Travis County

Bad News for Collin County Residents: You Can’t Afford to Live There Anymore

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / June 29, 2022 /

crunched the numbers — mostly median home price and median income — and found that, by and large, the county is no longer affordable for current Collin County residents.

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Did Elon Musk Offhandedly Drive Up Home Prices in Austin? We’d Like to Think So

By Marlin Weso / March 22, 2021 /

In a podcast interview last month, Elon Musk told Joe Rogan that Austin had the potential to be the “biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years.”

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Is Full Disclosure Coming? Austin Sues State Over Property Tax Appraisals

By Joanna England / August 27, 2015 /

The end of sales price non-disclosure might be near, if the suit filed by the City of Austin against the Texas comptroller’s office is any indication. Austin Mayor Steve Adler, who submitted the 10-page suit on Monday, argued that the ad-valorem taxation system is unconstitutional because it isn’t “equal and uniform.” Texas is one of…

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Lance Armstrong Tells All to Oprah: A Look at the Tour De France Winner’s Winning Real Estate Portfolio

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2013 /

Down in Austin, reporters are camped out in front of Lance Armstrong’s 8000 square foot, Spanish-style villa on one acre with tall stone walls and iron gates, awaiting a glimpse or even a quote after his news shattering interview with Oprah Winfrey.

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Lance Armstrong Tells All to Oprah: A Look at the Tour De France Winner's Winning Real Estate Portfolio

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2013 /

Down in Austin, reporters are camped out in front of Lance Armstrong’s 8000 square foot, Spanish-style villa on one acre with tall stone walls and iron gates, awaiting a glimpse or even a quote after his news shattering interview with Oprah Winfrey.

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