Austin

Speaking of Lance Armstrong, Now You Can LEASE Sandra Bullock's Austin Crib for $8000k a Month!

By Candy Evans / January 18, 2013 /

The old news is Sandra Bullock’s home has been on the market down in Austin for  254 days, and it still on the market for $2,500,000. The new news: you can now lease Sandra’s house for $8000 a month. Stardom apparently is not as vital as good BBQ in Austin: as my fave Austin Realtor…

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Speaking of Lance Armstrong, Now You Can LEASE Sandra Bullock’s Austin Crib for $8000k a Month!

By Candy Evans / January 18, 2013 /

The old news is Sandra Bullock’s home has been on the market down in Austin for  254 days, and it still on the market for $2,500,000. The new news: you can now lease Sandra’s house for $8000 a month. Stardom apparently is not as vital as good BBQ in Austin: as my fave Austin Realtor…

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Glass in High Rises Problematic Elsewhere: Remember the W in Austin?

By Candy Evans / May 2, 2012 /

It wasn’t reflective heat, but Austin, our oh so ecologically correct sister city to the south, had major problemos last summer with the W Hotel and Residences last summer. The Austin-American Statesman found that Austin “does not insist on the safest kind of architectural glass for guardrails, or specifically, require engineering inspections of exterior balconies on the…

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Austin Report: Austin, Texas is Ablaze. Central Texas Home Sales Up 19 Percent Over 2010

By Candy Evans / November 21, 2011 /

Central Texas home sales are up 19% over the same time period last year, that’s the good news. Bad (maybe) news is, prices have declined. The median price of an Austin area home last month declined by 3 percent to $189,720, according to the Austin Board of Realtors. For the year, the area’s median home price remained…

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