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…

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…

How About a Spa 24/7 for a Vacation Home? Living at Austin’s Barton Creek Resort & Spa Is Life Just Like That

By Candy Evans / May 17, 2012 /

You know that feeling when you sink into a wonderfully padded (and warmed) massage table, the scent of Hill Country lavender in the air, relaxing soft music that takes you away from life as you know it for 50 blissful minutes? Wonderful, isn’t it? Recently, we stayed at the Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin…

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…

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…