Elon Musk

Elon Musk, Here’s Your Austin Pied-à-Terre

By Karen Eubank / October 2, 2021 /

There’s an adage that you hide in plain sight if you don’t want to be noticed. That’s why I think Elon needs this historic Austin pied-à-terre. He can keep his Starbase rental in South Texas, but everyone needs a place in Austin. Whether you are a tech-savvy entrepreneur, a celebrity, an athlete, or a politician,…

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CoreLogic Home Price Index Validates The Sudden Interest in Austin

By Marlin Weso / August 11, 2021 /

CoreLogic validated the incoming Austin converts in its recent Home Price Index. Austin’s year-over-year home prices rose 29.9 percent in June.

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New Texan Elon Musk Puts Himself in a Box, a Prefab One He Now Lives in

By Marlin Weso / July 5, 2021 /

Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO, is now an occupant in a $50,000 400-square-foot, foldable, prefabricated housing unit at Boca Chica, Texas, or Starbase as Musk refers to it.

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Good News For Austin Real Estate: Elon Musk Needs Double the Workforce

By Marlin Weso / April 1, 2021 /

If you needed encouragement to move to take advantage of the burgeoning Austin real estate market and needed a job, a billionaire’s tweet might give you that additional push. On Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a tweet: “Over 10,000 people are needed for Giga Texas just through 2022!” Already, Musk primed the market by…

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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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