Real Estate - Hill Country Lakeway Austin TX Homes for Sale are jumping off the MLS!! That means, houses are selling throughout the Austin TX area!!
Are you still on the fence? How could you possibly still be on the fence right now?
I mean, there is FREE money being handed out right and left, if you qualify.
Does $8000 not mean anything to you? How about a potential $6500? With money like that being handed to you, seriously, how could you be on the fence?
Here are two great blog posts that explain the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit along with the Move-Up buyer tax credit.
Now, after reading those two posts, and learning about how your Federal Government is going further into debt to give you FREE money upon buying a new home, could you please speak in English, slowly, and using small words, and tell me the reasons why you're not ready to buy?
I'm listening... uh, huh... go on...
All I'm hearing are excuses and not reasons... yep, another excuse...
Get off the fence, give me a call or shoot me an email, and if we can't get you into a new house before the New Year, let's get you into a new house before this FREE money is gone, which is April 30, 2010 (closed by June 30, 2010).
**Are You Packed Yet?**
Donna Harris, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Austin Skyline
www.DonnaHomes.com
Donna@DonnaHomes.com
Austin TX Real Estate and the surrounding areas of Lakeway, Bee Cave, West Lake Hills, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Spicewood, Circle-C, Steiner Ranch, and everywhere in between... Hill Country Austin TX Real Estate and beyond. Whether you're buying or selling an Austin home, I'll be with you every step of the way.
For real time Austin TX listings, click here.
** #1 Agent in my Office for all of 2008 **
Copyright© 2009 By Donna Harris, All Rights Reserved. You may re-blog with links back to this post.
* Are you Seriously Still on the Fence? Excuses excuses excuses... * was first published on donnahomesblog.com
I'm not sure this tree knows what season it is. This tree is in Falconhead Bee Cave TX, but this is what most all the trees look like in and around Austin TX right now. It's been unseasonably warm, and the trees aren't sure to change colors and drop their leaves yet...
**Are You Packed Yet?**
Donna Harris, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Austin Skyline
www.DonnaHomes.com
Donna@DonnaHomes.com
Austin TX Real Estate and the surrounding areas of Lakeway, Bee Cave, West Lake Hills, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Spicewood, Circle-C, Steiner Ranch, and everywhere in between... Hill Country Austin TX Real Estate and beyond. Whether you're buying or selling an Austin home, I'll be with you every step of the way.
For real time Bee Cave Austin TX listings, click here.
** #1 Agent in my Office for all of 2008 **
Copyright© 2009 By Donna Harris, All Rights Reserved. You may re-blog with links back to this post.
* Wordless Wednesday - Confused Trees Not Changing Colors * was first published on donnahomesblog.com
Seven Oaks - Austin TX- Hill Country Real Estate at its Finest is a very unique community just West of Austin. Seven Oaks is not within the city limits, sitting between Austin and Bee Cave TX on FM 2244- Bee Caves Rd.
Because Seven Oaks does not sit within the city limits of any city, there are no city taxes. Therefore, the tax rate is low, only a mere 1.8626%.
What does Seven Oaks have to offer? Look at these pictures! Seven Oaks offers topography like no other. There are hills within the hills. There are views as far as you can see. There are natural stone retaining walls. There is privacy with gates if you want privacy, or there is a community feel if you want to know your neighbors.
The market in Seven Oaks tells an interesting story. In the average prices in and around Austin TX, most buyers look for new and newer homes along with bigger and more features within a home. That's not what the multi-million dollar buyer is looking for...
The multi-million dollar buyer is looking for pre-owned and a "deal". Home owners have been in these homes and paid such and such price for them. Builders are still building and putting more and more money into the homes, and paying today's prices for the materials, so they ask for more.
In the past six months, Seven Oaks has only sold ONE brand new home and it was in July. The other six sales were all preowned homes. The average sold home had 4.85 beds, 4.71 baths, 3.14 living areas and 6250 sqft built in 2005. This average home sold for $1,608,057.
Currently, there are 16 homes actively for sale in Seven Oaks. These homes average 5.125 beds, 5.25 baths, 4.31 living areas and 7625 sqft built in 2008. This average home is asking $2,790,906.
Yikes! Can you see the differences??
The active listings are asking more than $1M more than the average property that sold. Granted, in the past six months, there was a property that sold for $2.75M along with another at $2.1M, so there are buyers in the higher range, but for the most part, buyers are toning down what they're buying and are looking for resale homes in this price range.
This is definitely not the norm in Austin TX Hill Country real estate.
**Are You Packed Yet?**
Donna Harris, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Austin Skyline
www.DonnaHomes.com
Donna@DonnaHomes.com
Austin TX Real Estate and the surrounding areas of Lakeway, Bee Cave, West Lake Hills, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Spicewood, Circle-C, Steiner Ranch, and everywhere in between... Hill Country Austin TX Real Estate and beyond. Whether you're buying or selling an Austin home, I'll be with you every step of the way.
For real time Seven Oaks Austin TX listings, click here.
** #1 Agent in my Office for all of 2008 **
Copyright© 2009 By Donna Harris, All Rights Reserved. You may re-blog with links back to this post.
* Seven Oaks - Austin TX - Hill Country Real Estate at its Finest * was first published on donnahomesblog.com
Property Tax Arbitration - Property Tax Values - Austin TX - is the final step to take when a home owner is unhappy with their property tax value. I am an Arbitrator for the State of Texas' Comptroller's office. I find it very interesting to hear home owners' views as to why their properties are valued incorrectly.
Here's an example from a couple of weeks ago of why would you go to Property Tax Arbitration...
These home owners were given an assessment of over $1.07 Million. They went to the Appraisal Review Board at the Travis Central Appraisal District. Without any kind of deliberation by the panel chosen, they arbitrarily came up with a value of $962k plus some change. How did they come up with this number? Who knows, as there is no explanation on the recording, just a 3 second time period where the panel chair said they're going to deliberate, to when the first panelist says $962k followed by a second panelist saying he agreed "exactly".
With that, the home owners knew they needed to take things further, and they filed for Property Tax Arbitration with the State of Texas Comptroller's Office. The home owners read my blog post about Property Tax Arbitration that explained the process, but instead of choosing me to be the Arbitrator, they chose me to represent them.
We met a couple of times to go over what happened at the Appraisal Review Board, as well as at the house so I could see the condition to be able to compare the property to the ones the Travis Central Appraisal District was looking at. We then went and looked at three homes that were currently on the market since there wasn't much sales history in the immediate neighborhood.
Two weeks ago, we met with the Travis Central Appraisal Districts' Chief Appraiser to come to an agreement. After meeting for about 45 minutes, I helped these home owners go from $1.07M to $962K down to $850k! They did the first adjustment on their own, but between the $962k and the $850k, I helped them save approximately $2240 for the year. From the original appraised value, that's a savings of almost $4800.
Some people don't think Arbitration is worth it, but $4800 is not chump change, and neither is $2440! Because the new value was in favor of the home owner, they got back $450 of their $500 fee for filing for Property Tax Arbitration. They were up over $5200!!! I would love to have an extra $5200 in my pocket each year!
If you question your Property Tax Values and you can't get a satisfactory result from the Appraisal Review Board, don't be scared to take it to the next level. I can either represent you for the Arbitration, or you can choose me to be the unbiased, mutually accepted Arbitrator to preside over your case. I work with Property Tax Arbitration cases in the Austin TX and Dallas TX areas.
**Are You Packed Yet?**
Donna Harris, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Austin Skyline
www.DonnaHomes.com
Donna@DonnaHomes.com
Austin TX Real Estate and the surrounding areas of Lakeway, Bee Cave, West Lake Hills, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Spicewood, Circle-C, Steiner Ranch, and everywhere in between... Hill Country Austin TX Real Estate and beyond. Whether you're buying or selling an Austin home, I'll be with you every step of the way.
For real time Austin TX listings, click here.
** #1 Agent in my Office for all of 2008 **
Copyright© 2009 By Donna Harris, All Rights Reserved. You may re-blog with links back to this post.
* Property Tax Arbitration - Property Tax Values - Austin TX - Final Step when Fighting Taxes * was first published on donnahomesblog.com
Falconhead West - Bee Cave - Austin TX - has a lot of new construction homes for sale in all different stages right now. In a series of posts, I'm going to show you pictures and describe a little of what is going on.
Many people will never have the opportunity to build a brand new house, and many who do, never pay attention to the process it takes to get that house to stand there for many years to come.
Falconhead West in Bee Cave TX used to be a Ranch, called Spillman Ranch. Much of the land was just acres upon acres of trees.
Now, we're ready to pour the foundation! In Falconhead West, where the average sized home is about 3500 sqft, the typical slab pour is approximately six concrete trucks. They bring them in one at a time, pouring the concrete in an even fashion. The sixth truck is mostly the "top off" truck to make sure it's level throughout.
The slab usually sits for a couple of days before they immediately start putting up the frame. They measure the house from several different places and then start laying out the wood.
Within a few hours, it could already look like this...
The first floor frame can usually go up in a day or two. Sometimes it amazes me how I drive by in the morning and there is no frame, and by the time I drive by in the late afternoon, voila, there's a frame!
Check back often as I continue my building series of New Construction Homes for Sale in Falconhead West - Bee Cave - Austin TX.
**Are You Packed Yet?**
Donna Harris, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Austin Skyline
www.DonnaHomes.com
Donna@DonnaHomes.com
Austin TX Real Estate and the surrounding areas of Lakeway, Bee Cave, West Lake Hills, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Spicewood, Circle-C, Steiner Ranch, and everywhere in between... Hill Country Austin TX Real Estate and beyond. Whether you're buying or selling an Austin home, I'll be with you every step of the way.
For real time Falconhead West Bee Cave Austin TX listings, click here.
** #1 Agent in my Office for all of 2008 **
Copyright© 2009 By Donna Harris, All Rights Reserved. You may re-blog with links back to this post.
* New Construction Homes for Sale - Falconhead West - Bee Cave - Austin TX - Part 3 * was first published on donnahomesblog.com
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