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We have a full time staff of experts who specialize in Austin Property Management.

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Austin Real Estate. If you are looking for real estate in Austin, you've come to the right place. We specialize in real estate in Austin. Austin has the University of Texas, a great night life, and a very young and educated population. Did you know that the Austin real estate market is one of the hottest real estate markets in the U.S.? Many companies are opening new locations in Austin, Texas. Many companies are expanding their operations in Austin, Texas. Despite the downturn in the U.S. economy, the Austin real estate market not only survived, but is now making a strong come back.

Austin Options Realty specializes in real estate in Austin.

The weather today kinda sucks (cold and rainy), but it's always a great day to buy real estate in Austin.

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Avalon Pflugerville TX - Come experience a real sense of community at Avalon. This spacious community is designed with open spaces and nature in mind, and offers over 150 acres of greenbelt along with dozens of miles of hiking and biking trails winding through several parks throughout the development.

Avalon Pflugerville is just a few miles north of Austin, Texas, and is only minutes away from several major high-tech businesses including Dell, IBM and Samsung, which means more time to spend working and with your family and less time stuck in traffic.

The designers at Avalon are strongly committed to the idea of developing a community that was created around shared open spaces. The idea is to nestle neighborhoods into a series of parks and green spaces, and sprinkle in trials and other public facilities at various strategic locations in order to produce a useful design that promotes interaction and a real sense of community.

The custom-built Homes for Sale in Avalon Pflugerville have been constructed to exacting standards by major builders like Grand Haven Homes, Pulte Homes and Standard Pacific Homes, and will offer comfortable, energy-efficient living for decades to come.

The Avalon Amenities Center offers a wide range of activities for all interests, including tennis courts, a fitness room, as well as a swim center with swimming pool and wading pool. You can even drive your cart directly from your garage to the course for a round of golf as the challenging Blackhawk Golf Course is just to the west of the Avalon development.

Schools are, of course, a major factor for families in deciding on a new home, but Avalon is located in the well-regarded Pflugerville School District so you need have no worries. Riojas Elementary is a brand new schools just entering its second year in 2012. Both Murchison Elementary School and Kelly Lane Middle School were ranked as Exemplary Schools by the Texas Education Agency in 2010, and KLMS has been the recipient of numerous achievement awards in the last few years, including winning the state Science Olympiad competition in 2009.

The Stone Hill Town Center is a one million square foot retail center that is only minutes away from Avalon Pflugerville Real Estate. Major retailers like Home Depot, Super-Target, Cinemark Theater, Beall’s, Besy Buy and a 24-Hour Fitness Club all have flagship operations at Stone Hill Town Center.

If you enjoy fine food, there are a number of excellent restaurants in the neighborhood including Johnny Carino’s and the Texas Roadhouse. And for the more adventurous, all the excitement of downtown Austin is just a few miles down I35.

There is lots of other entertainment nearby. The Round Rock Express baseball team (minor league) call the Dell Diamond Stadium home, and offer family nights on a regular basis to attract the local crowd. Inner Space Caverns (located 15 minutes north in Georgetown) is one of the largest public caves in the Southwest U.S. and offers tours daily.

The selection of homes in Avalon Pflugerville is still good, but the best locations are moving quickly, so you would be well advised to plan to come by for a visit in the near future. Check out the selection of currently available homes at PvilleHomes.com or call us at (512) 554-8554 to come see what a real community is like for yourself. Read our main Homes in Pflugerville blog here.

One of my favorite tools to determine market activity is Pending Sales. While new listings and sold homes are good measures of market activity, pending tells me what is IMMEDIATELY happening as it is most recent information. Just listed is not sales data, and just closed is 30-60 days after the executed contract. Pending is NOW. For other trends you may want to read: Housing Market Report - Austin, Texas (03.09.12)

I like this graphical interface as you can boldly see that Austin, in general, is doing very well. There is a 28.3% increase in Pending Sales this January compared to 2011. Looking over at the data to the right you can see that spread over a year, the increase averaged 10.3% increase.

More interesting, look at the line graph below and see the 6 year sales trend. We hit a peak in 2007-2008 then hit bottom in 2010. There is a slight improvement in 2011, then BOOM! That pent up demand from a three year lull resulted in a big improvement for 2012.

If you've been on the fence about buying a home, waiting for the last shoe to drop, it dropped. From this point forward, my Magic 8 ball says the market will continue to improve so there's no more time to waste. Call Cathy Bureau to sell or buy a home in the Austin-San Antonio Corridor.

For national information you may refernce this inforgraphic or refer to this blog. Real Estate Values.

Area Market Statistics

The media has a tendency to focus on national reports which may or may not reflect on the market activity in your own community. Recently I expanded my service area to include the Austin metro area to better serve my clients. In the 6 years I have helped people buy and sell San Antonio Homes, I have found several clients have a need to be in the Austin and San Antonio area, the I-35 corridor. By being a member of both boards I can now serve Austin, San Antonio, and the metro areas in bewtween: Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, and New Braunfels.In the coming month I will be providing direct links for searches in those areas with monthly market reports.

In my MLS research of the market trends in Austin I came across this report provided by the Austin Board of Realtors.

The Austin area home sales volume is up by 10% comparing January 2011 to January 2012.

Austin Board of REALTORS® releases real estate statistics for January

AUSTIN, Texas – February 21, 2012 – According to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) report released today by the Austin Board of REALTORS®, 1,051 single-family homes were sold in the Austin area in January 2012, which is 10 percent more than January 2011. During the same time period, the median price for Austin-area homes was $176,550, seven percent less than the same month of the prior year.

Leonard Guerrero, Chairman of the Austin Board of REALTORS®, commented, “It is encouraging to see last year’s momentum continue into the New Year. January marks the eighth straight month in which the volume of home sales in Austin has outpaced the previous year and the inventory of homes has decreased.”

Austin-area homes spent an average of 85 days on the market in January 2012, eight days less than the same month of the prior year. Compared to January 2011, the Austin market also featured six percent fewer new listings, 19 percent fewer active listings and 16 percent more pending sales in January 2012.

The Austin market had 4.1 months of inventory in January 2012, or 1.4 months less than January 2011. The figure, unchanged from December 2011, marks the lowest inventory level the Austin market has seen since the organization began tracking the statistic in January 2009.

January 2012 Statistics

• 1,051 – Single-family homes sold, 10 percent more than January 2011.
  
• $176,550 – Median price for single-family homes, seven percent less than January 2011.
  
• 85 – Average number of days that single-family homes spent on the market, eight days less than January 2011.
  
• 2,266 – New single-family home listings on the market, six percent less than January 2011.
  
• 6,557 – Active single-family home listings on the market, 19 percent less than January 2011.
  
• 1,638 – Pending sales for single-family homes, 16 percent more than January 2011.
  
• 4.1 – Months of inventory* of single-family homes, 1.4 months less than January 2011.
  
• $236,043,039 – Total dollar volume of single-family properties sold, one percent less than January 2011.

For national information you may refernce this inforgraphic or refer to this blog. Real Estate Values.