In April, we saw the number of sales decline by 90 from last year. That’s about what we’d expect to see during a pandemic. With 123 homes pending as of 5/1 things should start looking better going forward. 123 homes pending with only 88 homes active means we still have a strong seller’s market. However, we are seeing homes that are not selling. Although we are optimistic, we have definitely entered a more professional market and who you hire to sell your home does matter. In April the lowest priced home was in Cedar Park Town Center and the highest priced home was a 5,451 SF home on 4 acres located between Vista Ridge and 183A.

As always, we're always ready to work for you and your family. Whenever you are ready to talk about your home…

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In mid-March the entire market freaked out. Buyers cancelled contracts and lenders changed underwriting guidelines. We recommended several of our owner-occupied listings take their houses off the market temporarily. I had been tracking the rolling 7-day average of homes going under contract to gauge the direction of the market. To give you an idea of how bad a shock we went through and how fast it happened here are the number of homes that went under contract in the entire Austin MLS the previous 7 days…

That was a huge drop and we’ve almost recovered. We are still off from this time last year by but transactions happen every day and things are heating up.

Despite the overall number of houses selling being down, we are not…

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When you hire a real estate agent to sell your home you have every right to expect the brokerage the agent works for has your best interests in mind at all times. How will you feel when you find out that might not be true? 

It’s basic Economics 101 that you will receive the best price for your home by advertising it with the widest net. You want to advertise your home to all the real estate agents in your area and as many buyers as possible who are in the market for a home like yours.

What if I told you we are hearing about more and more real estate brokerages that are trying to sell their listings by only advertising them to the agents that work for that specific office?

Why would they do that?

In some instances, it’s because a…

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