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Preparing to Buy a Home
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
November 15th, 2009 7:58 pm
Tagged with: arms, austin mls, austin real estate, homes, lending, loans, mortgage rate trends, real estate, realtor
Are you preparing to buy a home for the first time? Or have you closed on a number of homes in the past and are preparing to buy your next home? Regardless, you'll want to keep in mind the steps nec... [Read More]
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The Ripple Effect of Foreclosure
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
November 15th, 2009 7:42 pm
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, foreclosure, homeowners, housing prices, loan modification, property values
Having the bank seize your home is nobody's idea of a good time. A word that was hardly part of the American vernacular two years ago, foreclosure is all too common these days. While the number of h... [Read More]
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Crazy Weather from Coast to Coast
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
November 15th, 2009 7:19 pm
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, central texas drought, drought, el nino, flooding, lake levels, texas, weather
After an exceptionally hot, dry summer, the rain has finally come to Central Texas. Just how much rain will it take to alleviate the current drought conditions? Considering this is the worst drought... [Read More]
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Storm Clouds on the Solar Horizon
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
November 5th, 2009 8:42 pm
Tagged with: austin energy, austin mls, austin real estate, green technology, solar array, solar energy, solar panel, solar rebates
This is the conundrum of doing good things for the environment: How do you embrace green energy without the old technology providers becoming broke and obsolete in the process? That is the dilemma f... [Read More]
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Looking at Executive Compensation and the Great Recession
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
November 5th, 2009 8:39 pm
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, bailout funds, executive compnesation, financial risk, great recession, main street, mortgage interest rates, wall street
The fact is that the financial meltdown, now widely known as the Great Recession, started on Wall Street. It is also a fact that the meltdown quickly reverberated off the pavement of Main Street in t... [Read More]
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The Income Gap Widens
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
November 1st, 2009 8:08 pm
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, economy, government, great recession, gross domestic product, income, income gap, politics, unemployment rate
The Great Recession is not the great American equalizer after all. It's been widely reported recently that this recession hit middle and low income families the hardest, while the wealthy have contin... [Read More]
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Why Recession Recovery Will Be Slow
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
October 24th, 2009 10:25 pm
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, consumer spending, credit, economy, housing, recession recovery, unemployment
Austin is one of 79 metro areas across the country to be officially out of the recession, according to Moody's. Although the state of Texas is still considered to be suffering the constraints of the... [Read More]
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Making a Dent in Mountains of Debt
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
October 16th, 2009 3:42 am
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, credit counseling, debt consolidation, debt relief, debt settlement, personal debt
One of the reasons given over and over for the slow recovery from this recession is the amount of debt so many Americans are buried under. The soaring house values of just two years ago made people f... [Read More]
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The Great Recession Has Been a Bumpy Ride
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
October 16th, 2009 3:38 am
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, economic recovery, home resales, housing, real estate, recession, stock market, unemployment
It is hard to believe just two years ago in October the Dow Jones industrial set a record high of 14,164. According to the Associated Press, just one year after that it was at 8,451 in mid October 2... [Read More]
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Energy Efficiency Can Start at Home
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
October 7th, 2009 10:50 am
Tagged with: austin energy, austin mls, austin real estate, energy audit, energy efficiency, programable thermostats, refrigerator recycling
Now that long hot summer is over, it's time to reset the thermostat. While there are still plenty of warm days ahead--one of the great things about living in Austin--we hopefully won't be breaking an... [Read More]
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Mortgage Rates Stay Down
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
September 14th, 2009 11:21 pm
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, economy, historical mortage rates, lending, loans, mortgage, mortgage rates, real estate
There were some expectations that mortgage rates would fall this week. Instead rates not only did not rise but fell slightly this week. The 30 year rate fell from 5.08 to 5.07 hitting a new low for... [Read More]
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Getting Office Space on a Budget
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Joe Cline
August 30th, 2009 9:29 am
Tagged with: austin mls, austin real estate, rollingwood texas real estate
An office business center is a shared office facility or series of facilities, fully equipped, staffed and furnished to need. Based on a monthly market value, a person or small business can rent a facility or office of this nature.
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Fannie and Freddie Mac Programs Help Struggling Homeowners
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
August 29th, 2009 6:26 pm
Tagged with: austin mls, economy, fannie mae, foreclosure, freddie mac, hud, poverty, real estate
In March of this year, the Obama Administration authorized a new federal program to help stabilize the housing industry. The feds poured a mere $75 billion into the Making Home Affordable (MHA) mortg... [Read More]
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Mortgage Rates Hold Steady
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
August 29th, 2009 6:00 pm
Tagged with: austin mls, economy, homes, housing market, interest rates, lending, loans, mortgage interest rates, real estate
For the most part mortgage rates held steady this week after dropping sharply last week. The 30 year rate rose slightly from 5.12 to 5.14 after dropping from 5.29 the week before. The 15 year rate r... [Read More]
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The Why and the How-to of Real Estate Investment
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Joe Cline
August 15th, 2009 12:31 am
Tagged with: austin mls, austin texas realtors, rollingwood real estate
These days, Wall Street and the stock market make people a little wary. The idea of investing your money in something that ‘roller-coasters’ up and down on a regular basis doesn’t exactly sound, well, sound.
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