Real Estate News

The Austin-based real estate development firm has announced a minority ownership stake in a major luxury listing agency and has plans to launch a new brokerage team. At the end of this report, check out a list of commercial real estate brokerage firms in the metro. [...]

Austin has seen a building boom that was started by pandemic era trends, and some experts see that boom ending soon. Deals abound for renters who want to take advantage of the cycle change. Included with this story is access to ABJ's latest lists of multifamily development firms and new [...]

Housing experts chime in on what to expect in the coming year in this article that's part of a special report on the 2025 economic outlook of Austin. Included with this story is ABJ's ranking of neighborhoods adding the most homes. [...]

Each week we shine the spotlight on an influential Central Texan via our Journal Profile series, which aims to get well beyond someone's LinkedIn page or online bio. In this installment, we sat down with the 2025 president of the Austin Board of Realtors — a woman who has watched [...]

"For us as developers, it’s been challenging," he said. "We pay significant amounts upfront for the land, and development costs —materials and labor— continue to rise." [...]

States like Florida and California have seen insurance carriers pull out of their markets entirely while the cost of insurance and reinsurance continues to rise rapidly. [...]

The wildfires in L.A. are a stark reminder that homes in high-risk climate areas are likely to face major costs in the future. [...]

Looking past asbestos is one of several concessions millennials say they're willing to make to keep their dream of homeownership from slipping away. [...]

Construction has kicked off for a long-anticipated surf park in Austin. It's a partnership between Arizona-based Discovery Land Co. and Kelly Slater, perhaps the most famous surfer in the world. Take an aerial tour of construction in this article. [...]

The city back in 2016 adopted sweeping regulations to crack down on the short-term rental industry, but several court decisions have made a lot of those rules unenforceable. The city will spend the next few months updating its regulations for Airbnbs and other STRs throughout Austin. There's still time to [...]