Real Estate News

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 [...]

Residential properties could face a value correction of $1.2 trillion to $1.9 trillion if housing markets reprice to reflect threats posed by storms, subsidence, sea-level rise and wildfires. [...]

Today, we're looking at the Biden-era workplace reform efforts that will likely change under the incoming Trump administration, six major landlords that have been added to an antitrust lawsuit and a tech giant that's planning layoffs. But first, let's take a look at at how housing affordability changed in 2024. [...]

Santa Rita Ranch is located in Liberty Hill, the fastest-growing city in the metro with home prices starting significantly cheaper than in Austin. At the end of this report, check out a list of volume homebuilders in the region. [...]