Luxe Austin Homes - December, 2025

"Home prices in these ZIP codes have crossed the $1M threshold"

Austin Business Journal writes, "Home prices have soared since the pandemic, and that's led to a surge in ZIP codes where prices are regularly eclipsing the $1 million mark.

Typical home value topped $1 million in 913 ZIP codes across America this fall, with many of those markets seeing home values more than double compared to pre-pandemic figures, according to an analysis of data from Zillow Inc. by The Business Journals.

The analysis found typical home prices in 547 ZIP codes crossed the $1,000,000 threshold since 2019 — including 37 that crossed the threshold between 2024 and 2025.

The gains have been lucrative for sellers, but they also reflect what has become a historic housing-affordability crisis in markets across the country.

Among…

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"Icon building 3D-printed homes in luxury Lake Travis development"

Austin Business Journal shares, "Icon Technology Inc., a 3D-printing construction technology company, has delivered its first home in a luxury neighborhood on the shores of Lake Travis.

Icon began construction of five 3D-printed homes in The Canyon Club, a 60-acre project being developed by Prasso Ventures north of Spicewood at 122 Shoreline Road, in April. The first 3,400-square-foot home was substantially completed in October, an Icon representative confirmed, though there was some final work on the home that occurred through December.

This project underscores how quickly Icon homes can be 3D-printed, and the company continues to build more. Their homes have been cropping up across the metro in recent years — notably within East…

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"Thriving Austin neighbor named No. 5 best Texas city to move to"

CultureMap Austin reports, "Several Austin neighbors have been deemed the best Texas cities to move to, with one booming city — Leander — coming in at No. 5.

Advisors at ConsumerAffairs, a customer review and news platform, ranked the 50 most populated Texas cities across five main categories — affordability, safety, economy, health care and education, and quality of life — to determine which were the best places to move to. Each city was given a score out of 100 possible points.

The top four best places to move to in Texas are all located in Dallas-Fort Worth: Allen (No .1), Frisco (No. 2), Plano (No. 3), and McKinney (No. 4). Leander rounded out the top five, and Round Rock appeared at No. 9.

In the safety category, Leander topped the list,…

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"A century of growth: How ABoR is shaping the future of housing in Central Texas"

As 2025 comes to a close, Central Texas continues to be a place where people want to live, work, innovate, and build their futures. But the same growth that fuels our economy is also putting immense pressure on something fundamental to our region’s long-term stability: housing affordability.

A recent Austin Business Journal survey, commissioned by the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR), makes this reality impossible to ignore. More than half of business leaders ranked housing affordability and availability among the top three issues facing Austin, with property taxes close behind. These findings reflect a broader reality across our region. An overwhelming 61 percent of respondents believe homeownership has become less affordable in recent years, with…

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"Redfin predicts housing market ‘cool off’ in the Austin metro in 2026"

AUSTIN (KXAN) writes, "The U.S. Housing market may enter a “great reset” on home prices in 2026, according to a report from the real estate company Redfin.

“It won’t be a quick price correction, and it won’t be a recession,” the report states. “Instead, the Great Housing Reset will be a years-long period of gradual increases in home sales and normalization of prices as affordability gradually improves. It will start next year, with incomes rising faster than home prices for a prolonged period for the first time since the Great Recession era [2008].”

The report was written by Redfin’s Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather and Head of Economics Research Chen Zhao.

Zhao and Fairweather made 11 predictions in the report, most of which focused on the…

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"Inside Paseo, Rainey Street's newest mixed-use tower"

Austin Business Journal writes, "LV Collective contends multifamily developers can learn a lot from the student housing world.

Student housing "is more innovative because when we start developing, our demographics are 14 (years old), and by the time we deliver, they're 18 or 19," said David Kanne, CEO of LV Collective, a national developer of both student and multifamily housing.

"We have to be thinking so far in the future that we are accustomed to constantly improving and dialing in, coming from that world," he said. "We force ourselves to think ahead … and because we have to get so far ahead of our consumer, we are always thinking way further ahead than most people that are doing the same product.”

Kanne made the comments while walking…

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"8 Austin eateries make OpenTable list of 2025's top 100 restaurants"

CultureMap Austin shares, "Restaurant reservations and reviews platform OpenTable has examined its data to determine the top 100 restaurants in the country for 2025, and Austin has an enormous slice of the pie — especially when it comes to Texas. Austin was represented eight times on the list, followed by one each in Houston and Dallas.

OpenTable emphasizes that professional critics didn't compile this list. Instead, it's based on more than 10 million reviews by verified OpenTable diners along with other metrics. A restaurant had to have a minimum threshold of reviews to be considered — so no matter how great a new restaurant is, it might be too early to count it — and further data included the percentage of five-star reviews, number of alerts set,…

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"Austin ranked No. 2 buyer’s market among major U.S. metros"

CultureMap Austin reports, "If you’re shopping for a home in the Austin area, this might be a great time to make a purchase.

A new report from residential real estate platform Redfin ranks Austin as the second-best buyer’s market among the country’s 50 largest metro areas. In a buyer’s market, prospective homeowners wield an advantage over sellers, strengthening their ability to score a bargain.

San Antonio pulled just ahead of Austin to claim the top spot on the list.

The report shows that in October, there were 117 percent more sellers than buyers in the San Antonio area — the highest percentage across the 50 biggest markets. In second place: the Austin metro area, where there were 115 percent more sellers than buyers. Across the country,…

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"Austin vs. Nashville: How Luxury Living Measures Up in 2 Booming Housing Markets"

Realtor.com writes, "Located some 900 miles apart, Austin, TX, and Nashville, TN, have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic era as thriving boomtowns with strong job growth, rapid in-migration, and high quality of life—so it comes as no surprise that both metros now rank among the nation's top luxury housing markets. 

Each city attracts throngs of wealthy buyers looking to snap up trophy properties in amenity-rich communities. However, according to the latest research from Realtor.com®, Nashville and Austin's price trends and inventory shifts tell two different stories. 

The main difference between the two popular Southern luxury markets lies in their stages of maturity, explains Realtor.com senior economist Anthony Smith: Nashville's high-end…

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