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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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"This Austin-area town has the No. 1 hottest U.S. ZIP code this fall"

CultureMap Austin shares, "A recent analysis of American relocation trends has revealed the small town of Dale outside Austin was the No. 1 hottest ZIP code for movers nationwide in October 2025.

Dale's 78616 ZIP code topped MovingPlace's new list ranking the U.S. cities with the highest number of new movers per 1,000 current residents during the month of October.

According to the study's data, 961,650 moves took place across the nation last month. Dale saw 15.2 moves per 1,000 residents in October, the highest out of all U.S. cities.

Dale, an unincorporated community, is located 34 miles southeast of Austin in Caldwell County. It was praised as a highly sought-after locale for movers who want to live in between Austin and San Antonio while…

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"Here's how airplane routes and noise affect home prices"

Austin Business Journal writes, "The noise from airplanes can cost homeowners thousands of dollars when they sell.

A working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed changes in flight paths and overall airplane noise in residential neighborhoods near several airports and the prices homes secured when they subsequently sold. 

The research found that for every 1% increase in airplane noise exposure for a home, that home sold for 0.2% to 0.3% less than comparable homes without an increase in airplane noise. That implies that for every 1-decibel increase in average noise, property values drop by 0.6% to 1%. 

“The magnitude of our estimates suggests that aircraft noise remains a significant disamenity for households,…

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"Delayed Jobs Data Drops Surprises as Housing Market Gains Momentum"

Realtor.com reports, "After weeks of delayed data, we finally have an update on the labor market—and it’s not exactly what most people expected.

Data that was delayed by the federal government shutdown is starting to trickle out. We learned that hiring was more robust than many expected in September, with 119,000 jobs added in the month—largely in the health care, food services, and social assistance industries. Still, some sectors saw job declines, including transportation and warehousing and the federal government.

Although government data on unemployment insurance claims has been remarkably stable, private data shows a jump in layoff announcements in 2025. Against this hiring and separations backdrop, the unemployment rate trended up to 4.4%…

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"Number of houses for sale in Austin area reaches highest since 2022"

CultureMap Austin writes, "The number of houses for sale in the Austin metro has reached its highest level since 2022, and median home prices remained stable for the seventh month in a row, according to the October 2025 Central Texas Housing Report from Unlock MLS and the Austin Board of Realtors.

The median sale price for a home in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro area came out to $439,000 last month, only 1.4 percent more than the median sale prices in October 2024. Home sales dipped 9.6 percent from last year with 2,238 residential homes sold in the metro. More than 3,600 new listings were added to the market in October, which is 7.9 percent higher than last year, bringing the total number of active listings to 13,227 homes.

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