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Austin Real Estate Update & Newsletter | March 2017
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| I hope this newsletter finds you well. This edition includes my latest Featured Listing, market updates about both BartonPlace and Spring Condominium, as well as Austin news and events - enjoy! 
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Just Listed - Private Two Bedroom Residence + 55SF Storage!
Unit #1105 - 2 bedrooms, 2 baths - $479,000
Private BartonPlace residence now available! End-cap floor plan offers large, open kitchen-living area overlooking the community garden and landscaped courtyard privacy for the bedrooms. Beautifully maintained residence showcases upgrades throughout, including warm pendant lighting over kitchen island, pull-out pantry, upgraded Bosch range, and custom-tailored window coverings. Two reserved PREMIUM garage spaces PLUS 55SF garage storage unit! Live where Austin plays with the hike and bike trail out your front door and Zilker Park and wonderful local restaurants out the back door along famed Barton Springs Rd. Welcome Home!
Rare 2D Floor Plan - 1,133 SF
Contact me for more information or to schedule a private showing - l
et's talk soon!
Audra Smith
REALTOR, CLHMS, GRI, CNE
(512) 247-8788
Audra@AustinRealEstate.com
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Live the best of both worlds at BartonPlace - see below for current availability:
One Bedroom:
Two Bedrooms:
For more information, or to schedule a personal tour, please contact:
REALTOR, CLHMS, GRI, CNE
(512) 247-8788
Audra@AustinRealEstate.com
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Live in the middle of it all, above it all at Spring - see below for current availability:
Two Bedrooms:
For more information, or to schedule a personal tour, please contact:
REALTOR, CLHMS, GRI, CNE
(512) 247-8788
Audra@AustinRealEstate.com
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ABOR Market Update: Central Texas housing market starts 2017 strong with gains in home sales volume, prices
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AUSTIN, Texas - Feb. 16, 2017 - Single-family home sales posted strong gains throughout the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in January, according to a new and expanded Central Texas Housing Market Report released today by the Austin Board of REALTORS®.
Brandy Guthrie, 2017 President of the Austin Board of REALTORS® commented, "Consecutive years of strong housing demand and sales growth throughout Central Texas have significantly changed housing market conditions in Austin and the surrounding region. The radius of local market areas with critically low housing inventory levels has expanded out from Austin into surrounding counties, shifting the price range of available homes in local communities upward."
Single-family home sales in the Austin-Round Rock MSA increased 7.0 percent year-over-year in January 2017 to 1,549 home sales. In the city of Austin, single-family home sales jumped 9.8 percent annually to 469 home sales during the same time frame.
Housing inventory levels remained largely flat across the Austin-Round Rock MSA in January 2017, increasing 0.1 months to 2.0 months of inventory. Housing inventory levels in Williamson County and other markets are now on pace with housing inventory levels in the City of Austin, which remained unchanged in January 2017 at 1.4 months of inventory. The inventory of single-family homes priced under $250,000 is now less than 1.0 months of inventory in many local markets.
Area home prices continued to climb at a steady pace in January 2017. In the Austin-Round Rock MSA, median home price increased 9.8 percent year-over-year to $279,990, while the median price in the city of Austin increased 2.3 percent year-over-year to $312,000.
"The range of home prices available in local market areas are slowly trending upward, changing the local profile of what homes and price ranges are considered 'affordable'," added Guthrie. "Single-family homes priced for entry-level homebuyers are increasingly harder to find throughout the region."
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Zilker Kite Festival - March 5
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From: www.everfest.com
Go fly a kite at the Zilker Kite Festival, a cherished family-friendly event that takes place every year in the spring. Attendees gather at Zilker Park in the heart of downtown Austin to enjoy the colorful assortment of kites that fill the sky.
Guests of all ages can compete in a variety of kite-flying contests like Highest Angle Kite and Strongest Pulling Kite, with trophies awarded in each event. Buy a kite at the festival or make your own at the kite-making workshop. There are also tons of other fun activities for kids including rock wall climbing, bungee jumping and face painting, and a variety of food booths offer a sample of Austin's celebrated food scene.
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South by Southwest - March 10-19
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From: www.everfest.com
What started as a weekend music festival now sprawls across 10 days, encompassing music, technology and film; this is
South by Southwest (SXSW). Some may argue that this
Austin, Texas festival has lost its edge, but its massive influx of concerts, parties and conferences still draw tens of thousands of attendees. While SXSW does not favor the unprepared, it does reward the spontaneous. Decide who on the schedule you want to see, but don't be too attached to your plans-you never know when an invitation to an amazing showcase or surprise concert will come your way.
SWSX was originally conceived as an independent music showcase, where up-and-coming bands would try to woo prospective labels (the Southwest's answer to New York's New Music Seminar). The first was developed in 1987 by
Roland Swenson, Louis Black and
Nick Barbaro (a local writer, an editor and a publisher, respectively), who came up with the name as a play on Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. They expected a couple hundred people; nearly a thousand showed up.
In the last decade or so, the festival has expanded to include
film and
technology. The film program has become one of the nation's premier film festivals and runs nearly every day of SXSW (think of it like a domestic version of the
Cannes Film Festival). The tech community takes over SXSW for 5 days with Interactive, a series of conference and panels.
Six days of the festival are still devoted to music, though SXSW is no longer merely a showcase for new bands; super stars
Justin Timberlake and
Usher performed in 2013. Although these high-profile performances tend to steal the spotlight, SXSW is still a great place for young, hungry performers to make an impression. In past years, artists including John Mayer and James Blunt were "discovered" by label reps at SXSW performances.
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Now Open - Red Ash Italia
Influenced by the culinary traditions of Northern and Southern Italy, Red Ash features craft Italian cuisine expertly prepared by Owner and Executive Chef John Carver. The star of the Red Ash kitchen is the custom-built wood-burning grill, oven and plancha. Red ash is released from the live wood fires, which is the inspiration for the restaurant's name.
Chef Carver's menu features fresh handmade pastas, pristine seafood, locally sourced prime meats roasted on the wood-burning grill and plancha and an abundance of seasonal fresh vegetables. Elegant Italian desserts are prepared fresh daily in the Red Ash pastry kitchen. The wine list includes an array of specially selected Old and New World wines from the finest winemakers of Italy, Spain, France, Argentina, Chile, California, Oregon and Washington.
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