Texas Property Insider- Austin Real Estate and Texas Coastal Real Estate Blog

Welcome to Texas Property Insider. The purpose of this blog is to provide accurate and helpful information about market trends and issues important to property owners in Central Texas and on the Texas Coast. You hear a lot of talk out there. You see the statistics, read the stories in the newspaper and you see practitioners regurgitate those same stories and statistics. There is more information available then ever before. But why is it, even after all of the stories and pundits have had their say, you still feel you can’t grasp what’s really happening in the real estate market?


There is a lot more to it than simple statistics and market info. These numbers are helpful and vitally important, but if taken at face value they can be misleading, even deceiving. As Mark Twain once said, “There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics.” I created this blog to pull back the curtain on Texas real estate, interpret the market information and present it to you in a format that is both pithy and easy to digest.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Toll Brother Sees Large Jump in Contracts


Toll Brothers announced that contracts for its luxury homes in America for the three months ending October 31st has surged by 42% compared with a year earlier and we 17% higher than the same period in 2007.


These statistics are continued signs that the national housing market is starting to show signs of life. Austin has not been effected nearly as much as the rest of the country but strength in the national housing sector will inevitably help the Austin market. One of the major problems we have been encountering is out of state buyers looking to move to Texas who are constrained by their lagging local market and difficulty selling their current home. Any improvement to the national housing market will greatly benefit all the markets.


Toll Brothers has several communities in Austin including:


The Vistas at Lakeway- starting in the mid $200’s

The Vistas of Lake Travis- starting in the mid $300’s

The Ridge at Alta Vista- starting in the upper $600’s

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