Real Estate Blog

There are new worries of rising property valuations because county tax appraisers in Austin allegedly received price data on homes sold in 2018.

The Austin Board of Realtors claims that CoreLogic Inc., the vendor that runs the organization's multiple listing service for buying and selling homes, sold MLS data to the Travis Central Appraisal District.

In a May 2 message to members, ABOR said the “unauthorized access” to its MLS data was “newly discovered.” That could be a contractual violation,…

Backed by the state attorney general’s office, a new program will provide $12 million to local housing organizations outside of New York City.

The New York State Preservation Opportunity Program will help housing agencies and authorities develop strategic approaches to preserving existing affordable housing portfolios, Attorney General Letitia James said in a release.

“We must recognize the difficulties that housing authorities and agencies face in maintaining safe and decent affordable housing…

Late on the night of May 2, Austin City Council passed policy guidance for the next land development code, seen as a crucial way for the city to modernize and keep up with growth. While no one has reviewed the full document with all of Council's tweaks and amendments in a polished format, major business groups are already weighing in.

PALO PINTO — The Dallas developer of an upscale golfing community on the shores of Possum Kingdom Lake was cleared Friday of wrongdoing and won’t have to pay millions of dollars in damages to resort property owners who claimed they were harmed by a slew of alleged misdeeds spread over 20-plus years.

Mike Ward, the developer of the The Cliffs Resort at Possum Kingdom Lake, and several of his Dallas-based Double Diamond companies, were being sued in a case filed by property owners seeking millions…

The price wasn't revealed but based on the amount of real estate excise tax paid it was $45 million. That makes it the most expensive home sale ever in the Seattle area.

One of the rare grand estates in Shoreline's exclusive Highlands community has come on the market for $4.5 million.

This gracious place dates back to the late 1920s, and spans more than 3.24 acres of magnificent Olmsted-designed gardens with some of the original plantings still there, and a series of well-planned and beautifully restored water features that were built back in the 1920s, as well.

Doug and Susan Adkins, business and community leaders, are the owners of this painstakingly restored…

Larry Fitzgerald has sold his Paradise Valley home to a fellow professional athlete, according to the Arizona Republic.

Fitzgerald, who has spent his entire NFL career with the Arizona Cardinals, recently sold his 9,300-square-foot mansion to Aaron Michael Hicks, a baseball star who recently signed a $70 million contract extension with the New York Yankees.

Hicks began his career with the Minnesota Twins. Fitzgerald is a Minnesota native.

Hicks paid $4.65 million for the 12-bedroom residence,…

An 18-room mansion on Geneva Lake recently sold for $6.95 million, making it the highest-priced home sale in the seven-county Milwaukee region so far in 2019.

The estate is also the highest home sale price for a Lake Geneva-area home since March of 2018, said David Curry of Geneva Lakefront Realty, the real estate agent on the home sale.

The home, originally built in 2013 by Wilmette, Illinois-based Orren Pickell, spans nearly 11,000 square feet and features seven bedrooms, nine-and-a-half bathrooms,…

The developers have plans for a two-building, Class A distribution center in the southwest Valley city.

The 13,256-square-foot space, dedicated as “The Beauty Hub,” is divisible, and would sit on the second floor of the project, a high-traffic area with five skyway connections.