Tagged: home prices

Austin area home sales jumped by 32 percent in April compared to the same month last year. The Austin Board of Realtors says 2,563 single-family homes were sold last month.

That marks a nine-year high for the month of April, and it represents the twenty-third straight month of year-over-year sales increases. 

The Texas real estate market rang out 2012 on a high note, according to the latest reading from the Texas Association of Realtors. It says 56,488 single-family were sold across the state in the fourth quarter of last year. That's an increase of almost 20 percent over the same period in 2011. 

Construction could begin on 8,800 to 9,600 new single-family homes in 2013, according to an annual forecast by Eldon Rude, the Austin analyst with the real estate tracking firm MetroStudy. Rude delivered his forecast this morning before a group of realtors and home builders. The growth would represent an increase of 10 to 20 percent. 

New data released today shows homes in the Austin, Round Rock and San Marcos areas are increasing in value.

The report by CoreLogic – a real estate analytics company – shows home prices in Central Texas were up 6.8 percent in July, compared to July 2011. Home prices were also up from June to July of this year – by 0.6 percent.

Home prices are also on the rise across the state, up by 4.7 percent. Nationally, prices are up by 3.8 percent.

The volume of home sales was up for the 14th straight month in July, according to figures released today by the Austin Board of Realtors.   The number of sales was up 20 percent over last year, to 2,344.

Not only are more homes selling; they’re also selling at higher prices, and they’re selling faster.  The median-priced home sold for $214,000 in July, up 9 percent.  That's the sixth straight month that the median price has risen.   And houses sold, on average, in only 63 days, down from 77 days in 2011.