Real Estate

With some exceptions, city rules require most residential and commercial developers in Austin to build a minimum amount of parking spots. Council members could vote Thursday to do away with these rules.

Rising mortgage interest rates make it more expensive to buy a home, and this year’s appraisals mirror this new reality. On average, home appraisals went up by just 0.08%, according to the Travis Central Appraisal District.

Does it make any sense to live in a dark-colored house in a state like Texas? We ask experts whether these homes are less energy efficient.

Those competing to represent District 9, which has some of Austin’s most unaffordable neighborhoods, don’t agree on how to solve the skyrocketing cost of staying housed — or what to blame.

In a study of newly released data, researchers found that while the average appraised value of a home in a white neighborhood in Austin is $873,758, a similar home in a community of color is valued at $318,496.

Developers have built roughly 8,000 affordable homes, less than a quarter of the city’s overall goal.

Homelessness is a real possibility for tenants of the Congress Mobile Home and RV Park after the land was purchased by a developer.

If you think of the number of new home groundbreakings and the number of new homes finished and sold as trains traveling on two parallel tracks, historically they've kept pace. That's no longer the case.

Low interest rates, high rents and working from home combined to push many young Americans to buy their first home over the last two years. But it's not without challenges.

A new data analysis from the Texas Real Estate Research Center seeks to dismiss assumptions about Texas transplants driving up residential real estate.