South Austin Real Estate Blog - Sky Realty

We live on property that has many many oak trees, they are beautiful, wonderful shade providers, squirrel provides, cardinal refuges, many things to us. Austin is proud of its live oaks and pin oaks and spanish oaks.  We love each and every one of them, so this week we did something that has made...

Next Tuesday, Sept 8,2009 our President Obama is planning on addressing the school children of our nation in their classrooms.  This has become a very controversial event.  I am unsure why but I haven't researched the event. Last night was the Parents Meet the Teacher event at our local middle sc...

Keep Austin Weird 5K  Sept 12th, 2009     There will be a start off for the 5K run at 8:00am and a start off for the Family 1K at 9:00am,  both starting from downtwon Austin Texas. The Keep Austin Weird 5K will start at the Buford Bell Tower locted at the intersection of West Cesar Chavez St. and...

How important are photos on my MLS listing?  Well to me they are of the utmost importance.  Almost daily I speak with or email with clients looking for a home.  Those clients are saving a listing or rejecting the listing due to the photos online. I recall when we used to preview more homes, most ...

Keller Williams is based in Austin Texas and has many many fine offices throughout the World.  Every year the KW staff at the International Office here in Austin work hard to bring about a convention full of fun and learning.  Intensive training, mini tech training and lots more than I could tell...

Austin Water shortage has entered Stage 2 shortage measurements.  Beginnning today, Monday, August 24,2009... the CIty of Austin is kicking into a higher gear for water conservation.  here are the new rules and there will be NO WARNINGS of violations, there will be a $400 Fine for the first offen...

The Undomestic Goddess by Sophia Kinsella  another fun summer read.  Wandering through the book aisle I picked this up and it was pretty fun, so I have discovered another fun author.  I think everyone knows my favorite fun author is Janet Evanovich with her  Stephanie Plum series,  but Stephanie ...

This is a crazy shopping weekend in Texas, its Tax Free weekend so the stores are really ringing up sales, the aisles are crowded and the parking lots are a mess.  In all the humanity out and moving today I saw a real random act of kindness and it truthfully does restore my faith in young folks. ...

Keeping up with the various areas here in Austin which is very diverse from neighborhood to neighborhood we can still get a glimpse of what is going on overall.   These statistics are from just one neighborhood, Villages at Western Oaks, and from June 1, 3009 to current, August 21,2009.   When it...

Good news for Austin Texas, residential home sales for the month of July 2009 have reached the level of July 2008 sustaining a slight 2% decrease from last year.  While much of the rest of the USA is still mired in the depths of devaluing homes we seem to be a bright spot.   Here is the informati...