In a 3-2 vote, Travis County commissioners did the right thing today and retained the historic property tax exemption for 2011. Judge Biscoe and Commissioners Gomez and Huber gave a thumbs up to historic preservation tax incentives. City of Austin and AISD are still mulling over whether to chang
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06/28/2011
Tomorrow, June 28, Travis County commissioners will decide whether to continue to offer property tax exemptions to historic properties. Right now, there is a proposal that will gut the exemption and offer a mere $350 annual property tax reduction for historic properties. This miniscule exemptio
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06/27/2011
Not just for Austin luxury homes, but to see what's happening overall in the market, I pull my Austin MLS "hotsheet" quite often and review price changes, pending contracts, sales etc. A few luxury sales at full price caught my eye so here is the year to date Austin luxury home sales update. *
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06/02/2011
The leafy Deep Eddy neighborhood offers some of the most eclectic homes for sale in West Austin. In 1915, AJ Eilers bought land around a spring fed swimming hole in the Colorado river and built the state's first outdoor concrete pool. Now a public pool, it is still in use, not chlorinated, and s
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06/02/2011