Amanda White

Amanda White Austin, Texas based Real Estate Agent with @ Properties Christie's International Real Estate
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Market Monday 📬🔑 16,234 active listings. 5,125 pending. Activity Index at 23.99%. Months of inventory across Central Tex...
05/04/2026

Market Monday 📬

🔑 16,234 active listings. 5,125 pending. Activity Index at 23.99%. Months of inventory across Central Texas ranges from 3.44 to 11.00, with Austin-Area at 5.7. Median sold price is $440K, avg is $589K. We’re down 20% from the May 2022 peak. Homes averaging 82 days on market, 48% of actives have had a price cut, and sold-to-list is 97.68%.

🌱 Through May 3rd, new listings are down 4.2% YoY but pending contracts are UP 2.8%. Absorption improved to 0.84. Buyer demand is quietly outpacing supply heading into peak season.

💡 Austin’s HOME initiative is delivering. New ABoR data shows HOME-enabled homes are selling at a median of $750K vs. $1.58M for traditional new construction. That’s 53% lower, at a median 1,693 sqft with 3 bedrooms. Attainable housing at real family-scale. Progress.

💸 Nationally, seller profit margins dropped to 44.1% in Q1 2026, the lowest since early 2021 and well off the 63.5% peak from Q2 2022. Foreclosures also rising, up 26% YoY. A shifting market is a normal market, not a crash.

🎸 ACL Fest generated $557.8M in economic impact in 2025, up 4.3% from 2024, with 75,000+ attendees per day. Biggest annual event in the region and yes, still worth the Zilker Park closure debate every single year.

🧗 Crux Climbing Center opens its new South Austin location at 220 Ralph Ablanedo Dr. TODAY. 48-foot walls, bouldering, saunas, a rope canyon, AND it shares space with Switchback Coffee & Beer and Granny’s Tacos. Wellness and tacos in one stop? Peak Austin.

🍷 Only the Wild Ones just opened on South Congress, transforming the old South Congress Cafe patio into Austin’s first dedicated outdoor listening bar. Natural wines, agave cocktails, vinyl, and a 20-foot Cypress wood bar. Yes please.

🥖 ThoroughFare in Mueller is open, offering sourdough, coffee, deli, and produce with zero seed oils or artificial anything. Also: Creasy’s BBQ truck grand opening in Round Rock May 15-17.

🥳 ***It’s Austin Small Business Week! Drop your favorite local small business in the comments and let’s flood their pages with some love.***

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🌶️ The option period is the best money you will spend in the entire home buying process!!5–10 days. Inspect. Walk for an...
05/01/2026

🌶️ The option period is the best money you will spend in the entire home buying process!!

5–10 days. Inspect. Walk for any reason. Full earnest money returned if you walk.

That means if your inspector finds the HVAC is 18 years old, you negotiate. If the foundation report comes back with movement, you negotiate or leave. If you just get a bad feeling about the neighbors — you can leave. No explanation required.

The fee ($100–500 typically) goes to the seller and you don’t get it back either way. But your earnest money — the real money, usually 1% of purchase price — is completely protected until that option period ends.

An example of things I have negotiated include a new roof, 20k price reduction, closing costs covered, rate buy down, repairs to be done by seller, and seller credits. The option period is the time shine ✨

TLDR; On a $500K home that’s $5,000 sitting safe while you make sure you actually want the house. Worth every penny of the option fee. 🪙

Market monday 🏡 #✨🚪Just listed! 303 W Browning St, Manor, 2021-built 3BD/2BA with NO HOA. No fees, no restrictions, no b...
04/20/2026

Market monday 🏡 #✨

🚪Just listed! 303 W Browning St, Manor, 2021-built 3BD/2BA with NO HOA. No fees, no restrictions, no board telling you what to do with your own home. Smart home upgrades, whole-home water softener, and just 12 miles from downtown Austin via US-290 and SH-130. Manor is growing fast and this one checks every box.

📊 Austin Q1 2026: 6,186 homes sold (down 1.8% YoY) but pending sales surged 10.9% to 8,110, the strongest forward-looking signal in years. Metro median fell 3% to $426,220, the lowest March median since 2021. Close-to-list ratio: 92.6%. Buyers are closing when the price is right.

🔑 First-time buyers: THIS is your window. March sales in the $200K-$250K range DOUBLED YoY. Travis County median just under $500K, Williamson $410K, Hays $381K, Bastrop $330K. Rates at 6.32% but sellers are cutting.

🌍 Austin is the 3rd strongest buyer’s market in the country, with sellers outnumbering buyers by 112%. Only Miami (148%) and Nashville (119%) rank higher. Nationally that gap is 43%, near an all-time record.

🌵 817 new homes coming to Bastrop at Stonebrush, mid-$300Ks to mid-$400Ks with pool, bathhouse, and trails. First homes in 2028. With SpaceX expanding its 1.1M sq ft campus nearby, this corridor is one to watch.

🎓 ACC paid $130.5M for the 560K sq ft Bergstrom Tech Center on Burleson Rd for SE Austin workforce training, saving an estimated $100M over building new.

🔥 Black’s BBQ, Texas’ oldest founded in 1932, purchased the former Trudy’s at 409 W. 30th St. near UT for a permanent Austin home. Guadalupe location stays open during the move.

🍹 Modern Bar opened April 10 on Rainey St with craft cocktails including a Taqueria Margarita with mezcal, avocado + serrano. The Grille opened April 14 in Lakeway with rotating seasonal Texas ingredients and Gulf Coast seafood. Haji Moto celebrated its grand opening in Georgetown this week with house-made ramen and beef tallow karaage.

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04/17/2026

Make your own schedule but it’s 24/7 🐾💪🏼🏡🤘🏻

Market Monday 💸🏠 It’s tax week and homeownership pays off: mortgage interest and property taxes may be deductible, you c...
04/13/2026

Market Monday 💸

🏠 It’s tax week and homeownership pays off: mortgage interest and property taxes may be deductible, you can exclude up to $250K in capital gains when you sell ($500K if married), home office expenses may qualify, and energy-efficient upgrades can earn federal tax credits.

📋 Travis County property tax protest deadline is May 15. Texas has the 7th highest property taxes in the country and it’s FREE to file. The Appraisal Review Board cannot raise your value at a hearing. If you bought in the past year, your sale price is strong evidence. Services like Ownwell do it on contingency. Also make sure you have your homestead exemption, which knocks $140K off your taxable value.

📊 Austin’s March market strongly favors buyers: median list price dropped 8.4% YoY to $572,450, homes sat 47 days on market, and 20.6% of listings had price cuts vs 16.3% nationally. Homes priced right still sold faster than the national average of 57 days.

🏘️ Six Austin-area communities sold new homes under $250K in 2025, including Prairie Lakes from $233,990 and Waterstone from $214,490. Developers say those deals required cheap land struck years ago and are nearly impossible to replicate now at $7,900+ per acre.

🌆 Georgetown is getting TWO massive new communities: Rock Bluff Ranch (2,375 homes) and Yearwood (1,894 homes) with lakes, trails, parks, and a new GISD elementary school.

🌶️ Austin’s iconic Chili’s at 45th & Lamar has been listed for sale along with the neighboring Starbucks lot, but CBRE says both tenants are expected to stay long term.

🍹 Modern Bar opened April 10 on Rainey St. Enoteca Sportiva now open daily at 1500 S. Lamar. Katz’s Deli returning to 6th Street with a $2.5M renovation starting Sept 2026. The Grille opens April 14 in Lakeway.

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04/09/2026

🐾 Real estate agents doing more than closing deals.

A group of .atx agents joined forces with for a volunteer day at Safe in Austin.

If you haven’t heard of them, Safe in Austin is a nonprofit rescue ranch right here in our backyard with a mission as beautiful as it sounds: rescue animals, rescuing children.

They provide a sanctuary for over 200 rescued animals across 17 different species, most of whom were their last resort, and they invite children who have survived abuse, trauma, or have special needs to heal alongside those animals. Their motto: Every creature here, human and animal alike, deserves unconditional love.

💛 Want to help? You can donate or volunteer directly through their website. Every dollar goes straight to the animals and kids who need it most.

No one who comes to Safe in Austin is ever charged a fee. They run entirely on community donations, so your support goes a long way.

🔗 safeinaustin.org

04/07/2026

🏡 Leander’s most architecturally stunning home under $600K and I need everyone to see it. 👀

480 Starlight Village Loop is one of just 29 custom homes built by Austin local Tony Jacobs — and from the second you open the door, you know this one is different.

Walls of glass. Polished concrete floors. Spa primary bath with double rain shower and freestanding soaking tub. Custom closet. Quartzite kitchen. Turfed upstairs balcony with pool views. W/D conveys. HOA mows your lawn.

📍 480 Starlight Village Loop, Leander, TX 78641
💎 Offered at $600,000
🛌 3 Bed | 3 Bath
🔑 2,345 Sq. Ft.
🚆 Minutes from Capital MetroRail
🏊 Community pool | HOA maintained landscaping

📲 DM me or drop a comment below for a private tour. Link in bio for more. 🤍

Listed by: of Christie’s International Real Estate

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04/07/2026

Market monday 🏡✨

Austin's real estate market is heating up this spring — here's what buyers, sellers, and residents need to know:

🔥 Sellers: Realtor.com says April 12-18 is THE best week to list in Austin. Homes are expected to get 26% more views than average, sell 8 days faster, and list for $41K more than at the start of the year. Realtor.com chief economist Danielle Hale says the mid-April window lets sellers benefit from seasonal pricing advantages while the market feels more approachable to buyers. Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston share the same window; San Antonio's best window starts April 19.

💰 Austin median home price hit $412K in February (down 3.6% YoY), with Travis County at $489,900. The 30-year fixed rate is sitting at ~6.38% as buyers re-engage after rates stabilized in late 2025. Experts warn Southern metros like Austin may face softer conditions due to abundant inventory, making timing your listing even more critical.

🏘️ Ash Creek Homes' Drew Lane near Slaughter & Menchaca is bringing 28 craftsman-style homes from the HIGH $300Ks — over $200K below the avg new build in that zip. Built under Austin's new HOME ordinance, they doubled density from 16 to 28 homes on just 2.4 acres, preserving mature oak trees and including full yard care. One of the first builders to successfully apply the new policy at scale.

🌿 Austin's first longevity-focused community, Sanarē Clarksville, just launched — featuring circadian lighting, advanced air and water systems, and architecture engineered to support long-term health and lifespan. Every detail is designed in partnership with Cedar, a Texas-based architectural practice blending intelligent technology with thoughtful design.

🏗️ The long-stalled Springdale Farm site at 755 Springdale Rd in East Austin is back: new developers Seco Ventures are proposing 130 multifamily units on the 4.85-acre site, up from the original 84-condo StoryBuilt plan that fell apart when the company entered receivership in 2023. A rezoning hearing is scheduled.

📈 4.1% of Austin for-sale listings have converted to rentals, ranking 3rd worst nationally behind Denver and Houston. Sellers unwilling to accept today's prices are becoming accidental landlords — quietly shifting bargaining power toward buyers. Condos are seeing the fastest rise in this trend nationally.

⚠️ HOA fees are rising fast: 82% of HOA homeowners saw increases over the last 3 years, with median fees now at $135/mo vs. $108 in 2019. 67% of new builds carry an HOA, and 2.6 million American homeowners are paying $500+/mo in dues alone. Always factor this into your true monthly cost before buying.

🎸 The Red River Cultural District generated $2.3B in economic impact over 5 years, growing from $380M to $530M annually between 2021-2025, supporting 3,700+ jobs and 650+ musicians. A thriving arts and culture scene is a direct driver of long-term property values — and Austin's is only getting stronger.

What questions do you have about the Austin market? Drop them below. 👇

Market Monday 🐰🔥 Sellers: Realtor.com says April 12-18 is THE best week to list! Homes expected to get 26% more views, ...
04/06/2026

Market Monday 🐰

🔥 Sellers: Realtor.com says April 12-18 is THE best week to list! Homes expected to get 26% more views, sell 8 days faster, AND list for $41K more than at the start of the year. Don’t miss this window!

💰 Austin median home price: $412K in February (down 3.6% YoY). Travis County hit $489,900. Rates sitting at ~6.38% on a 30-year fixed. Buyers are re-engaging — the market is shifting!

🏘️ Drew Lane near Slaughter & Menchaca brings 28 craftsman homes from the HIGH $300Ks using Austin’s new HOME ordinance — over $200K below avg new builds in that zip. Missing middle housing DONE RIGHT.

🌿 Austin’s first longevity-focused community just launched: Sanarē Clarksville features circadian lighting + air/water systems literally engineered to extend your lifespan. Future of Austin living is HERE.

📈 Accidental landlords rising: 4.1% of Austin for-sale listings converted to rentals — 3rd worst in the nation. Sellers holding firm on price = more negotiating power for buyers!

⚠️ HOA check: 82% of HOA homeowners saw fees rise in 3 years. Median is now $135/mo, up from $108 in 2019. Always factor this into your true monthly cost before buying!

🎸 Red River Cultural District generated $2.3 BILLION in economic impact over 5 years + 3,700 jobs. Thriving arts district = strong property values.

🍹 Golden Ace cocktail lounge now open downtown. Konbini from the Tare team open inside Papercut on E. 5th. Electric Gravy serving Indian-Texas fusion. Tzintzuntzan, daytime sibling to Fonda San Miguel, already a hotspot!

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