Real Estate Investing

The Austin Real Estate market is, doing phenomenal and it’s a great place for property investing. However too many people jump into Real Estate without knowing much of anything, so here’s a real quick crash course on one type of investment property. The two primary ways to invest in Austin Real Estate: This is going to be an oversimplification for the more familiar out there, but this is meant to be a newbie guide, so bare with me. There are two primary ways to invest in Real Estate: one is for cashflow (which I will be talking about here) and the other is for a static asset, which is more like a savings instrument (which I’ll go into some other time). I highly suggest the former. In a previous article, I talked about PITI (principle,...

I wanted to take some time to elaborate on a post I did a little while back about the inventory of Austin Real Estate. In it, I spoke broadly about what the numbers are and what they mean, but if we delve into the details a little bit, the picture it paints is actually quite extraordinary! If you’ll recall from the last post, I quoted a news article that described the normal inventory level for real estate in terms of months it would take to exhaust the current supply, given current sales level. The Austin real estate market holds at about two and a half months worth of supply, which is lower than the national average of four months and still lower than the equilibrium supply of six months. Remember (from economics: fun, fun!) that equilibrium is when supply...

Austin a Top Real Estate Investment Market – Matthew Layman Austin Realtor ® More “POSITIVE PRESS” for Austin, TX when it comes to Real Estate…. A recent article in the Austin Business Journal by Vicky Garza states: “Austin is the second-best investment market in the United States, according to Realtor.com According to data from the National Association of Realtors website, Austin is the 27th most searched market in the nation and homes in the area are selling for more than two times the national rate. Additionally, Austin’s potential for prize growth is one of the best in the nation and the median list price of $229,500 is about 12 percent higher than a year ago. Realtor.com ranked 146 markets nationwide” The top 10...

The friends and clients who know me well… know that one of my biggest PASSIONS in life is Traveling!  Experiencing new places and new cultures.  So I was excited to read Derek Thompson article on: 30 Most Dynamic Cities in the World.  One thing I wasn’t surprised to read about was that Austin, TX was ranked #26 most Dynamic City in the World and the only city featured from the United States. If you are one of the lucky few who call Austin, Texas home and are currently not a proud home-owner you might want to take a serious look at making that next step towards the American Dream and Financial Freedom.  Owning Real Estate is the foundation to building long term wealth.  So taking ownership of a home or an investment property in ONE of the most...

I wanted to speak to you about some topics that I’m super PASSIONATE about….. Opportunity, Change, Personal Growth, Investing, Real Estate and how they all can come together to manifest something truly special! I always start my day off by reading personal growth and this morning I read ‘Creating Opportunity’ by Jim Rohn and I have posted it below.  But once I read that then it got me fired up to talk about The Elevation Group, Investing, Current Wealth Cycles in the Market, and Real Estate.  How they can come together to create the perfect storm of prosperity.  You see to create opportunity you must first be someone who’s open to receiving it which would be an enterprising person because they are like surfers … they are in...