Real estate is always unpredictable, but houses are sitting on the market a lot longer now than they were last year and sellers must be nervous. Negotiate like a Pawn Star: offer low and go up slow. Sellers (and your broker and their broker) may not like it, but most will come back somewhere in the middle. None will throw away your number. Today's Hot Real Estate Listings post is on Burnet between 45th and 2222. Good access to a lot of interesting retail (e.g., great restaurants without a wait for a table (e.g., Maru)). Parts of Brentwood, Allandale and Rosedale. It's like living in a Billy Joel's dream, but hotter. more ›

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Our Hot Real Estate Listings column is pretty much dead, but we still cruise the MLS on occasion and this beauty popped up as the most expensive listing in central Austin right now (beating out 3 Niles Road, which has been for sale for a while). It is the Allen-Von Boeckmann Building, a historical structure dating from around 1874 (the listing says 1869, but 1874 is pretty clearly carved into the cornice), at 811 Congress... more ›

After a short hiatus, the Hot Real Estate Listings column is back and the same as ever! Here are the listings for today: 809 Jewell Street - $1,250,000, 4,200 square foot house built in 1900. Taken! Had your $1.25M ready to go for this one, didn't you? Too late - it got an offer super quick after listing. Awesome looking house. Original wood detail all over the place, beautiful porch. Bouldin is mad-hot, yo.... more ›

We were feeling a little down about the Hot Real Estate Listings column (cuz a lot of people seem to hate it), but then the Statesman "borrowed" the idea and profiled a house that was in this column over a month ago (still for sale, btw). So, we're feeling a little more positive about it. Here are the listings for today: 1314 Bob Harrison Street - $289,000, 1,539 square foot house built in 1937... more ›