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Old 07-07-2021, 10:10 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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What a pointless topic .
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Old 07-07-2021, 10:17 AM
 
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What a pointless topic .
This.
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Old 07-07-2021, 01:10 PM
 
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A house in the Westlake area of Austin just sold for $38 Million.
https://www.businessinsider.com/aust...nknown%20buyer.

The most expensive listing in Austin is $45 million
https://austin.curbed.com/maps/austi...mes-for-sale-1
The first home is an anomoly in Austin. The second article is over a year old. That property has been on and off the market since 2017. It's also not really a house; it's 65 acres of waterfront property, which I'm going to assume will be subdivided to many houses.

The most epensive homes for sale in the entire state of Texas are in Houston.
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Old 07-07-2021, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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What a pointless topic .
Co-signing.
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Old 07-08-2021, 07:45 AM
 
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
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Parts of Austin now look like Los Angeles or San Francisco with all the campers under the underpasses and in public green spaces.

Last time I drove through Austin...I was shocked at how things had changed...and not for the better.
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Old 07-08-2021, 09:01 AM
 
Location: OC
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The first home is an anomoly in Austin. The second article is over a year old. That property has been on and off the market since 2017. It's also not really a house; it's 65 acres of waterfront property, which I'm going to assume will be subdivided to many houses.

The most epensive homes for sale in the entire state of Texas are in Houston.
But yet Austin housing is still more expensive as a whole.....
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Old 07-11-2021, 05:00 PM
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The second article is over a year old. That property has been on and off the market since 2017. It's also not really a house; it's 65 acres of waterfront property, which I'm going to assume will be subdivided to many houses.

The most epensive homes for sale in the entire state of Texas are in Houston.
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But yet Austin housing is still more expensive as a whole.....
Houston has a larger range of home prices than Austin. There are 1.4M owner occupied homes in Houston compared to 400K in Austin. If you’re willing to live 25-40 miles from the Houston city core, you can find a $200k home.

As I posted earlier in this thread, Austin does in fact have a higher median home price. One of factors is growth outstripping supply. Builders can’t keep up with demand.

To the OP who started this thread and equated Westlake to River Oaks (Houston), there is no comparison to River Oaks in Austin. There is a street (Lazy Lane) in River Oaks with homes starting at $20M. Only Highland Park in Dallas compares to River Oaks in TX

Below is a July study of the top 50 metros with >= $1M homes.

https://www.lendingtree.com/home/cit...-dollar-homes/

https://www.houstoniamag.com/home-an...97331707027508

By Absolute Numbers for TX
Metro Homes
1 Houston 32,167
2 Dallas 29,509
3 Austin 14,226
4 San Antonio 6,037

By Percent
Rank Metro
1 San Jose, CA
2 San Francisco, CA
3 Los Angeles, CA
4 San Diego, CA
5 New York, NY
6 Seattle, WA
7 Boston, MA
8 Washington, DC
9 Miami, FL
10 Denver, CO
11 Austin, TX
12 Sacramento, CA
13 Portland, OR
14 Chicago, IL
15 Nashville, TN
16 Houston, TX
17 Phoenix, AZ
18 Baltimore, MD
19 Riverside, CA
20 Dallas, TX
21 Charlotte, NC
22 Jacksonville, FL
23 Atlanta, GA
24 Las Vegas, NV
25 Orlando, FL
26 Salt Lake City, UT
27 Philadelphia, PA
28 Providence, RI
29 Tampa, FL
30 New Orleans, LA
31 Minneapolis, MN
32 Raleigh, NC
33 Richmond, VA
34 San Antonio, TX
35 Virginia Beach, VA
36 Birmingham, AL
37 Milwaukee, WI
38 St. Louis, MO
39 Oklahoma City, OK
40 Hartford, CT
41 Kansas City, MO
42 Louisville, KY
43 Memphis, TN
44 Detroit, MI
45 Indianapolis, IN
46 Cincinnati, OH
47 Columbus, OH
48 Pittsburgh, PA
49 Cleveland, OH
50 Buffalo, NY

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Old 07-13-2021, 06:21 PM
 
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The Heights is more like Hyde Park/Rosedale/Brentwood/Crestview/Allandale

Montrose is more like 78704, i.e. Travis Heights/Bouldin/Zilker/Dawson/South Lamar/Galindo

River Oaks is Pemberton Heights

West U is Tarrytown

EaDo/3rd ward is East Austin
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Old 07-17-2021, 11:10 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Austin has high tech. Houston has oil and gas which is dying business. BP, Shell, Schlumberger constantly lay off people and send jobs to India. I think Austin has more $$$ future than Houston. High tech wins.
I wouldn't be bragging about high tech. Where ever it touches, it brings massive income inequality and social strife, like to Google bus incident several years ago.

The Colonial Pipeline incident has raised concerns about high tech vulnerability. It may not be a good idea to connect infrastructure to the internet and tempt hackers. With minimalism on the rise, the privacy and state surveillance concerns are making social media detox/disconnections popular.

Also high tech is one of the biggest polluters with the massive electricity to keep internet servers running. Turns out going "green" with bank e-statements is just greenwashing for the banks to save money on paper, printing, and postage.
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Old 07-18-2021, 08:55 AM
 
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Infrastructure is typically connected to the internet via MPLS mainly because it is affordable compared to the alternatives… which would involve literally having a telecom company spanning a privatized cable up the entire length of the colonial pipeline to hit all peers involved. This also poses an issue if something should happen to the cable where as tunneling provides redundant routes over multiple MPLS peers should a node fail anywhere in the network.

Using the WAN is the wiser solution when looking at things logistically and financially. Security measures just need tighter accountability.
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