Austin Market has truly gone to **** (Highlands: moving to, horses, residential)

[Austin97]

Originally Posted by OneOfTheRs

That is crazy. Can I ask how one finds the sale price? I thought it was not made public in Texas but there have been several reports of sale prices on this thread.

unless homeowners specifically ask for it to not be reported, they are required by the austin board of realtors to enter it into the MLS.

[ATX Wahine]

We bought a very modest ‘78 build home on a couple acres in 78736, a historically under-performing zip code, back in ‘08. We paid off the mortgage seven years later and did a lot of remodeling. We watched real estate rising all over Austin, while our area saw mostly modest gains. That changed last year. We began joking that when our place hits the one million dollar mark it’s time to think about cashing out and moving to Florida, where a couple of our best friends have relocated to.

We’re starting to look at Fl real estate now. At this rate we will be former Texans before too much longer.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by ATX Wahine

We bought a very modest ‘78 build home on a couple acres in 78736, a historically under-performing zip code, back in ‘08. We paid off the mortgage seven years later and did a lot of remodeling. We watched real estate rising all over Austin, while our area saw mostly modest gains. That changed last year. We began joking that when our place hits the one million dollar mark it’s time to think about cashing out and moving to Florida, where a couple of our best friends have relocated to.

We’re starting to look at Fl real estate now. At this rate we will be former Texans before too much longer.

Sell it before the highway construction starts...

or the 'vile' batch plant is installed

[ATX Wahine]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

Sell it before the highway construction starts...

or the 'vile' batch plant is installed

We are well off the highway, so we have THAT going for us. Any idea where exactly they are planning the concrete plant? I did an elementary amount of research but wasn’t able to determine where it’s proposed for.

[Trainwreck20]

It is supposed to be on the ACC campus, or at least that is one place they are looking at.

Honestly, it is the perfect location - large site with lots of buffer, direct access to the construction area w/o crossing neighborhood streets or other roads, and a significant amount of tree shielding from the homes.

As an aside, there is nothing from a health perspective that is an issue.

[ATX Wahine]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

It is supposed to be on the ACC campus, or at least that is one place they are looking at.

Honestly, it is the perfect location - large site with lots of buffer, direct access to the construction area w/o crossing neighborhood streets or other roads, and a significant amount of tree shielding from the homes.

As an aside, there is nothing from a health perspective that is an issue.

I’d rather have a concrete plant than go back to the homeless encampment there that damn near burned us all out back in ‘11. I agree that it’s a good location, for the reasons you listed. I’m pretty sure the particulates and pollens already in the air around here are collectively worse over time anyway.

[Trainwreck20]

Just talked to a couple that lives a few blocks over and I cross paths with every now and then. They are European but have been working in the US for the last few years. They bought a house (in Austin_Steve's last Austin neighborhood ) a couple of years ago, but are now going to be going back to Europe. They are probably going to be making out like bandits. They said they will need to, as the housing cost back home makes this all look cheap still......

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by ATX Wahine

I’d rather have a concrete plant than go back to the homeless encampment there that damn near burned us all out back in ‘11. I agree that it’s a good location, for the reasons you listed. I’m pretty sure the particulates and pollens already in the air around here are collectively worse over time anyway.

There is flyash used in concrete batching now, which does have quite a bit of silica and some heavy metals, but the amounts actually released to the atmosphere are trivial. The opposition is more related to the overall push back against the new highway, nothing really related to the batch plant.

The plants can be noisy due to the back-up beepers, but companies are more and more going to 'white noise' warning systems that don't carry as far and are approved by OSHA. This site would have minimal noise impact on the neighbors, I would guess. I haven't paid enough attention to see which contractor was putting in the plant.

[ATX Wahine]

I experienced all of this once before, in Northern CA. My parents sold their SF home for a ridiculously stupid amount in 1987, when I was 18, bought a ranch up in the Sierra foothills, and have never looked back. My native Austinite husband is done being angry over all the changes to Austin. He’s a couple years away from retirement and the prospect of moving to a quieter place while adding generously to our retirement savings is attractive. Some day our home and property here will probably become an enormous high rise residential pod. It is what it is.

[CarnivalGal]

Originally Posted by OneOfTheRs

That is crazy. Can I ask how one finds the sale price? I thought it was not made public in Texas but there have been several reports of sale prices on this thread.

Redfin lists sold prices. You have to create an account, but it's free and I use a burner email, so I don't get spam.

Redfin only has information for sales where there was a loan taken out. They don't have info for cash purchases.