Finding realestate in austin (Round Rock, Georgetown: real estate, houses, income)

[Austin97]

I found this group and it looked to be fun. I live in austin and thought I would post some of the resources that I use to find real estate:

google maps in hybrid mode gives you an idea of what the houses look like.

Austinhomesearch.com Home Page - this is the main website with all of the mls listings. This lets you search for houses by various criteria

Moderator cut: realtor site

Travis CAD Main - This is the tax appraisal district. Every property is listed along with the tax value. Note that the tax value is always lower than the real value. Sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot. Every address has an online plat so you can see the exact layout of the land itself

You can also look up agricultural exemptions. If you get a large lot and have some farm animals (like goats) you can pay next to nothing in taxes)

Generally speaking:

Far North austin - yuppies, high tech. Higher end shopping like tiffany and co. neimans etc just opened up in the domain (north of 183,west of mopac, east of 620, south of parmer)


North austin - laid back, cheap, lots of strip malls, lower income but will be gentrified soon (east of mopac, west of i35, south of 183, north of ~45th street)

Central austin - laid back, expensive, small houses, walking distance to a lot of traditional austin places. Like restaurants in houses. (south of 45, east of mopac, west of i35, north of 26th)

Campus -lots of students (same as central but north of 15th south of 26th or so)

downtown - trendy, expensive, great nightlife (north of 1st street, south of 15th, west of i35, east of lamar)

garden district, similar to central austin (same as downtown but west of lamar, east of mopac)

West austin - Newer developments, larger properties, lots of hills and protected land (west of 360, north of 71, south of 183, east of 620)

Lake - lake life, laid back, not a lot of employers (along the lake)

soco (south congress) - close in is now trendy in a grunge/slacker way, but getting very expensive. (south of the river - riverside drive, north of oltorf)

east - getting gentrified, used to find great deals there, but because it is walking distance to downtown it is rapidly getting expensive. Can still find good deals though as it has a high hispanic concentration (east of i35, parallel to downtown)

airport - wide open very flat spaces large properties

[TERRIE]

Thanks Austin....big Help! Anything You Can Tell Me About Georgetown? How Far To Austin From There? My Husband Will Be Working At Champion Toyota....georgtown Vs Round Rock?..he Will Work Odd Hours So, Won't Be In The 8 To 5 Crowd On The Freeway...any Suggestions Helpful On Any Area Around Austin..:d

[Austin97]

Originally Posted by TERRIE

Thanks Austin....big Help! Anything You Can Tell Me About Georgetown? How Far To Austin From There? My Husband Will Be Working At Champion Toyota....georgtown Vs Round Rock?..he Will Work Odd Hours So, Won't Be In The 8 To 5 Crowd On The Freeway...any Suggestions Helpful On Any Area Around Austin..:d

Georgetown is pretty far from austin. Roundrock is close enough that with the new toll roads you can get to austin in a reasonable amount of time. I personally wouldnt live any further north than round rock.