Everyone loves TacoDeli, yes? They do a bang-up job with all manner of tacos, including Fish, Vegetarian, and the venerable Breakfast Taco. Mmmm! Plus they support Austin in numerous ways — charitable donations, fundraisers, and support of local businesses to name a few. I’m wondering, though, why they recently acquired real estate near 43rd and [...]

Calling all property-watching junkies!  What do you want from online content, as it relates to Real Estate in Austin?  Here are the top five blogs that come up when you Google “Austin Real Estate Blog”: Escape Somewhere Crossland Real Estate Austin Real Estate Guy Blog Eric Bramlett’s Blog Central East Austin Real Estate Me, I’m [...]

Virtually speaking, of course.  From Friday’s ABJ: “Electronic Arts Inc. has signed a lease for 50,000 square feet in the Domain 2.” As the article notes, EA hasn’t yet said how they’ll use the space.  Nevertheless, 50,000 square feet is a whole lotta room to play in! (Uh, pretty much the same square footage as a [...]

Business Week has a list of the top 20 cities where it’s cheaper to buy than rent. Dallas is number 10. Most of the list is where you’d expect — Florida, California, Georgia. However, the top three are Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Rochester. Needless to say, Austin is not on the list.

Most of us have seen, first hand, the exemplification of our struggling economy in the specter of vacant strip mall after vacant strip mall. Drive around in La Frontera sometime. That’ll give you perspective. Along those lines, I just read an article in today’s Statesman about the ways in which the weak job market impacts [...]

This article is about the Austin’s retail leasing market (“hangs tough” — which is good news), but what’s also interesting is that Austin is getting a new natural foods grocer, Sprouts.