Buying Certainty for Stratus

"...A publicity-shy billionaire real estate magnate from California -- not Jim Bob Moffett..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Who's Buying the Votes?

The C&E reports show whose money is funding which campaigns

"...funded by builders, developers, and various legal, banking, and real estate interests. A brief breakout of the major funding..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Michael King

How Estate Services of Austin Finds New Homes for Treasures Left Behind

In the saddest times, Carl McQueary and the Estate Services team are there to help

"...a trail of little yellow arrows pointing to an estate sale, if you follow their directions you may find..."

July 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Tim Doyle's 'Unreal Estate II' debuts at San Francisco's Spoke Art Gallery

Where Serenity lands, the TARDIS occurs, and there's a certain Abbey …

"...all things geekified and true, has lately been drawing realistic illustrations – issued as full-color, limited-edition screenprints – based..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Eastward Expansion

Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside

"...descended upon the city to capitalize on the hot real estate market. But the positive impact of renewal and..."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

The Common Law

Real estate and title issues

"...Numerous legal issues surround buying and selling real estate. I've asked Andrea Lowry, an..."

May 18, 2007 Column by Andrea Lowry

The Common Law

Title Insurance – the basics

"...Numerous legal issues surround buying and selling real estate. I've asked Andrea Lowry, an..."

May 25, 2007 Column by Andrea Lowry

Election Notes

The C&E reports show whose money is funding which campaigns

"...funded by builders, developers, and various legal, banking, and real estate interests. A brief breakout of the major funding..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Michael King

Hot for House

Exotic real estate in print and on TV

"...taken to watching the HG network's many addictive home buying, selling, and improving shows. This doesn't make a lick..."

Jan. 15, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Peace Sells...

Megadeth's entry in the album-as-box-set sweepstakes

"...I’m not buying. Mostly because EMI sent it to me, but like..."

Dec. 8, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Developing Stories: What Would Andrés Duany Do?

The town-planning messiah fixes Austin.

"...hasn't yet become ingrained. It's like, 'We're country folk, really; we don't trust that we've arrived.' You need to..."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

The Word Made Flesh

Ebenezer Baptist Blends the Spiritual and Temporal

"...us that we should be saving souls instead of buying real estate. But the majority saw (the latter) as..."

Dec. 27, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

East Side Hotel Changes Course

Developers withdraw permit application

"...The real estate developers hoping to build a 65-room hotel on..."

July 31, 2015 News Post by Tony Cantú

Naked City

No One's Buying

"...Fath, meanwhile, is thanking the real estate gods for Austin's glut of office space. "This..."

Aug. 16, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

A Home Loan of Our Own

Homeowning may be the American Dream, but seems so far out of reach for so many. Bernadette Noll's story of finding and buying a house offers hope for the hapless.

"...only after being here a few months that I realized that West Campus was a high-rent area as far..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Features Feature by Bernadette Noll

Spotting the Rare Cheap Rental

The history and habits of a not-quite-extinct-yet Austin species

"...and his wife, Mary, have both died, and the estate is selling the house (asking price: $180,000). When it..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Michael Erard

Conversations With Builder Paul Lamb and Architect Don Crowell Is This My Beautiful House?

"...by Anne S. Lewis So you're thinking about buying a house; it's summer and the house-trading season is..."

July 28, 1995 Arts Feature

'Chrome Underground' Goes Classic Car Hunting

Motoreum's Yusuf & Antonio talk about the biz and their reality TV debut

"...and Johnson to talk friendship, classic cars, and the real deal with Andrew. Chrome Underground premieres tomorrow (5/23), 9pm,..."

May 22, 2014 Screens Post by Jordan Smith

Author by Author

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

"...his home state of Montana. Laslo Horoney, a Texas real estate magnate and one of the wealthiest men in..."

May 1, 1998 Books Feature

Men Who Would be Mayor

Scrambling for Money, Consensus, & Power

"...Joe Duncan and Jay Hailey, former presidents of the Real Estate Council of Austin...."

April 25, 1997 News Feature by Alex de Marban

Stratus Quo?

Stratus Properties tries to shake the ghost of Jim Bob Moffett as it is acquired by Tom Hicks.

"...Moffett, Armstrong's former boss and founder of the real estate development outfit formerly known as FM Properties, is..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...date. The program allows qualifying evacuees to live in Real Estate Owned properties – basically, Fannie Mae-foreclosed properties –..."

Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature

What's Wrong with Public Housing?

The remarkable turnaround of the city's Housing Authority

"...crisis: Housing of any kind is scarce, homes for real people are nearly nonexistent, and bloated upscale haciendas litter..."

Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...Now, who's given serious thought to fleeing this insane real estate market and moving out of town? Maybe your..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Letters at 3AM: 'O' Is for Oligarchy (Continued)

The American Oligarchy has been growing for decades, and we've been its enablers

"...of total U.S. profits" during the years that our real estate market inflated to fantastic levels (Nobel laureate economist..."

April 23, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

The Making of an Endorsement

"...the language of this charter amendment — even help buying the land...."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

Natural Born Leader

Mayor Hits the Ground Running His First 100 Days

"...the city and we want the public to approve buying it outside the city, so let's put it to..."

Oct. 3, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Keepin' It Jungle

Austin company plans an eco-colonial retreat in Mexico

"...a slow and suspicious Mexican bureaucracy, and a skeptical real estate community. And some experts think they're crazy –..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Written in Stone

UT's Jim Bob Moffett and Freeport-McMoRan ride a new wave of allegations of business as usual: exploitation, cronyism, and environmental devastation

"...Austin over the company's plans to build a major real estate project on the banks of Barton Creek, about..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...play great blues, jazz, folk, and country music on real instruments? Or do all they know how to do..."

March 21, 2003 Column

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