You ran back for your AirPods. You forgot the dog was on the patio. You thought the showing was at 3:00, not 2:00. And now you’re standing barefoot in your own kitchen, eye-to-eye with a buyer’s agent and a couple in matching Patagonia vests. Welcome to one of the most awkward — and consequential — three minutes of your home sale.
Austin is not a simple market. A house in Tarrytown doesn’t price like a house in Allandale, even when they look similar on paper. A lot in 78704 can be worth meaningfully more or less than the lot next to it based on whether it’s in a flood plain, what the zoning actually allows, what the survey shows, and how the comp set has moved in the last 60 days. Multiply that across every neighborhood we cover, and the variance gets significant fast.
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