Traffic will no doubt be heavy this weekend—not only around UT and downtown, due to the Texas Relays, but also near Auditorium Shores, where the Urban Music festival takes place.
A charming house with interiors by local designer Kim West and featured in local and national magazines and home tours shows off historical features with modern touches.
Built in 1936, the house has been remodeled but retains the unique, casual essence of the original, particularly with its bright-green paint and leafy lot shaded by big trees.
Here’s another way Austin isn’t like other cities: Our holiday tree is a chopped down conifer or other living thing sacrificed to the winter gods. It’s a moonlight tower. And now it’s 50 years old.
The Austin City Council’s Parklands Events Task Force has recommended moving some of the biggest events away from the three parks where they are routinely held to parks in east and southeast parts of town.
South Austin keeps on delivering when it comes to putting one-of-a-kind homes on the market. This one, a charming limestone cottage built in 1941, is updated but retains key original features.
If you missed the supermoon on Sunday night or early Monday morning, don’t fear: There’s still a chance to view the orb close-up in Austin tonight, and it should be quite the show.
An unbuilt home with a view measuring more than 3,000 square feet tops the list of home prices per square foot in the popular South Austin neighborhood.
The city’s Environmental Commission cleared the way for the Mighty Union group remove heritage pecans as part of plan to repurpose Carpenters Hall for boutique hospitality.
Feeling lost without Uber or Lyft? Don’t. Not only are there quite a few ride-hailing services in Austin, but you also have plenty of other options for getting to the fest as well
In an ongoing series for Curbed Austin, real-estate analytics site NeighborhoodX is taking a close look at sales price ranges in different neighborhoods. Today, it’s checking out numbers in South Austin’s Zilker neighborhood.
Some of Austin’s most well known (and used) parks could soon get a break from the ravages of the all the large events that take place there, if the city follows task force recommendations.
Sticking around for the long weekend? You'll still find plenty to do and see right here, from drive-in movies to fireworks shows to roller derby matches—not to mention all the swimming and yoga you can possibly handle.
In an ongoing series for Curbed Austin, real-estate analytics site NeighborhoodX is taking a close look at sales price ranges in different neighborhoods. Today, it’s checking out numbers in South Austin’s Zilker neighborhood.
Designed by award-winning Central Texas architect Steve Zagorski, this multileveled Zilker home is artful and sophisticated without being uptight about it.
If you’re heading to Austin for the upcoming long weekend and haven’t booked a place to stay—or you have friends visiting who are in that situation—there are still plenty of short-term rentals to be had. These would make seeing the fireworks a breeze.
A brand-new build with artfully placed windows and light, open spaces in a terrific location, this two-story, contemporary Zilker house listed at $1.1M reads as both energizing and peaceful.
It's too bad that whoever created this listing didn't spring for better pictures or any description of the house or property—especially since was designed by A.D. Stenger, one of Austin's most well-regarded and prolific midcentury modern architects.
Austin's brief relief from rising rent prices in April has now been obliterated, with overall rent rising 0.5% between April and May and up 4.4% over last year. Moreover, the neighborhoods with the highest rent hikes are not your usual subjects.
This week's rent price hunt took us to apartments, houses, townhouses, and even a triplex—and to a variety of neighborhoods including Zilker, Allandale, and East Austin
To kick off the summer rental migration season, we're pitching in to help those Austinites who are the move for one reason or another. To that end, we've mapped the places to rent in Austin right now.
This new Zilker home in a coveted spot is 3,619 square feet of airy space, glass walls, and sliding doors leading to sun-dappled patios and balconies, all steps from a happening part of South Lamar.
This Zilker neighborhood home, half of a duplex with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, has casually stylish appeal and, at 1,786 square feet, a decent amount of space. And if you get bored, the Alamo Drafthouse is a block away
Giant rolling doors, patios, xeriscaping, decks, and pools were all big hits this week, as buyers snapped up fairly sprawling homes with lots of indoor-outdoor flow in Rob Roy, Tarrytown, Rollingwood, and Zilker.
Austin rents jumped a little from February to March this year but took a big leap when compared to March 2015. Rents rose fastest in places like North Burnet and West University, but rent amounts were higher in other neighborhoods, such as Downtown.
At first it seemed buyers had gone on a bit of a contemporary bender, especially if you include the Austonian condo with the acrylic ghost chairs. But two decadently American estates with hills and views and lakes stepped up to balance the scales.