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Considering moving to Austin? Want to find out what awards Austin has won and what others think about living here? Find out why Austin is one of America's best places to relocate on our Austin Accolades Blog.

Don't miss our Guide to Relocating to Austin section, our Best Austin Neighborhoods Blog and our Researching Your Move Blog for more insider home buying and relocation tips!

Austin Named One of the World’s Best Cities for Dating

December 29, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

While most “best of” lists focus on things for families, kids and adults at a completely different place in their lives, this newest Austin accolade should be a pleasant surprise for single people moving to Austin or living in Austin. This time, Austin is not just on a best of US list, but a best […]

Filed Under: Living in Austin Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Researching Your Move

Austin Named #1 on Best US Cities for Job Seekers List

December 28, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

Will it be hard to find a job when you relocate to Austin? A study by NerdWallet says no! We’ve witnessed this scenario many many times with our clients. They want to move to Austin, but are scared to take the plunge because they aren’t sure how long it will take them to find a […]

Filed Under: Relocation Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Growth, Job Market, Researching Your Move

Austin Named #1 on Best US Cities for Millennial Home Buyers

December 27, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

Millennial home buyers have been getting a bad rap in the press. Rising student loan debt, desire to live in expensive areas and lagging wage increases have been cited as reasons Millennials haven’t taken the plunge to being home owners. Many are reluctant to buy, which has led to the lowest homeownership rates for young […]

Filed Under: Buyers Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Growth, Researching Your Move

Austin Showed 7th Highest Appreciation in the US

December 23, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

In a recent study by RealtyTrac, metros with a population of 500,000 or more were analyzed to find the cities that had the highest appreciation in 2014. RealtyTrac analyzed median sales price in year over year numbers and found Austin showed the 7th highest appreciation in the US. All of the cities in the top […]

Filed Under: Real Estate Price Reports Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Growth, Housing Market, Timing the Market

Austin Named #1 College Town in Big City Category

December 19, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

If we don’t have much to do with the University of Texas at Austin (UT), we sometimes forget it’s there. But, we shouldn’t as it is one of the main reasons our economy is booming and job market is strong. Though Austin is moving away from its small “college town” roots, it still is not […]

Filed Under: Living in Austin Tagged With: Austin Accolades

Austin Named 6th Best Food City in the US

December 16, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

When we first relocated to Austin from San Francisco about 6 years ago, we were not too impressed with the restaurant choices here in Austin. But, as we figured out we just didn’t know where to go. In San Francisco, we knew all the great restaurants and admittedly, we had years to figure it out. […]

Filed Under: Restaurants Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Food

Austin Named #3 in Best Cities for Recent College Grads List

November 29, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

Livability recently did a list of the Top 10 Best Cities for Recent College Grads and Austin was named the #3 best US city on that list. Livability looked at number of 25-34 year olds in a city, number of jobs available, hot jobs and top employers. Why Austin and what other cities were considered […]

Filed Under: Living in Austin Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Researching Your Move

Austin Named One of 15 Hottest American Cities for 2015

November 28, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

As we put another Thanksgiving in the books and are coming up on the end of 2014, a lot of us are probably starting to look to next year and what 2015 might bring. If 2015 includes a relocation for you, you probably want to make sure it’s the right move so you don’t have […]

Filed Under: Living in Austin Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Researching Your Move

Austin Named #1 US City Driving the Future

November 26, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

The Milken Institute recently released their list of best performing cities and – no surprise here – Austin found it’s way to the top of that list. Milken noticed the top 25 performing US cities were either highly invested in the tech or energy industries (shale and natural gas particularly) and all had impressive growth. […]

Filed Under: Living in Austin Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Researching Your Move

Austin Ranks 8th Best Foodie City for Your Wallet

October 21, 2014 By Rebecca Jacks

Austin has long been known as a great foodie city, with many of the nation’s top chefs opening restaurants. Today we have bonus news for foodies on a budget, Austin was just named the 8th Best Foodie City for Your Wallet by WalletHub. Austin is no newcomer to “best of” lists, notably 3rd Coolest City […]

Filed Under: Living in Austin Tagged With: Austin Accolades, Growth

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