lake travis: Austin Area Waterfront Neighborhoods - 09/10/08 03:56 PM
Anyone who knows Central Texas knows the Highland Lakes. The most popular and closest to Austin is Lake Travis. I recently created a few new neighborhood listing pages for my website. The feature Vineyard Bay on Lake Travis and Marble Falls and Horseshoe Bay. Not all properties are on the water, … (0 comments)
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lake travis: Austin Luxury Homes Market Update - 07/02/08 05:03 PM
Austin not well known for luxury real estate - yet, but there definitely is a market for luxury real estate in Austin. By luxury, I am specifically talking about single-family homes that sell for over $1 million. When talking about Austin, the area is a 5 county area that includes the … (0 comments)
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lake travis: Where is Austin Growing? Follow the Water - 07/01/08 10:10 AM
New water restrictions were announced today for communities south of Austin. San Marcos, New Braunfels San Antonio and parts of the southern Austin area other communities draw water from the Edwards Aquifer. The Edwards is huge, but these cities and others pull huge amounts of water out of it. Without much … (0 comments)
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lake travis: Video Challenge from Austin - 09/24/07 01:09 PM
When most people think of Austin, especially if they have not been here, they think it is flat and boring like Dallas and Houston. On the contrary, the western part of Austin is incredible. Look at this photo and see for yourself. I created photo albums a while ago on my website … (4 comments)
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lake travis: Is It Legal To Get High In Graveyard Point? - 09/05/07 05:05 PM
Strange title, right? OK, so I baited you. The real question is how can I build if my land is in the new Lake Travis floodplain? Here is one way I just found today. This is in Graveyard Point. Anyone who knows Lake Travis knows that Graveyard Point is one of the … (12 comments)
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lake travis: Lake Travis Flooding - 07/02/07 11:38 AM
This is Lake Travis from the Iguana Grill a couple of months ago. As you can see, the lake was pretty low then. We had been in a drought for around three years and the future wasn't looking good - until... This is the lake after consistent rain, including around 19 inches … (1 comments)
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lake travis: Floodgates Are Open - 06/27/07 07:41 PM
This is a distant shot of the 4 open floodgates in Mansfield Dam, which holds back Lake Travis. Lake Travis is just west of Austin. Marble Falls, which is west and upstream got around 18 inches of rain last night. This reain reportedly fell in just 3-4 hours. That is more … (3 comments)
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lake travis: The Iguana Grill - 06/05/07 04:19 PM
I posted a couple of photos the other day that show how much Lake Travis has filled up. I took them from the Iguana Grill. The Iguana has become quite a cool place to hang out, especially after the Oasis burned. After that fire, the Iguana became the place to go … (2 comments)
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lake travis: Lake Travis Fuller Than Full - 06/03/07 01:26 PM
From this in November, 2006...To this on May 31, 2007. Isn't it amazing what a little rain does! … (0 comments)
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lake travis: The Lake Is Up - 05/12/07 01:50 PM
Lake Travis is back to where it needs to be. After a prolonged drought, the area that drains into Lake Travis has had quite a bit of rain. A couple of days ago, Lake Travis cracked the 672 feet above sea level height, putting it at about its normal level for … (0 comments)
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lake travis: Lake Travis On The Rise - 03/26/07 05:38 PM
Showing waterfront property on Lake Travis when the lake is 35 feet low is not easy. People not from the area have a hard time visualizing the lake when full. Rain from two weekends ago raised the level if Lake Travis about 7 feet. More rain yesterday and today will probably … (3 comments)
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lake travis: Lake Travis Photos - 03/20/07 02:58 PM
For anyone who has not been to Lake Travis, west of Austin, you're in for a treat. I put together a Lake Travis photo album on my Austin real estate website just to give people a visual. Lake Travis is amazing. It sits in the Hill Country and can have huge main … (4 comments)
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lake travis: $800,000 Tear-Down - 02/14/07 02:29 PM
I was told yesterday by a friend who works for a builder that a Lake Travis waterfront house built in 1969 was just sold for around $800,000. The view is much like what you see in the photo to the left which shows Lake Travis last Spring. Oh, if you like … (0 comments)
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lake travis: Growth to the West of Austin - 12/22/06 05:52 PM
I posted on another blog about the tremendous growth in western Travis and northern Hays Counties in Central. This is basically the area west and southwest of Austin in the Hill Country. The projections are staggering. Granted, this is a fabulous area in which to live, but this kind of growth … (0 comments)
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lake travis: Lake Travis Lowest in 42 Years - 12/07/06 10:52 AM
Lake Travis, the gem of the Central Texas Highland Lakes, is now at its lowest point in 42 years. The extended drought combined with the need to release water downstream has dropped the lake to around half full (or half empty). Our area hasn't seen a tropical system in years. The … (2 comments)
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lake travis: Bella Montagna Lot Listing - 11/10/06 06:09 AM
I have a lot in Bella Montagna that has an incredible view. Bella Montagna was home to the Parade of Homes a year ago. It is a very exclsuive, gated community off of RM 620 just north of Lakeway Blvd. The lots are all 1+ acres and I doubt there will … (0 comments)
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lake travis: Lake Travis level fluctuation challenges - 11/01/06 06:38 PM
Lake Travis, just west of Austin, is a fabulous place to own waterfront property. What some people don't realize is that the level of the lake almost never stays the same. The full level of Lake Travis is 681 feet above mean sea level. The highest it has ever been was … (0 comments)
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