San Antonio, Texas Real Estate Blog & Market News - Richard Soto

Useful Tips for Hiring a Terrell Hill's Home Builder

If you want to enter the Terrell Hills new home market, and you have dreams of building your own Terrell Hills new home, then you will likely need to begin the process by finding a great home builder.Luckily, there are plenty of fantastic San Antonio home builders from which to choose; however, you may be quite overwhelmed by which home builder in the Terrell Hills new home market is right for you. Here is our list of tips for entering the Terrell Hills new home market and finding the perfect home builder for you:

• Start the process early so you can use a home builder to help you with all the confusing details that often accompany building a home, such as site selection, home design and written specifications.
• Instead of basing your decision on cost…

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San Antonio Condo Buyers Wooed by Interactive Property Websites

Downtown San Antonio condos are typically known for their luxury, even opulence, so it’s no wonder than developers are luring home buyers of downtown San Antonio condos in with fantastic websites that do more than just inform.  New, exciting, and interactive websites for downtown San Antonio condos are the norm for today’s condo developers. They know that their buyers are usually San Antonio professionals who must maximize their time, even when it comes to shopping for downtown San Antonio condos.

Exciting Websites Highlight Downtown Condos

As a result, a new breed of website is popping up for many of the downtown San Antonio properties, exciting condo developers and grabbing the interest of downtown San Antonio condo buyers everywhere.

The…

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Sunset Villas: Mediterranean Living in Alamo Heights

There is a great supply of Alamo Heights custom homes in this dynamic San Antonio town. If you are looking for exceptional Alamo Heights custom homes, you must take the time to see Sunset Villas, a superb, garden home community of Alamo Heights custom homes that provide a luxurious, exceptional lifestyle for only the most discriminating buyers. The garden villas of Sunset Villas are tops when it comes to Alamo Heights custom homes, and here’s why:

• There are just 15 individually designed villas in each courtyard setting, which are met with a gate-controlled, cobblestone driveway and court.
• Each garden villa features its own home site and its own landscape. There are also no common walls between villas. All homes in this garden home community feature…

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Christmas in San Antonio

There is, perhaps, no better place to spend Christmas than in San Antonio. From holiday exhibits, parades and even lights to impress even the hardest to impress, Christmas in San Antonio is spectacular, so say the least. The best to really experience all the best that Christmas in San Antonio has to offer is to get out there and see for yourself what all the talk is about. Here is a list of our favorite San Antonio Christmas events that the whole family is sure to love!

• Of course, the holidays wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the famed River walk. The River Walk is adorned in more than 100,000 twinkling lights and more than 6,000 luminaries during the Fiesta de la Luminarias, a hundreds-year-old tradition that begins at dusk every Friday,…

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The Best San Antonio Christmas Sites

We love Christmas in San Antonio, probably because there are so many things to see and do! Make sure and take the time to enjoy just a few of the many San Antonio activities during the holiday season and, by all means, stop to enjoy the San Antonio Christmas sites! Here are a few of the San Antonio Christmas sites you won’t want to miss:

• The River Walk is, without a doubt, one of the most popular holiday attractions in San Antonio, as it is transformed every Christmas into a holiday wonderland! Don’t forget to stop at the Museum Ranch section to catch the underwater light displays! Magnificent!
• Everyone knows about Ed Clark’s House in San Antonio, as this is the place where Ed Clark and his wife have put up elaborate Christmas decorations and lights…

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Greater San Antonio Area Market Report Oct-10

San Antonio Board of REALTORS® reports median single-family home price up 0.2% in Oct-10 over Sep-10, sales fall to 1,054.

Oct-10 San Antonio Board of REALTORS® Regional Sales and Price Activity

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The Ins and Outs of Building your San Antonio Home

There is a great selection of San Antonio new home communities, as this dynamic city continues to buck national trends and grow at an impressive rate. If you are looking at purchasing land in one of the San Antonio new home communities so that you can build your home, then there are a few factors you may want to take into consideration.

Building a home in one of the San Antonio new home communitiescan be quite an exciting and fruitful experience, but it also has its share of challenges over purchasing a new home that is already built. If you’re still unsure about whether building a home in one of the San Antonio new home communities is right for you, it is important to consider a number of factors. In the end, the decision whether to build a new home in…

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San Antonio Summit Focuses on Downtown Area

Downtown San Antonio is the heartbeat of the city, without a doubt. It is no wonder, then, that the recent 2010 Community Development Summit at the Convention Center focused on the livability and health of the downtown San Antonio area. From the San Antonio office space market to the San Antonio residential real estate market, the success of downtown San Antonio is vital to the rest of this sprawling city.

Realizing new Opportunities

With the challenges of the last couple years and economic downtown that brought along with it a dramatic downturn in both the residential real estate market and the San Antonio office space market, the 2010 Community Development Summit focused on working to keep the downtown San Antonio area the place for both…

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The Latest Trends in Luxury Home Remodels

Alamo Heights luxury homes are the epitome of wealth and grandeur. They are often tops when it comes to interior and exterior design and architecture, and any remodels are thoughtfully carried out so that luxury abounds. If you are looking to purchase or sell Alamo Heights luxury homes, or if you have a large remodel in mind, here is our list of some of the top remodeling trends found in luxury homes across America:

• Home Automation – Just a click of a switch or the push of a button is all that’s needed to control any number of home gadgets and electronics throughout a luxury home. Home automation has become quite a popular concept over the last few years and, as a result, it is common to find home automation in luxury homes that controls everything…

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San Antonio Halloween Events not to Miss

It was once said that nearly one out of every ten homes in San Antonio is haunted. Whether you believe the myths about San Antonio, you will certainly get spooked by one of the many events going on in and around the city during the month of October. Here are out favorite San Antonio Halloween events:

• Terror Mansion – Located just north of downtown San Antonio, this haunted house will take you through terrorizing mazes among 23 rooms and two stories. This spooky mansion is tops if you’re not scared of things that go bump in the night!
• Nightmare on Grayson – A River Walk tradition, the Nightmare on Grayson has been scaring San Antonians for 22 years and has become a San Antonio tradition for many.
• Ripley’s Haunted Adventure - Located at the site of…

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