BETTER ACT QUICK!!! Austin has FLASH SALES...FLASH, THEY'RE GONE!

See a "For Sale" sign in front of the house of your dreams? You'd better act fast — a new report says that Austin has one of the fastest housing markets in the United States.
The data comes from Seattle-based real estate firm Redfin, which has coined the term "Real Estate Flash Sales" for homes that go under contact within only hours of listing. Austin ranks No. 5 on the nationwide list, counting 163 flash sales within the past five months.
Dallas and Houston pulled ahead, at Nos. 4 and 3 in the ranking, with 184 and 188 flash sales during the five-month time period.

Austin ranks No. 5 on the nationwide list, counting 163 flash sales within the past five months.

"Metropolitan areas in Texas and non-coastal regions are the best places to find a real estate bargain," states a new study.  An online real estate broker, compared median home sale prices to median household income to determine that Texas metro areas are the best places to find a real estate bargain.
Dallas-Fort Worth ranks No. 1 on its list of the Most Affordable Housing Markets of 2013, followed by Houston at No. 2 and Austin at No. 7.
In DFW, where the median household income is $47,418 and the median home price is $249,950, the ratio is 5.27; in Houston, it's 5.43 (considering a $44,761 median income and a $243,000 median home price). Austin's median household income is $48,950, and a median home price is $300,000, yielding a 6.13 ratio.