Hill Country BBQ, Ranked by a Guy Who Eats Too Much of It
Salt Lick is overrated and I'll say it twice. The actual best BBQ in the Hill Country is sitting in Luling, Llano, and Spicewood, and the drive is the point. He...
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Hill Country Coffee Shops Worth the Drive
Spent most of September driving between showings with a thermos that was empty by 10am. So I started mapping the coffee stops that were actually worth the detou...
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Showed a Wimberley Property Tuesday. Here's What Happened.
Showed a property outside Wimberley Tuesday to a couple relocating from the Bay Area. They'd been watching the market from 1,700 miles away for eight months and...
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Hill Country Market Right Now — September 2026
Four questions came up at showings this month and the answers I actually gave. Fredericksburg is softer than people think, New Braunfels is doing its own thing,...
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Should You Buy a Meritage Home Right Now? A Builder's Take
Meritage builds a fine energy-efficient house for the price. That's not the problem. The problem is what happens in year two when the appraisal district catches...
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Spring Branch vs Bulverde: Which One Do You Actually Want
Buyers call me every week asking about Spring Branch when they mean Bulverde, or the other way around. They're 15 minutes apart and they are not the same purcha...
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What a Custom Home Actually Costs in the Hill Country Right Now
Land in the Austin–Waco–Hill Country region hit a record $8,040 per acre in Q2 2026, up 8.63% year-over-year while the rest of Texas went flat. That's your ...
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Hill Country Market, August 2026: The Numbers
Bulverde's median home price hit $1,052,450 in July while Canyon Lake dropped 10.5%. Same region, same month, wildly different stories. Here's what the numbers ...
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FM 3009 to Seguin: The Real Version
Seguin's median came in at $310,000 in July. Schertz on the other end of the same road hit $416,990. That's a $107K gap on a 20-minute drive, and there are reas...
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