Buying a home in this month could save you $23,000 in Austin

Conventional wisdom is that spring is the best time to buy a house, but does that hold true for Austin? A new study from NerdWallet and Realtor.com identified January as the cheapest month to buy a house in the Austin area — prices were 9.2 percent lower than the summer median, when homes sell for the most. That translates to an average savings of more than $23,000 for homebuyers. Researchers only analyzed listings and sales data for 2014 and 2015, so it's hard to say if those trends hold up…

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