Many people selling their homes in the Austin area think that the very best source of buyers for their homes are people from California. Marketing to that group can be a pretty good strategy, as long as you realize you'd be focusing on the 2nd most likely state from which your buyers will probably move.

For quite some time, including this month, buyers are most likely to come to Austin from another location within the great state of Texas.  As a matter of fact, online search results show that prospects from Texas outnumber those from California every month this year by as much as 13 to 1 in some months.

Houston is still the most likely place a buyer will move from when coming to the Austin area. Dallas follows and of course Ft Worth is high on the list of Texas cities from which prospects are perusing homes in Austin. This make ssense of course, since those are among the largest cities in Texas.

What surprises most home sellers is that the highest county in CA on the list usually comes in anywhere from 6-9... while home buyers in the Austin area continue to move in from other cities in Texas.

Tennessee is 3rd to California when it comes to the number of prospects looking at homes in Austin online.

One of the reasons for this is simply that many Texans want to remain in the state, and Austin is considered the best place to be in Texas. Say what you want about those California buyers, we are HAPPY to have them, but if your home in on the market in the Austin Texas real estate market, more buyers are looking at Austin TX homes from Texas than anywhere else and your most likely buyer will be from Texas!