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Troy Knight - Austin & Seattle Real Estate

Austin + Seattle Real Estate
Co-Founder, Rainey Property Group
512.987.5937 | 206.513.1262

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09/02/2026

Thinking pretty seriously about running some home buyer and seller classes here in Austin — separate sessions, not a two-hour info dump trying to cover both sides at once.

The idea: pull up a chair for a couple of hours, walk through what's actually happening in the market right now, how the contract works, and where people leave money on the table without realizing it. Have some drinks, some food - maybe bring in some experts (home inspector, title/escrow people)

Before I book a room and print handouts, I want to know if this is worth doing. Drop a comment:

BUYER — put me in the buyer class.
SELLER — put me in the seller class.

Comment BUYER, SELLER, or both. Enough interest and I'll pick a date.

09/02/2026

This week's Rainey Report is up: why almost 39% of homes that sold in Austin over the last four years never had a single open house (and sold for more than the ones that had four or more), a state law that just let downtown towers hit 1,200 feet, and a South Austin barbecue spot that's now permanently in my rotation.

09/02/2026

Update: Small bathroom restoration. "Improving" my real estate value.

First Notes: Demo is easy - swing hammer, use sawzall, use nail bar, throw crap away.

Rebuilding Notes: Sweat, multiple trips to Home Depot in the same day, frequent "construction language", smashed fingers, and a WHOLE BUNCH of YouTube videos.

Progress: Slow, TBD

08/29/2026

Three big Seattle real estate moves this week, all pointing the same direction:

🏛️ The mayor declared war on permit delays
🚊 A developer bet big on the Roosevelt light rail stop
🏈 A former Seahawk broke ground on 67 affordable homes on Capitol Hill

Plus, this week's Property Spotlight: a hillside Denny-Blaine home that feels like a step back in time!

Read this week's report and subscribe — link's in the comments 👇

08/27/2026

Seattle - Ellen didn't think twice about the cottage she built behind her Wallingford house two years ago. Then this spring, she found out something most homeowners don't know yet: as of 2025, that backyard cottage can legally become its own house. Sellable. Refinanceable. Completely separate from the one she still lives in.

We broke down what it actually costs to pull off, how people are financing it, and why it might be the biggest hidden equity play in Seattle real estate right now.

Full story in the comments 👇

08/27/2026

Redfin just got ordered to un-quit the apartment listings business.

Quick version: last year, Redfin took $100M from Zillow to hand over exclusive apartment-listing rights on its own site. Five state AGs plus the FTC called it anticompetitive and sued. The settlement just came down — Redfin has to rebuild a real rentals arm, and weirdly, gets to hire away Zillow staff to help. Some of those hires might be former Redfin employees who left when the original deal went through. Crazy talk!

08/25/2026

Ever seen a house built almost entirely out of dirt?

Not at all a joke - "Rammed earth" is basically mud pies with better financing and a two-foot-thick sense of purpose. Though rather than the ones we built as kids melting away in the first rainstorm, these walls block Austin heat and street noise for the next hundred years. Turns out people have been building this way for thousands of years, and the West is just now catching on to this "new age" way of building.

This East Austin build started when the design team flew to Arizona because none of them had actually built with rammed earth before. So they learned it with their hands — mixing, forming, tamping — then came home and built a roof that folds into siding and stucco tinted like the desert sky.

So yes. A very expensive, resilient mud pie.

Full story in the comments 👇

08/19/2026

For any of our friends that live on the south side of Austin, it might be worth a scouting trip to see if this place is worth the hype

Designer Kim Lewis mixed original furnishings, retro details and clever budget finds to create the new space’s nostalgic 1970s look.

08/18/2026

This week's Rainey Report is live: Austin just stole "tallest building in Texas" from Houston, the income you need to buy a starter home actually dropped, and somebody in Bouldin Creek did the unthinkable: restored a 1934 bungalow instead of tearing it down. Read the full edition and subscribe so you never miss one → https://bit.ly/4gdLEIs

08/11/2026

Spend time outside in Austin right now and you’ll break a sweat fast. But for home sellers, here’s the hard truth: buyers are cool as can be. From the air-conditioned comfort of Zillow, they’re sizing up your home, judging the price, and dropping the listing into Claude or ChatGPT to ask “is this actually worth it?”

Inventory’s near double a balanced market, more than half of active listings have already cut their price, and the houses actually moving are the ones priced for 2026 instead of 2022.

We break down exactly what shifted, and what it means whether you’re buying or selling, in this week’s Rainey Report. Read it free and subscribe → https://bit.ly/4whyobN

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