Breaking News: Austin Places Second Among Best Performing Cities
Posted by Monte Davis on
More good news for the Austin investment real estate market. The 2010 Milken Institute's Best-Performing Cities Index is out and we're number 2 on the list. Basically this is an index that tries to measure how well a metropolitan economy is growing while creating and sustaining jobs. They look at a mixture of job/wage/salary data with heavy emphasis on technological growth. (The data is also taken as an excellent indicator of overall regional economic stability.)
Here are some of the highlights of what they have to say about Austin:
- Unemployment in Austin peaked at 7.3 percent, approximately three percent under the national average.
- Austin exhibits a number of positive and inter-related qualities: low cost of doing business favorable…
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