theurbansquared™

est. 2007

History

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2007, Urban Squared Realty defined what the brick & mortar, high-visibility-high-design, hyper-local, full-service urban brokerage - serving Austin's most well known brands, landmarks, Austinies, and even #1 in-class global companies through the intricate challenges of urban leasing, residential and commercial real estate.

welcome to hyper-local, existential real estate

you are the story
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you are the agent

the new way

Different market, different approach and service basis.

The next form and version of real estate is a 360-degree experience and service basis, attendant skill set and strategies that move the needle.
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Every aspect of real estate has become more competitive, specialized, and demanding - from material costs to marketing costs.
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Residential sales, leasing, design, curation, and media and marketing oversight each carry their own economics, challenges, and tradecraft. Lending, legal considerations, and changing consumer expectations further complicate the equation. Understanding one discipline is no longer enough to recognize the full opportunity or navigate the obstacles. The fair-weather market has produced its share of self-proclaimed marketers and agents who have moved to other roles and industries. Now hyper-local, full-service brokerage perspective and service-basis wins again - redesign, remodel, re-market, multi-market are all aspect that have to be considered when the market, inventory and competition are all more challenging than they have been in the industry as the industry finally Crosses the Rubicon into AI.
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At street level, the economics have changed just as dramatically. Airbnb, for example, is no longer the straightforward revenue opportunity it once appeared to be. Margins, competition, and operational realities have changed the equation. The historic easy-money assumptions surrounding leasing and residential have given way to more vacancies, worse balance sheet YTY.
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The future of real estate-for Austin buyers, renters, and sellers is greatly differentiated perspective with a top-down holistic service basis that's modern media-comprehensive, supported by genuine experience, strategy, local tradecraft. Meet our bench of the citie's apex brokers, agents, lenders, builders, subcontractors, and legal services.
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HVTs have changed. Commissions may be lower, but the landscape also presents new opportunities, different relationships, and a broader real estate diaspora on the horizon. The next generation of value isn't necessarily found in the transaction alone. It's in a more complete understanding of real estate, its economics, its possibilities, and the expertise required to bring them together.

Seasonal Q4 Open Invitational

limited sign up- let's meet:

connect with our bench
connect with our tech
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brokerage
lending
legal
contractors
media
property management
360 STR/LTR leasing
experiential designers

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James Hill started the urban squared realty concept in 2007 with one of the nation's first brokerages in a high-visibility retail space concepts. This allowed the brand to flourish during the economic downturn, becoming the largest-full-service brokerage in Austin, Texas for over a decade in all sectors of real estate in the urban core—leasing, residential sales, and commercial (leasing and sales)
while closing over millions of dollars of real estate deals across a history of 350 agents in every area of the city. James Hill and his brand have largely been associated with ScCo and their first office on south congress, and their well-known midtown office across from Alamo Drafthouse, and the brokerage brands landmark Caesar Chavez office complete with mini-ramp and David Bowie Aladdin Sane era mural.
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founder - james hill

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