Archive for December, 2008

What a great time to buy a home in Austin and the Hill Country!  Mortgage rates on 30 year fixed-rates are at the lowest they have been since 1971!  This was the ninth consecutive week for a drop!
Interest rates on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to an average of 5.10 percent for the week ending [...]

The 2008 Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is under way in downtown Austin at the Austin Convention Center…If you love live music and you love to shop, then whatever you do, get yourself downtown and don’t miss this terrific event! It runs from Dec. 12-24th!  For a mere $3 during the day and $6 on evenings and week-ends, [...]

Okay out there all you first time home buyers..2009 is going to be your year!  It will be the year that you bought the best house imaginable at the best possible price and for an incredible interest rate that you wisely locked in for thirty years!  You worked on your credit score and got it [...]

Here at Cool Houses Austin, we recently enrolled in an Eco-Broker course taught in Austin and are so excited to share some of the information with our readers.  Did you know that  you can install some of these home improvements rather easily,  save money on your utility bills and get reimbursed from your local utility company to [...]

Here at Cool Houses Austin, we recently enrolled in an Eco-Broker course taught in Austin and are so excited to share some of the information with our readers.  Did you know that  you can install some of these home improvements rather easily,  save money on your utility bills and get reimbursed from your local utility company to [...]


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I'm Vicki E. Phillips and I am a licensed real estate broker in both Texas and Florida. I am also a certified “EcoBroker” which means that I care very much about sustainability and green living!