January 2008

Mortgage Rate Looking Good – Below 6% Now

January 11, 2008

WASHINGTON (Associated Press) Rising worries about a weak economy pushed rates on 30-year mortgages below the 6 percent mark for only the second time in more than two years. Freddie Mac reported this week that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.87 percent this week, down from 6.07 percent last week. The following types of mortgages also [...]

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Austin Sellers Still Making Homes Hard to Show

January 6, 2008

I’ve been out showing homes the past couple of days and once again I observe something that astounds me. Sellers who obstruct the showing of their homes for trivial and dumb reasons. For those not aware of how showings work in Austin, most MLS listings have the agent showing instructions “Call and Go”, which means [...]

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Austin Job Market is Great

January 3, 2008

From today’s Austin business journal is the report below describing Austin’s plentiful job market. Jobs bring more people, which means more renters and buyers. On a side note, Sylvia and I have been slammed the past two days. After a sluggish October thru December, our phones are ringing off the hooks with buyers and sellers [...]

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