Hancock Guest Cottages provides Austin vacation rentals and corporate housing ideally located in central Austin minutes away from downtown, museums, the Capitol, Medical Center, and University campus.

Relocating, remodeling, or looking for real estate?

Are you in transition? If you are moving or relocating to Austin or are renovating your property, this is the perfect location for your family.

Greetings from Austin!

Temporary Work Assignment?

The Hancock Guest Cottage is ideal for filmmakers, professors, or anyone here on temporary work assignment.

Getting married?

Why not host your family in one of our Cottages rather than renting two or three hotel rooms?

 

Looking for real estate?

As realtors we have experience assisting individuals and families repatriating from around the world. We help homebuyers search for real estate in Austin and offer competitive rates on short leases.

  1. 10 Best Cities for the Next Decade

    They're prosperous, innovative, and they'll generate plenty of jobs, too. Austin ranks #1. July 2010. Austin is arguably the the country's best crucible for small business, offering a dozen community programs that form a neural network of business brainpower to help entrepreneurs.

    By the Editors of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine

  2. Best Cities for Jobs – Monster.com ranks Austin number one for jobs in 2010 and lists the criteria needed for creating jobs in the future that are a great match for Austin: 1) Tech companies are moving there, 2) Universities and research parks collaborate with the local business community. 3) The political climate is business-friendly. 4) There’s a high concentration of entrepreneurs. 5) A large proportion of the residents have a bachelor’s degrees or higher.

  3. The Brookings Institute released their quarterly in-depth analysis which ranks Austin the third most recession proof city in the U.S. The Brookings Institute MetroMonitor analyzes the health of America’s 100 largest metropolitan economies. It examines trends in metropolitan-level employment, output, and housing conditions to look “beneath the hood” of national economic statistics to portray the diverse metropolitan trajectories of recession and recovery across the country.

    Read the MetroMonitor Performance Report, June 29, 2010

  4. Ten boom towns with resilient economies, growing industries, and lots of job potential. Knowledge workers, take note. – BNET ranks Austin number one for job growth over the next decade. “Over the next decade, the best jobs are going to go to the cities with the industries and the entrepreneurial incentives in place to support a highly educated, tech-savvy workforce.”

  5. Austin was picked as the No. 1 best city to live in for the next 10 years in a Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. The magazine cited the capital city's innovative thinking, plentiful music venues, lakes, parks, unique business climate and job-creation tendencies.
    Read more: Austin 'crucible for small business' - Austin Business Journal
    The article: Austin Best City May 27, 2010

  6. FORBES ranks Austin 2nd Most Innovative. The report said Austin benefits from such resident innovators as Round Rock-based Dell Inc. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. The University of Texas's Cockrell School of Engineering and IBM Corp's Austin research lab were also cited as the city's "secret weapon."  May 25, 2010
    Read more: Forbes: Austin No. 2 most innovative - Austin Business Journal

  7. Out of 100 most popular retirement towns for 2010, Austin ranks number 5! The cultural and other activities associated with The University of Texas is a major draw. Our cosmopolitan and high-tech, quirky soul is another. Plus, we has a relatively low cost of living.
    By Robert Powell, MarketWatch
  8. Texas job growth tops nation for the decade - Texas continued to make strides in private sector job growth during the past 10 years. Texas led the nation with 724,300 more net private sector jobs in December 2009 compared with one decade ago.  Over the last 10 years only two of the 10 largest states, Texas and Florida, had positive job growth.  “Texas’ business, tax, and economic policies created an environment where businesses can succeed and create jobs.” (Source: Austin Business Journal, U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics and Texas Workforce Commission)

  9. FORBES–Best U.S. Cities To Earn A Living: Forget New York and L.A. The best career prospects are in these places.  Austin ranks #4.  September 2009.
    by Francesca Levy

  10. Austin was ranked eighth in Kiplinger's Personal Finance list of the country's best cities. Austin scored highly due to its solid job growth and stable economy.  July 2009
    by Jane Bennett Clark

  11. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that once again Austin was the only major city in the nation to add jobs last year. April 2009 marks the third consecutive month Austin has outperformed all other cities.

  12. In a list of the nation's top cities for relocation compiled by Relocation.com, Austin placed first.  The city's economic-growth forecast, housing affordability and strength of the community contributed to its success.   Summer 2009

  13. America's Best Bargain Cities
    Four other Texas cities make the list of America's Best Bargain Cities, but none come close to Austin, whose 5.5% unemployment is the best in the country and about half the national average. May 14, 2009
    by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

  14. Austin ranks No. 1 for job growth potential
    Texas dominates a new list on job growth potential among the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. Austin ranks No. 1 on the list of big cities for employment potential from NewGeography.com. Texas’ major metros round out the top five spots on the big cities list, with Houston coming in 2nd, San Antonio 3rd, Fort Worth-Arlington 4th and Dallas 5th.

  15. Your Money: It May be Time to Think About Buying a House (New York Times)
    Five or 10 years from now, when the financial crisis has ended and housing prices are up smartly once more, we will look in the rearview mirror and realize that we missed a golden age for first-time home buyers.  December 6, 2008
    by Ron Lieber

  16. America's Fastest-Growing Large And Small Metros (FORBES)
    Projected total GMP growth, 2007-2012: 32.05% (Austin ranked the No.1 city to seek out)
    by Brian Wingfield and William Pentland

  17. Best and Worst Places to Buy a House (ENTREPRENEUR.com)
    Cities you should seek out and avoid in 2008 (Austin ranked No. 1)
    by Danielle Babb

  18. Best Cities To Buy A Home (FORBES)
    Ten spots worthy of a mortgage.  (Austin ranked No. 2)
    by Maurna Desmond

  19. Best Cities For Young Professionals (FORBES)  (Austin ranked No. 9)
    The 40 top spots for climbing the ladder.
    by Matt Woolsey

  20. Austin was named third on the Forbes.com list of the top 10 "Recession-Proof Cities" in the United States.

    To create the list, the magazine looked at the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, examining key measures, such as unemployment data, non-farm-related job growth, median home prices and data from a 2007 report titled, "U.S. Metro Economies: The Mortgage Crisis" by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

    At number three, Austin was right behind San Antonio, which grabbed the second spot thanks to solid employment figures and affordable home prices that continue to rise.

    For its part, Austin was lauded for being a hip town with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.

  21. Austin ranks among nation's brainiest, recent study shows
    by Sandra Zaragoza ABJ Staff (AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL)
    Austin is known as a weird and great place to live, but it's also one of the smartest places in the nation.

  22. Austin is fourth in best cities for job hunting
    by AnnaMaria Andriotis, September 17, 2008 (SMARTMONEY.com)