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Forest Highlands is Flagstaff's most established gated golf community. With pine forests, temperate summers and the San Francisco Peaks creating almost magical backdrops to two top rated golf courses designed by Tom Weiskopf - The Canyon Course and the Meadow Course - Forest Highlands stands apart as possibly the most beautiful golf community in Arizona.
Homes in Forest Highlands range from cottages to sprawling customs on acreage. The first time homebuyer in Forest Highlands pays a one-time capital contribution fee (currently $37,000). HOA fees include memebership to both courses, access to two clubhouses, two swimming pools, tennis courts, and diverse and extensive activities programs for children of all ages.
Adults in Forest Highlands have it all: two golf courses - The Canyon Course being consistently rated in the top 5 of Arizona - a rich tapestry of social groups, golf tournaments, tennis tournaments, hiking clubs, happy hours, book and gourmet cooking clubs, themed dinners, charities and let's not forget parties.
Forest Highlands is also financially healthy, standing out as the Flagstaff's sole golf community to avoid bankruptcy and maintain positive balances throughout our economic downturns.
To find out more about homes in Forest Highlands, contact Eileen, Flagstaff's premiere Golf Property Real Estate agent!
realestateflagstaff@gmail.com or (928) 607-9610
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Visit my Flagstaff Short Sale Site! It's right there!
Sellers, are you considering selling your home and wonder if you need to sell it "short"? Are you looking for an experienced, aggressive team to guide you through the Short Sale Process and successfully sell your home?
Visit my Flagstaff Short Sale Site! I partner with Arizona's most aggressive Short Sale teams to guarantee you success!
Yes, it's that easy.
Eileen
Although our inventory of Flagstaff Bank Owned Homes is thinning out, each month, new foreclosed homes are offered for sale.
If you would like to see only Flagstaff Foreclosures or Flagstaff Bank Owned Homes, offered by price and by neighborhood, feel free to visit my site: Flagstaff Bank Owned.
If you don't see what you like today, feel free to sign up for automatic notifications, browse Flagstaff Short Sales, or search all Flagstaff homes by price or neighborhood!
Don't worry. I won't call you or contact you unless you ask me first. I respect your privacy. When you are ready with questions or to see any properties, call! I answer my phone, or if I cannot, I call you back as soon as I can.
Based on data from the Northern Arizona MLS (insert appropriate disclaimers), the average sale price and median sale price of single family homes in Flagstaff Arizona show an upward trend in 2011!
However, buyers do not purchase homes in a city or a town. They purchase homes in a specific neighborhood whose location and amenities fit their needs.
That is why it is important for Sellers and Buyers alike to know the statistics for their immediate neighborhood.
Ponderosa Trails in Flagstaff, AZ is one of our newest subdivisions. Located in the Southwest of Flagstaff, directly adjacent to I-17, it is a very popular area for both full time Flagstaff residents and Second Home owners. Ponderosa Trails offers our largest selection of newer homes (built after 2000), walking trails, an elementary school, and a location that easily accesses all of Flagstaff.
In 2011, the average price of homes in Ponderosa Trails as well as the median price has risen!
In the first quarter of 2011, the average sale price of a single family home was $306,000.
In the fourth quarter, the average sale price is $322,000.
In the first quarter of 2011, the median price of single family homes in Ponderosa Trails was $300,000.
In the fourth quarter, the median price is $330,000.
Easily search all Flagstaff Homes, Condos, Bank Owned Homes and Short Sales.
For outstanding service you demand and deserve from a Top Producer, feel free to call
Eileen Schreiber at (928) 607 9610 or email at realestateflagstaff@gmail.com
Flagstaff Arizona Neighborhood Report: 2011 Sales of Single Family Homes in University Heights
While the trend in home sale prices in Flagstaff as a whole is UPWARD this year, it is important to look at home prices in specific neighborhoods.
Home Buyers do not simply buy a home, they buy a particular neighborhood.
According to information from the Northern Arizona MLS (insert appropriate disclaimers) University Heights in Flagstaff shows a downward trend in both average sales prices and median sale prices for Single Family Homes.
While the average sale price of a home in University Heights was $289,000 in the first Quarter of 2011, it has lowered to $254,000 in October.
Median prices show a similar downward cycle. While the first quarter median price of a single family home in University Heights was $305, 000, in the fourth quarter it is $254,000.
The fourth quarter is not over yet! We have to wait until January to see how University Heights fares in comparison to the rest of Flagstaff.
Questions about University Heights or Flagstaff? Call Eileen at (928) 607 9610 or email realestateflagstaff@gmail.com.
Easily search all homes for sale in University Heights!
The question is posed daily. How is the market in Flagstaff?
The only way to answer that question is to look at the numbers. What are the average sale prices and median prices of single family homes, townhomes and condos in Flagstaff? What were they in January, and what are they now?
The trend for single family homes is UPWARD! Based on data taken from the Northern Arizona MLS (insert appropriate disclaimers):
The Average Sale Price of all single family homes in Flagstaff in January 2011 was $292,000.
The Average Sale Price of all single family homes in Flagstaff in October 2011 was $341,000.
The Median Price of all single family home sales in Flagstaff in January 2011 was $276,000.
The Median Price of all single family home sales in Flagstaff in October 2011 was $282,000.
The numbers for condominiums and townhome sales in Flagstaff show a slightly downward trend.
In January 2011, the average sale price for condos and townhomes was $212,000.
In October 2011, the average sale price for condos and townhomes was $192,000.
In January 2011, the median price of condo and townhome sales was $225,000.
In October 2011, the median price of condo and townhome sales was $193,000.
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Fantastic Blog by Rebecca Levin. She always posts informative and useful, and fun! posts. Thanks Rebecca! Via Rebecca Levinson, Real Estate Marketing Consultant (Real Skillz-Clear Marketing for Your Real Estate Vision):
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Don't overlook the momentum of push marketing just because we are a socially enabled and 2.0 savvy community online.
Here are 5 Easy Ways to Get In The Swing of Push Marketing Your Blog
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Regardless of the platform you blog on, in or outside of a network, mobilizing your blog is pretty simple. Research your platform and get mobilized.
6. Utilize your whitespace. You have got great real estate Internet property right on your website so make the most of it. If your blog isn't built into your website platform you can still add links advertising your posts or get a simple feed from feedburner added to your website to feed your blog posts. There's also a whitespace on Twitter, Facebook and Linked In called a business profile. Add a link on your business profile to your blog
7. Become Keyword savvy. Savvy? Put in the time to check your keywords on Google before creating your headline and writing on a topic. Write the keywords down that you want to write your post about and then check them on a keyword search tool. If your keywords aren't searched by consumers on the search engines you can't expect the traffic to flood to your posts.
Use your keywords throughout your post. Use your keywords more than once and use variations to increase your keyword density. Do not worry about keyword density after you you have written your post or you will sound robotic and lose your blogging voice in your post which will be a big turnoff for blog readers.
Add keyword friendly footers to your posts so they will get picked up in the search engines.
Every great swing into marketing deserves a push and pull effort. Build your momentum with these 7 easy ways to get into the swing of push marketing your blog.
It's been very smooth sailing for my First Time Homebuyer in Flagstaff. He and his wife found a great home they can afford, and from the minute we presented the offer, we have all felt - "ahhh, this is one of those that is meant to be!" Our offer was accepted, he qualified easily for his VA Loan, inspection went well... home free!
When you think you have experienced all the glitches, a new one rears it's head. It's been almost three weeks and the VA could NOT get an appraiser to accept the assignment! Two appraisers down....
The clock is ticking. We are a bit on edge. But oh joy. The third appraiser said yes, we can breathe again.
Day One. Day Two. Day Three. The appraiser does not call to make an appointment. The VA tells the lenders that the property has been assigned.
Day Four.
I used to be an appraiser and I know there are precious few qualified for VA Appraisals. I called the Lender and asked, "In an off-chance, is the Appraiser Jane Doe?" YES! She's the one who apparently has accepted the assignment.
Well hush my puppies, that is my old boss. As a Realtor I know I am not allowed to speak to appraisers about home values, but nothing stops me from asking her WHY SHE ISN'T MAKING THE APPOINTMENT!!!
Hmm. That old phone number doesn't work. Maybe she changed her company name, I can't find anything close to her name and address in the phone book. The phone number on the order form also doesn't work and there is no email address. ????
My Buyers are getting close to panic.
OMG. Isn't she a Friend of mine on Facebook? FACEBOOK? And lo and behold, she is. In one swift little internet move I find her profile which has her email address and contact her. She responds right away and we soon discover there is a problem with the VA Portal. Thirteen telephone conversations and 26 emails later, Problem Solved!
While I use Facebook mostly for fun, this was a happy way that Facebook actually saved a deal and allowed my Buyers to start breathing again. I know they are grateful for that.
Yipppeee!
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My first-time Home Buyer is the type who, within weeks of searching for her home, knew more about the market than I did. Each night after her two boys were in bed, she sat at her computer researching EVERYTHING about Flagstaff, Arizona properties. She made lists of townhomes, single family homes and manufactureds. She had plus and minus columns. She met with her lender and found out about every first time homebuyer program. When that lender didn't give her excellent service, she switched to one who did.
So, I love her.
We have spent months together trying to find the one, affordable home in Flagstaff that made her heart sing. Her husband said - if you like it honey, I love it. We have wanted her to like it. It's been tough and often disappointing.
Then we found it. Just perfect. The one! Great shape, wonderful loving touches.. home.
We offered, they countered, we accepted. What an absolutely happy time! After months of searching, many disappointing moments and exhaustion, THE ONE!
And then, the appraisal. We knew the appraisal was going to be tight, and we all believed we would have to regroup to make it work. But in the end, I could see that the Sellers would not be able to do it. If they sold at appraisal, we would have to go into a short sale. We had no time.
I couldn't bear the thought of my beautiful first timer losing this house. It was one of those nights where you go to sleep with a knot in the pit of your stomach, dreading the inevitable conversation you must have in the morning. There was no way to avoid it. Ugh.
In the early morning I checked the MLS. And there it was. A BIGGER and NEWER home offered at the same price as the one that was about to slip through our fingers. Could this be true?
Rather than call my sweet client with only bad news, I was able to say - Hey, OK, this one isn't going to work but let's see this other one today, what time can you make it? She was so overwhelmed and confused that she just followed my lead. In a rush to make an unexpected home viewing, she didn't truly have time to process that she just lost her dream home.
This truly is a happy ending.
She loved it, we offered, they accepted without a counter, we are in escrow and there will be no problem with the appraisal. This home is 400 sf bigger than the last!
We are all shaking our heads with happy disbelief at the perfect timing of this journey. With so much gloom and doom, hardship and negativity trying to infilitrate our lives (so it seems), it's wonderful to know first hand that there is opportunity for positive, marvellous and seemingly miraculous surprises.
I received a call at the end of last week from a woman at Zillow.com. She is in Washington State, nowheres near my hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona. The call began in the manner that more and more phonecalls begin:
"Hi. I got your name from the Web".
This woman was not a buyer. Buyer calls that start like that are my #1 favorite. However, this was as close to #1 favorite as I could wish for. This representative of Zillow.com was looking for their "Golf Home of the Week". Zillow.com and GolfDigest partner up to provide that home for Golf Digest's blog, "Deeds and Weeds".
I was absolutely gobsmacked! The reason I was taken aback is that she found my name while looking for a Realtor in one of our premiere Golf Communities, Forest Highlands. Real Estate representation in Forest Highlands has long been dominated by a different company than mine. I only began to list and sell homes in the Highlands within the past two years.
But. And for those of you reading this I know you understand how enormous this "but" is. But. Within the last year, I have spent countless hours honing and improving a web presence, working furiously to get up there, get out there, appear, blink, flash and link when anybody searches for Flagstaff Golf Properties. I don't know about you, but I'm never sure how much all of this web stuff is working. It's an insanely fun way to spend my time, but what is the ratio between time spent typing and clicking, and actual homes sold?
That call was an unexpected but welcome reminder that being out here on the web works! I didn't make a "web sale", but attracting a free and respectable advertising platform that I can then shamelessly use to promote both the property and myself (of course) is priceless. I now know that all of this clicking and typing does help us do what we really need to do in order to succeed in this business:
Stand Out and be Noticed!
If you would like to see this life-changing advert in Deeds and Weeds, please click here.
For all Flagstaff Homes, please see www.TheFlagstaffWebsite.com.
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