Welcome to the eighth edition of the MyPhoenixMLS area-specific market conditions update. Today, I’ll describe what’s gone on in the Scottsdale, Paradise Valley and Phoenix area real estate markets this past month. Scottsdale The number of homes resold in Scottsdale in September was flat compa
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10/30/2008
The trend began in California but quickly spread to other states where the housing boom was taking off -- Nevada, Florida, and our own Grand Canyon State: rows upon rows of new tract homes -- large homes, often with expensive amenities but cut from similar (not exactly the same) molds. In fact
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10/30/2008
Welcome to the eighth edition of the MyPhoenixMLS area-specific market conditions update. Today, I’ll post market conditions reports for the East Valley, including Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, and Mesa; in my next post I’ll describe market conditions in the Scottsdale and Phoenix markets. Chandle
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10/28/2008
It’s here again: time to produce my monthly Phoenix area real estate news video for Realty Times. Read on for a snapshot of what went on in the Phoenix area in September. Did you miss my last Realty Times news video? You can check it out here: http://realtytimes.com/REUv/BobStahl Enjoy! RT:
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10/28/2008
In August I wrote a post about real estate-related propositions that would show up on the November ballot. As November 4 is fast approaching, I thought I’d take a more in-depth look at one of those propositions, which has caused quite a stir around town. The proposition is 201, known as the “H
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10/22/2008
Last month, the clock in New York City that tracks the national debt ran out of room. “Last month, as the national debt exceeded $10 trillion for the first time, the clock ran out of digits to record the number.” Clearly, the federal government has some budget problems -- namely, that it can’
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10/16/2008
I’ve been getting regular e-mails from a friend of mine who used to be a financial adviser and still avidly follows the stock market. He’s been talking for a while about the stock market bottom -- it’s been elusive. A look at his notes over the last few weeks is instructive: Monday, September 2
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10/14/2008