phoenix real estate: Real Estate Recruitment Announcement Education Advisory Committee - 06/16/09 06:01 AM
The State of Arizona Department of Real Estate is looking for Real Estate professionals to join an advisory Board called the Education Advisory Committee.  The goal is to get input from real estate proctitioners on effective ways to raise the level of real estate professionalism in Arizona through appropriate education requirements and initiatives.  The announcement below contains the contact information and requirements for members on the real estate industry in Arizona to volunteer to join the Education Advisory Committee.
Bill Austin Phoenix Real Estate News
 
Recruitment Announcement Education Advisory Committee

Arizona Real Estate Commissioner Judy Lowe extends an invitation … (0 comments)

phoenix real estate: Valley Builder Begins Third Dunkin’ Donuts - 06/02/09 04:32 PM
Valley Builder Begins Third Dunkin’ Donuts Tempe builder remains busy with small business commercial projects TEMPE, Ariz. - Don’t take your eyes off the road too long, but yes, Dunkin’ Donuts has a new look, and Tempe-based Sanctuary Builder is bringing it to the Valley. On April 22, 2009, the commercial builder began construction on its third Dunkin’ Donuts project, which will showcase the chain’s spruced up exterior, chic interior and retro-like motif.
“Dunkin’ Donuts is an excellent example of taking a brand and carrying it through from product to packaging to their store designs,” explained Karl Tunberg, co-founder and CEO … (1 comments)

phoenix real estate: Phoenix Real Estate - 11/14/08 04:51 AM
Housing prices declined on residential resale real estate in the greater Phoenix Area.
Phoenix Real Estate
In October 2008, a total of 8,210 resale homes recorded as sold. Foreclosure activity represented 47 percent (3,745 transactions) and 4,465 traditional market transactions.
Continued weakness depends on the ability of people to remain employed or get back to work quickly.
Foreclosure activity differs throughout the Valley such as 43 percent in Surprise, 32 percent in Tempe and 50 percent in Avondale. Over the next few months, recorded foreclosure activity could decline because of the response to various mortgage modification programs offered by lenders … (2 comments)

phoenix real estate: Phoenix Real Estate - 07/06/08 02:30 PM
I was looking at the Phoenix Real Estate site this morning and I noticed this article about Real Estate Consumers Spending more time on major real estate sites.  It led me to think about whether that is a good thing or a bad thing. 
Basically,  Realtor.com and Move.com announced that during May 2008, consumers continued to increase time spent searching real estate on the Move Network, including Realtor.com. The homes-for sale web site announced that recent year-over-year data from comScore indicated that minutes spent per unique user in May 2008 grew by six percent on REALTOR.com and by three percent on … (1 comments)

phoenix real estate: Mortgage Company Layoffs - 06/26/08 03:45 PM
A friend just wrote to say that her job of seven weeks as a compliance officer at a mortgage banker in Scottssdale has been eliminated and more layoffs are coming.  If any of you know of anybody hiring in the compliance area,  and in the Greater Phoenix Arizona area, please let me know and I will forward the information to her.
Thank you,
Bill Austin
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phoenix real estate: Arizona Real Esate Bloggers Network - 06/20/08 11:05 AM
What a tremendous turnout for the Arizona Real Estate Bloggers Network meeting this morning.
If you check out Christoph Schweiger on twitter you should find some photos and tweats about the goings on.
Steve Belt and Mike Jones and Jay Thompson and Shelli Bates and Bill Austin (that's me.) all gave classes on various topics related to real estate and blogging.  My presentation was on Social Media and Social Networking and Why?
If you are in the greater Phoenix Arizona area and want to learn more about Blogging as a marketing strategy for real estate, I would strongly encourage you to … (4 comments)

phoenix real estate: Phoenix Real Estate Problems - 06/17/08 02:05 PM
Problems with Phoenix Real Estate The page on East Valley Living entitled Phoenix Real Estate has this statement on it.
"The Phoenix Arizona MLS Real Estate Listings Real Estate section requires a browser that supports frames. If you receive an error message indicating that the Phoenix Real Estate Listings cannot be displayed on this site, you may have to add evliving.com to your anti-virus or browser privacy tool settings."
Apparently, when people are using Norton Internet Security and several of the other privacy software products, the privacy software will prevent the address from being sent back to the ARMLS server and … (0 comments)

phoenix real estate: Arizona MLS and Phoenix Real Estate News - 06/11/08 09:42 AM
A couple of the East Valley Living major real estate resource pages are moving. People searching for Arizona MLS on Google have always found ARMLS - the Arizona Regional Multiple Lisitng Service listed at number one.  Since around 2003, they have found number 2 and #3 (or sometimes #3 and #4) to be the useful and worthwhile page they are actually searching for.  Google is sometimes funny like that. Consumers searching for something they will find useful don't always get what they are looking for because the commercial interests win out.
Due to a major redesign of the East Valley Living … (2 comments)

phoenix real estate: Phoenix Real Estate For Canadian Investors - Arizona Acquisition Fund - 06/10/08 04:00 AM
Canadian Investors Buy Undervalued Phoenix Real Estate CBI Group launches Arizona Acquisition Fund to purchase Undervalued Phoenix Real Estate for Canadian Investors.
CBI Group, the new face of Keystone Real Estate Investments, has announced the launch of a fund that will allow Canadian investors to profit from the downturn of the Phoenix Arizona housing market. The Arizona Acquisition Fund will raise up to 12.5 million (Cdn) to purchase approximately 175 single-family homes in the Phoenix area over the next 12 months.
The Arizona Acquisition Fund is an opportunity for Canadian investors to enhance and diversify their portfolios without the traditional hassles … (1 comments)

phoenix real estate: 10 City Real Estate Report - 06/10/08 03:37 AM
Real Estate Report Shows Housing Prices Down By 0.3% in May with prices falling in 11 of 26 metropolitan markets. National housing inventory continues to rise versus April.National real estate report sees the weakest local real estate trends in Florida, California, Arizona, and Nevada. The Altos 10-City Composite Price Index showed a decline in asking prices of just 0.3% in May. Prices of properties listed for-sale increased in 15 of 26 major markets according to the Real-Time Real Estate Report, jointly published by Altos Research, the premier source for real-time real estate research, and market analysis consultancy Real IQ™.The report examines … (0 comments)

phoenix real estate: Arizona Foreclosure Prevention Task Force Update - 05/28/08 03:21 PM
I was notified today that Phoenix Arizona based Community Information & Referral was selected as the service provider for the Arizona Department of Housing's Foreclosure Prevention Counseling Hotline.  The phone number will be 1-877-448-1211.  In case you missed the earlier post about the Arizona Foreclosure Prevention Task Force Here is some information from the new website for the Arizona Foreclosure Prevention Task Force:  
Arizona Foreclosure Prevention Task Force
 
The Arizona Foreclosure Prevention Task Force is a Taskforce Helping to Reduce and Prevent Residential Foreclosures in Arizona.
OBJECTIVES: • Prevent 4,000 foreclosures in 2008. • National Ad Council ad run … (0 comments)

phoenix real estate: Bill Austin - Phoenix Real Estate Media - 03/30/08 03:03 PM
I am seeking real estate agents and brokers who are writing articles about the current and future state of the real estate and mortgage industry in Arizona. I have contacted all of the real estate people I know in this area and still have room for more articles in our publication.
If you have an interest in another venue for self-promotion and in communicating your knowledge about the Arizona real estate market, please feel free to contact me or write to the editor and request additional information.
Real Estate articles of general interest are also welcome but will not be as … (2 comments)