Phoenix Real Estate Blog

On Tuesday I blogged about the fact that home prices rose in Phoenix for the third straight month since August 2006. But there's more good news: the number of home sales was up, too -- across the nation, actually -- leading one real estate expert to dub this a real estate "mini-boom."    "There's...

  Home prices rose in the Phoenix area for the third straight month in August ­ – a sign that the real estate market may well have hit bottom and caught the recovery wind. According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the median price of resold homes in the Phoenix area was up 1.6% in Augus...

  In a word: Yes! The anecdotal evidence I’m listing a house for a friend in Queen Creek, one of Phoenix’s “bedroom” communities – hit particularly hard by the real estate crash.  She’s short-selling her house because it’s worth about $150,000, but she owes $290,000.  When we were making a listin...

  From Oktoberfest to Halloween, October in the Valley has events to please folks of every persuasion.  Check them out (and thanks, as always, to About.com for the listings): 4th Friday ArtWalk What: Photography, jewelry, crafts, paintings, sculptures and more. Live music. When: October 23 from 6...

  Imagine lying awake at night listening to your brand new, $357,000, golf course home cracking.  Or needing to replace the roof on your new home even before you replace its light bulbs.  Or being forced to move out – just months after you moved in – because of toxic mold growing in your new home...