"Valley of the Sun Real Estate"

As of today there are 55,632 listings, of those there are 45,556 single family homes for sale in Arizona. Listings are down from last months report where there were 57,797 home for sale, of those there were 47,461 single family homes. As you can see the numbers are looking better. Contrary to wha...

Today in an article from Realtor Magazine I read that the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA), and the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) believe that tougher/stricter lending standards are havi...

As of today there are 57,797 homes for sale in Arizona. Of those there are 47,461 single family homes for sale in Arizona. From March 1, 2008 there have been 3,361 homes sold in Arizona. As of March 1, 2008 there were 2,824 single family homes sold in Arizona.At this rate it would take 17.2 month...

There are currently 57,405 listings in the ARMLS database. Out of those there are 47,219 single family homes listed for sale on our data base. There were 3,449 listings that sold in February. Of those, 2,896 were single family homes that sold.Those numbers are not as good as I was hoping they wou...

When will the downturn/decline end? That is the trillion dollar question isn't it? I hear it about everyday, as I am sure you do too. While there is no magic answer for this question, there are always those who claim to have it. Like with this video, Mark Fleming who is chief economist at First A...

Finally, the media is taking notice of the real opportunities available to qualified home buyers who plan to live in their homes for several years. I think they might be reading our blogs here on Active Rain. How long have we been saying that this is a great time to buy a home? And it is also a e...

In the greater Phoenix, AZ metro area there are hundreds, and thousands of homes that are lender owned. These homes are usually being offered below neighborhood comparable properties. I have seen hundreds of homes for sale under $100,000. However these homes are already being snatched up by the s...

Well it does seem to work, Moe Bedard has started a blog for people who are having trouble paying their mortgages and/or people who will be having trouble. The site www.loansafe.org offers free help and advice from others on what to do or what help is available to them. I have barley started look...

Of course Phoenix is included in this list of markets where home prices have declined. In Phoenix home prices have declined around 9.5%. Thats a large amount of depreciation. However Ziprealty mentions the fact that the end of the decline may be near. I agree with them, and I also agree with them...

Wouldn't you know that Phoenix makes the list of the top 10 places to find a bargain. I would certainly have to agree. Not only because I am a REALTOR® in Phoenix, but because price have come down low enough to be considered a bargain by smart consumers and investors.I can already hear my critics...