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Home affordability reached an all-time high in 2010′s last quarter. Unfortunately for home buyers in AZ , it’s been a different story since, however. As mortgage rates cratered, and with home values soft, the Home Opportunity Index reached its highest level in 20 years. The index is published by...

For certain members of the military, and for certain federal employees, there’s just 2 months remaining to get use the federal home buyer tax credit. Eligible persons include members of the uniformed services, members of the Foreign Service, and intelligence community employees who served at lea...

Our educate2earn Instructor and ActiveRain Gurus, Ricky Khamis, will be teaching a 3 hour CE class in San Diego on March 9th. The Value of Listings Being Seen on Social Media will teach you how to combine what you already know about ActiveRain with the powerful tools in ePropertySites to get your...

Mortgage rates could move higher beginning tomorrow morning. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its February jobs report at 8:30 AM ET. Home buyers and rate shoppers in Mesa would be wise to take note. The jobs report is almost always a market-mover. Consider last month. Although net job cr...

Last week, Standard & Poor’s released its Case-Shiller Index for December 2010. The index is a home valuation tracker, meant to meausure the change in home prices from one period to the next. December’s Case-Shiller Index showed major devaluations nationwide. As compared to December 2009, on a y...

After attending this quick 1 hour workshop you will leave motivated and wondering why you have been doing, what you have been doing, the way you have for so long and expecting better results! This class will give the tools and all the FREE resouces to capture the market share in chunks at a time ...

Home resales rose another 2.7 percent last month, according to the National Association of REALTORS® monthly Existing Home Sales report. An “existing home” is a home that’s been previously occupied and is not considered new construction. The number of existing homes sold on a rolling 12-month ba...

Mortgage markets improved slightly last week, rebounding from the worst 1-week loss in recent history. The gains were geopolitical, however; the result of instability in the Middle East region. Economic data was overlooked as investors made a broad-based flight-to-quality. For just the second tim...

The Federal Reserve released its January 25-26, 2011 meeting minutes Wednesday afternoon. Arizona mortgage rates have been in flux since. Fed Minutes are comprehensive recaps of Federal Open Market Committee meetings; a detailed look at the debates and discussions that shape our nation’s monetary...

Annualized Single-Family Housing Starts dropped 1 percent in January to 413,000 units nationwide, it’s lowest reading almost 2 years. A “Housing Start” is defined as a home on which construction has started.  Now, if you had only seen the Housing Starts story in the headlines today, you wouldn’t...