Phoenix Real Estate Blog

Welcome to the fourth monthly 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. Ch...

Let’s see what’s gone on in the Scottsdale and Phoenix area real estate markets this past month: Scottsdale The number of homes resold in Scottsdale in May increased dramatically – up 25.76% to 415 homes. The increase in sales volume in Greater Phoenix on whole was just under 3%. The median sales...

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 May. Did you miss my last Realty Times news video? You can check it out here: http://realtytimes.com/REUv/BobStahl Enjoy! RT: What specif...

We’ve been doing it here for a while.  Since Phoenix is one of the nation’s foreclosure hotspots (primarily due to the speculator-driven over-inflation of home prices and subsequent overbuilding – for more, check out last year’s blog “What’s behind the foreclosure crisis”), we’ve been helping fir...

  This summer get out there and be entertained with all the activities that the Valley of the Sun has to offer, including festivals, concerts, sporting events, cultural attractions, museums, and much more.  Below you’ll find a list of great activities in the Phoenix area, taken in part from About...

There was a very interesting blog on Zillow yesterday that talked about how much money the average family has left over every month after paying the mortgage, in different cities around the country. Check out Zillow’s chart: Source: Zillow.com Source: Zillow.comThe relatively large amount of mone...

About a quarter of all homebuyers choose to buy a new home rather than a resale. Many think that the sales people at the builder’s model home office will work for them just like a real estate agent would. Wrong. “Everyone working on the site is working for the builder. . .There's not one single p...

  Sellers are going to great lengths these days to get an edge in the market.  They’re now competing with homeowners doing short sales and banks selling foreclosed properties.  So what’s a seller to do? For a complete list of tips on how to sell in a slower market, check out this informative arti...

An article today in the “Your Money” section of the New York Times, “Letters from the Home front: A Real Estate Deal Seen from 2 Sides,” by Ron Lieber, offered something I’d honestly never heard of before: a letter from a prospective buyer to the home’s seller explaining why the seller should acc...

  An article Sunday at MyrtleBeachOnline.com talked about a new trend in real estate: house swapping.  Well, maybe not too new, but growing, according to the article.  On one popular house-trading site, DomuSwap.com, there are currently 389 listings in Arizona.  Not surprisingly, the states most ...