Phoenix Real Estate Blog

  The weather’s still hot, but there are plenty of cool activities for the remaining weeks of September in the Phoenix area.  Check them out!  (And if I left out your favorite activity, let me know.) Thanks as always to About.com for the event details. Family Activities LaLaGlendooza - Old MacDon...

  On October 1st, a program that has allowed hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Americans to buy homes will officially be outlawed.  It’s the FHA/down payment assistance combination that has allowed borrowers to buy homes without any money down.  It’s been a particularly critical program ...

A recent column in the Wall Street Journal’s “House Talk” posed the question: No sale -- a bad agent or a lousy market?  The person who wrote in with the question said that he’d been having trouble selling his 12-year-old home (it’s been on the market almost three months).  His listing contract w...

In my last post, “Whose Fault Is It If Your Home Doesn’t Sell?”, I talked a little bit about the value an agent can (and should) bring to the table -- and how to protect yourself against agents who may fall into market funks (or just fall away altogether). Today, I ran across an interesting debat...

  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 July decreased 12.5%, but that’s after a 33.3% increase in June; July’s 385 homes resold is still 17% above May.  Median prices in Scottsdale d...

So it happened.  On Sunday the government officially took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government sponsored mortgage giants that together own or guarantee nearly half of the nation’s mortgages.  From the New York Times: “The Bush administration seized control of the nation’s two...

Welcome to the sixth 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...

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

I’m back!  It’s been a while since I made my last post, but I’m back and ready to bring all the news that’s fit to blog about to your computer screen. I thought I’d start with a recent headline from the Arizona Republic: “Builders regroup as market searches for a bottom.”  It’s easy to focus only...