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Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Fun Activities in the Phoenix Area in July

July 1st, 2009 2:59 pm
July may be one of Phoenix’s hottest months, but there’s no shortage of cool (figuratively and literally) activities. Read on. . .

Did You Know: FSBO and Agent-Assisted Sales Price

Posted at NAR Research by NAR Research
June 30th, 2009 10:52 am
Tagged with: agent, assisted, fsbo, price, sales
This is one in a series of commentaries by the Research staff of the National Association of REALTORS®.

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Fun Activities in the Phoenix Area for the 4th of July

June 29th, 2009 10:11 pm
How are you going to celebrate the Fourth here in Phoenix? You’ll find a variety of ideas below.

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Curb Appeal Is So 2008. Today It’s All about the Web Appeal

June 26th, 2009 11:52 am
I’ve blogged before about how important the Internet is as a tool for home sellers. Why? Simply put, because a huge percentage of buyers look to the Internet first when they’re starting their home search.

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: 6 Steps to Ensure a Fair Appraisal

June 22nd, 2009 12:12 pm
Two years ago, most of the rules related to real estate were lax. Or, at least, regulators looked the other way. Today, the pendulum has swung completely to the other side – now everything from the mortgage to the appraisal is scrutinized carefully.

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: After the Fall – A Must-read for Real Estate Investors

June 18th, 2009 1:25 pm
The online magazine Knowledge@W. P. Carey, produced out of ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business, recently reviewed Steve Bergsman’s “After the Fall: Opportunities and Strategies for Real Estate Investing in the Coming Decade.” I haven’t read th

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Want to Sell Your House? Hire an Agent to Market, Market, Market

June 11th, 2009 12:29 pm
An article yesterday in the Arizona Republic talked about a number of steps home sellers can take to get their home sold. One was: “Ask your listing agent to burn up the phone lines with calls about your home. During the heady seller's market a few ye

Mortgage Rate Increase

June 5th, 2009 12:28 pm
This entry makes the argument for buying real estate in this market. Low interest rates, depressed real estate mortgage rates, and the potential for inflation are all excellant reasons for acquiring an equity position in a piece of property today.

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Lose Your Job? I’ll Pay Your Mortgage!

June 4th, 2009 1:05 pm
I read an article online the other day (it’s from the Columbus Dispatch) about a real estate agency in Ohio that will pay clients’ mortgages if they get laid off during the first year of buying their new home. The deal, of course, is to take some o

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Hot Topics

June 3rd, 2009 12:09 pm
Every week -- or a couple of times a week -- the REALTOR.com® Blogging Team asks for submissions on certain topics as a way to feature interesting content on the Let's Talk blog on Realtor.com. This week, they asked: “What do you enjoy blogging about

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Fun Activities in the Phoenix Area in June

June 1st, 2009 12:34 pm
Even as the mercury rises -- it’s hot, hot, hot -- there are a ton of cool things to do in the Phoenix area this June. You’ll find events and activities to pique every interest, every age -- from family activities to romantic couple activities to thi

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Finding the Right School for Your Kids

May 29th, 2009 1:10 pm
I recently sold a home in McDowell Mountain Ranch to a family with two school-aged kids -- one going into first grade and the other in fourth grade. Understandably, one of the parents’ primary criteria for their new home was the availability of good sc

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Obama Expands Making Home Affordable

May 28th, 2009 12:23 pm
I wrote a post earlier this year about the two-pronged mortgage relief plan created by the Obama administration. One part of the plan is designed to help as many as five million homeowners who would like to refinance their mortgage. The other part is de

Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Are We at the Bottom? What Will Recovery Look Like?

May 22nd, 2009 12:41 pm
Last Wednesday on KJZZ, local real estate experts talked about whether the Phoenix-area real estate market is nearing, or at, the bottom. One sign that we’re at the bottom -- or at least that the downward trend is losing momentum -- is the rising sales

How Real town made me a hero in my town

May 21st, 2009 7:44 am
Tagged with: 1st, advance, agent, boise, buyers, credit, idaho, tax, time
1st Time Home Buyers Tax Credit advance loans are now available in at least two states Idaho & Missouri. Your state could be next - do what this agent did and you may go from Zero to Hero!
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