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October 2008
Oct. 30, 2008
Welcome to the eighth edition of the MyPhoenixMLS area-specific market conditions update. Today, I’ll describe what’s gone on in the Scottsdale, Paradise Valley and Phoenix area real estate markets this past month.
Oct. 30, 2008
The trend began in California but quickly spread to other states where the housing boom was taking off -- Nevada, Florida, and our own Grand Canyon State: rows upon rows of new tract homes -- large homes, often with expensive amenities but cut from simila
Oct. 28, 2008
Welcome to the eighth 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
Oct. 28, 2008
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 September.
Did you miss my last Realty Times news video? You can check it out here: ht
Oct. 22, 2008
In August I wrote a post about real estate-related propositions that would show up on the November ballot. As November 4 is fast approaching, I thought I’d take a more in-depth look at one of those propositions, which has caused quite a stir around tow
Oct. 16, 2008
Last month, the clock in New York City that tracks the national debt ran out of room. “Last month, as the national debt exceeded $10 trillion for the first time, the clock ran out of digits to record the number.”
Oct. 14, 2008
I’ve been getting regular e-mails from a friend of mine who used to be a financial adviser and still avidly follows the stock market. He’s been talking for a while about the stock market bottom -- it’s been elusive. A look at his notes over the
Oct. 10, 2008
In yesterday’s post I mused at the end about the effects of the $700 billion “bailout” plan. It’s hard to believe it was just last week that was passed -- it seems like eons ago. Since then, central banks around the world cut interest rates, the
Oct. 9, 2008
Last Friday President Bush signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 -- more infamously known as the $700 billion bailout. It’s the most expensive government intervention in U.S. history. Among the provisions in the 450-page bill
Oct. 7, 2008
So I got a little bit behind schedule last month with the real estate market update -- if it seems like it hasn’t been a month since I posted the last update; it hasn’t. But since the numbers are already out for August, I thought I’d go ahead and s
Oct. 6, 2008
In my last post, I blogged about what the !@#$ has happened to our financial and economic systems. Today, we’ll explore why.
Oct. 4, 2008
Okay, so the $700 billion “bailout” plan is passed -- and President Bush will surely sign it. Maybe now is a good time to reflect on what the !@#$ just happened.
Oct. 3, 2008
We simply can’t separate the fate of Main Street -- to use a fast-tiring cliché -- from the fate of Wall Street.
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