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Welcome to Critter Country
2008-04-12 09:06:00 And we’re not referring to the former home of the greatly-missed Bear Country Jamboree at Disneyland. (Tangent warning: Pooh Corner sucks. Bring back Big Al. End of tangent.) No, today we’re talking about the one critter that seems to be dreaded more than any other even though treatment and elimination is relatively straight-forward. We give you ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - April 11
2008-04-11 17:10:00 One-handed fins to the left? One-handed fins to the right? Welcome to the time machine! Mr. Buffett was at the Margaritaville Cafe at the Westgate City Center here in Glendale on Wednesday. Do you think I got a VIP pass? No. Did my daughter, who has drawn about a dozen pictures of Buffett songs get a ... More About: Music , April , Miscellany , Friday , Afternoon
Pardon the Interruption
2008-04-11 03:37:00 We’ll keep this one short. Well, short for me. This week I was scheduled to have two escrows close. There were some narrow scrapes on the second, but everything was completed today after our second final walkthrough. I also was scheduled to teach a blogging client how to use their shiny new blog, which I’ll tell ... More About: Miscellany , Pardon
Curing Contractual Issues in Phoenix Real Estate
2008-04-09 19:12:00 Yesterday one of my sellers conducted the “final” walkthrough on the home they are purchasing in Ventana Lakes. Or at least, that was the plan. Once we got to the home we discovered both the water and gas had been turned off, making it rather difficult to determine if the leak from the hose bib ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Phoenix , Issues , Real
Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update - April 8
2008-04-09 03:58:00 First off, a little bit of housekeeping. The week-over-week change you’ll see if you click on any of the markers actually is the change from two weeks ago. Last week I posted the Maricopa County-wide numbers, vowed to find the time to run the numbers for all of the individual cities and simply never got a ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Phoenix , April , Inventory
A Consumer?s Bad Experience Damns the Industry
2008-04-08 22:35:00 Twenty-one years ago I was shopping for my first car. I ended up purchasing a 1980 Monte Carl from Thorobred Chevrolet in Chandler. I can’t begin to explain my surprise when I learned the car didn’t have a required catalytic converter. Without the catalytic converter there was no way for the car to pass emissions testing ... More About: Industry , Consumer , Experience , The Industry
Very Quick Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update
2008-04-08 18:52:00 Very quickly, as I have folks heading to Ventana Lakes for a final walkthrough and documents signing … Inventory ’s roughly flat with 39,403 single family detached homes for sale in the Phoenix real estate market. Sales were 3,107 for an absorption rate of 12.7 months. REO and bank owned homes have a 5.5-month absorption rate - 712 ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Update
Sunday Afternoon at Venu at Greyhawk
2008-04-07 09:42:00 Despite prior protestations about buyers’ immediate inclination to look at homes in Scottsdale, one of my buyers and I toured a half-dozen condos in Venu at Grayhawk, a multi-level condo complex to the east of Desert ridge. Of the six condos we viewed, one truly stood out - granite counters, travertine floors, views - not of ... More About: Sunday , Afternoon
Another Perspective on Renting
2008-04-07 01:55:00 … this one courtesy of Bill Lublin over at Agent Genius. Bill is a real estate agent in the Philadelphia area: After all, everyone who has a monthly housing expense is paying someone?s mortgage, so it may as well be their own. I’m certain the eternal renters will argue that it’s okay to pay someone else’s mortgage ... More About: Renting , Perspective
Premium Properties Carry Pricing Premiums
2008-04-06 09:30:00 While everyone’s needs are somewhat different, there’s a definite pattern in the type of real estate property most Canadian buyers are trying to find here in the Phoenix area: A home in a gated community. A property with a view of some type - a golf course or water or the mountains and quite possibly on ... More About: Premium , Properties , Carry
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - April 4
2008-04-05 00:11:00 A little bit of fun on a late Friday afternoon under 79-degree skies … have a great night! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Copyright © 2008 Phoenix Real Estate | Phoenix Homes for Sale | Dalton's Arizona Homes Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are ... More About: Music , April , Miscellany , Afternoon
Experience Pays on Phoenix Short Sales and Foreclosures
2008-04-04 18:52:00 This started as one question from Trulia Voices but a second from this morning dovetails quite nicely into the discussion: “If I was behind on payments I was told to contact the Arizona Short Sale office. I want to know if I should contact Arizona Short Sale office or some realtor who just got their license.” You ... More About: Phoenix , Foreclosures , Sales , Experience , Pays
Remember That Real Estate Auction in March?
2008-04-03 23:32:00 This nugget comes from a reliable source and can be filed under “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.” Remember that big real estate auction here in the Phoenix area last month? Remember all the severe discounts off list price and market value to be had as banks cleared out a couple ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Auction , Real , March
Zillow Launches Mortgage Marketplace
2008-04-03 18:46:00 … and this could be either good or bad for someone looking to purchase here in the Phoenix real estate market. Remember those Lending Tree ads that tell you “when banks compete, you win?” Zillow ’s Mortgage Marketplace is sort of like that in that you’ll have a bunch of lenders providing you with competitive (and theoretically) ...
When Everyone Talks About You, You Can?t be Underrated
2008-04-03 01:19:00 Yesterday several real estate bloggers from the Phoenix are met for lunch at Rock Bottom at Desert Ridge, an open-air retail center in north Phoenix on the border of Scottsdale. Given my recent writings about Scottsdale, I didn’t think it would be prudent for me to cross the border. Still, the Scottsdale cabal was waiting for ... More About: Underrated
New Additions Coming for Canadian Buyers
2008-04-02 20:23:00 Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with some folks with HIFX, one of the largest currency exchange firms around. They’ve got some interesting tools that should help Canadian buyers looking for real estate down here in the states, particularly in the Phoenix real estate market, and I’ll be adding those over the ... More About: Buyers
Quick Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update
2008-04-01 18:12:00 Nothing here to do with April Fool’s Day, my dear readers. Couldn’t come up with anything sufficiently inspired that also wouldn’t run afoul of NAR’s Code of Ethics. I’ll have the usual map up later on today after a few appointments but here are the highlights from the Phoenix real estate market: Inventory fell by just over ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Update
Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut
2008-04-01 14:06:00 First, I started predicting the offers “the banker” would be making on Deal or No Deal (which my wife forced me to watch) and came within a couple thousand one way or the other 9 out of 10 times. Second, I started predicting the scores on Dancing With the Stars (which my wife forced me to ... More About: Blind , Squirrel
That Magic 8 Ball?s Getting Cloudy
2008-04-01 09:03:00 In what only can be described as the perfect wedding, our buyer who keeps looking for free pricing advice for Buckeye’s Verrado subdivision from panting agents on Trulia Voices who can’t seem to remember she has an agent received a response from the “wait, rent” respondent with the Magic 8 ball. We’ll skip the usual questions ... More About: Cloudy , Ball
Want to Sell Your Listing? Answer the Phone
2008-04-01 01:24:00 If you were a real estate agent in a down market, such as the one here in Phoenix, and there’s an agent calling to say he wants to write an offer for a buyer but just wants to make sure there’s nothing else happening on the home … wouldn’t that be a call you ought ... More About: Phone , Answer , Listing , Sell
Arizona Road Trip to Find the Woods
2008-03-31 18:18:00 We left the Phoenix area yesterday around noon in search of woods - more specifically, the woods surrounding the summer camp to which we may be sending our son in July. One of the oft-unheralded features of Phoenix and Arizona is the incredible change in topography and vegetation that takes place in a relatively short ... More About: Find , Miscellany , Trip , Road Trip
Phoenix Area Bedroom Communities
2008-03-30 20:35:00 I’ve been mulling a question I received last night from one of my Canadian buyers. And Murray, if you read this first, know I’m working on the answer as I go. The question basically dealt with my thoughts on Gilbert or Queen Creek versus Glendale or Peoria. The basis was Glendale and Peoria are more of ... More About: Phoenix , Bedroom , Area , Communities
Now That You Found the Termite Tube ?
2008-03-29 16:50:00 Termites happen here in Valley. Some areas are more prone to the little buggers than others, but virtually any home here in the Phoenix real estate market is going to be a candidate for a termite condo at some stage. I have folks buying a home in Ventana Lakes, right on the water on the Peoria ... More About: Tube
Friday Afternoon Theme Music: March 28
2008-03-28 22:55:00 I want me some more Bob Marley … bound to improve any mood. Have a great weekend! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Copyright © 2008 Phoenix Real Estate and Homes for Sale - Dalton's Arizona Homes Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this ... More About: Music , Miscellany , Friday , Afternoon , Theme
Do Sports Help the Phoenix Real Estate Market?
2008-03-27 17:54:00 Glendale has been a sporting mecca over the past 14 months, what with the Super Bowl, the 2007 BCS Championship Game and two Fiesta Bowls being played here. Next year the Los Angeles Dodgers arrive for spring training. And the fact the Dodgers already come here for nine games a year didn’t stop some folks for ... More About: Sports , Estate , Real Estate , Phoenix , Real Estate Market
The Misguided Good Samaritans in Real Estate
2008-03-27 05:28:00 Two observations for the price of one. The first involves a family member of one of my prospective buyers who came in from Los Angeles to look at a home my buyer’s been mulling over. “Write them an offer, you know, 20 or 25 percent below and see what happens. “Right,” she adds, looking at me. “This isn’t ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real , Good , Samaritans
Real Estate Photography Overkill
2008-03-26 12:11:00 I’m thinking of a number between six and infinity. If you can’t get to six, you’re eliminated from the competition from the get-go. If you’re leaning closer to the infinity mark, you also probably have a date with the exit. How many photos are too few on your average real estate listing (let’s throw out 3 ... More About: Photography , Estate , Real Estate , Real , Overkill
More Phoenix Real Estate Brokerage Changes
2008-03-25 22:12:00 This one’s courtesy of John Wake (with a hat tip to Jay Thompson): HomeSmart Real Estate , with 1,700 agents acquired Dan Schwartz Realty with 1,600 agents last week giving HomeSmart Real Estate 3,300 agents and making it by far the largest real estate brokerage in Arizona, the largest in the Southwest, and one of the largest ... More About: Phoenix , Brokerage
Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update: March 25
2008-03-25 17:22:00 Inventory of single-family detached homes in the Phoenix real estate market crept above the 40,000 mark for the first time since late November while sales moved slightly higher over the preceding 30 days. As of this morning there are 40,068 single-family detached homes for sale in Maricopa County. There were 2,882 closed sales the past 30 ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Inventory , Update
Century 21 Camelview Shuts its Doors
More articles from this author:2008-03-24 23:21:00 As I was discussing the demise of Century 21 Arizona Foothills’ Arrowhead office with some friends this morning, I learned that Century 21 Camelview had shut its doors over the past couple of weeks. Several agents have moved to Foothills, including one who signed on at the soon-to-be-defunct Arrowhead office. Camelview was a relatively small office … ... More About: Doors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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