Posts Tagged ‘ Area Home Sales ’

Home Prices Rising in the Greater Phoenix Area

05/14/2012
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The graph above shows what has happened to the median price of single family detached homes sold in the Phoenix area over the past two years. The median price has gone from a low of $115,500 in July of 2011 to a high of $147,000 in April, 2012.

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Should You Buy a Home in 2012?

05/11/2012
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Below is a link to an article by CCN-Money about purchasing a home in 2012.  It basically discusses the national real estate market but it also has a few words about Phoenix.   Economists are expecting home prices to start rising by a small amount nationally this year.  In Phoenix this has already started happening...

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Home Prices Going Up In Phoenix Area

04/02/2012
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As we have been reporting, the inventory of homes in a lot of the Phoenix metro area is about half what it was last year.   The inventory of  foreclosure homes for sale is about a quarter of what it was a year ago.  This has caused competition among buyers and home prices are starting...

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Housing Market Moving Forward

01/20/2012
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Mike Orr was quoted in the Arizona Republic as saying that he believes the housing market in the Phoenix area hit bottom in September of 2011.  Mike Orr is the Director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice for Arizona Statue University.    We are seeing multiple offer situations for many properties priced...

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Phoenix-area Housing Market Improving

01/09/2012
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Below is a link to a recent article in the Arizona Republic.  We agree that the housing market has changed.    There are about half as many homes for sale currently as there were a year ago.  I don’t agree with Brett Barry’s statement that he thinks there are still a lot of foreclosures to...

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Phoenix area housing market gaining ground, new data show

07/08/2011
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Phoenix Housing Market Is Changing

06/09/2011
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I was talking with another real estate agent yesterday and he told me he had six offers on a property he had listed.  Since April, most of the time when we submit an offer for a buyer, the listing agent tells us there are multiple offers for the property and asks for our buyer’s...

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Positive Signs for Phoenix Housing Market

05/09/2011
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There have been a number of positive signs recently for the Phoenix housing market. Sales were strong in both March and April.    In March there were 9941 closed sales and in April 9309 which was an increase of  0.8% over last year.  This is significant because last years April numbers were strong due to...

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Multiple Offers for Properties

04/18/2011
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We are starting to see multiple offers being made on properties in the Phoenix area.  This seems to be particularly true for properties priced under $100,000.    There are a lot of people purchasing second homes and a lot of investors buying properties.  Prices are low enough that buyers are coming back into the market. ...

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Phoenix Area Home Prices Starting to Increase

05/27/2010
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I just read an article from the Phoenix Business Journal regarding homes prices.    Everyone is always wondering when the real estate prices will have hit bottom.  That is something we can’t tell until prices have started to increase and we are past the bottom.  We have seen greater competition by buyers in the market place...

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