Phoenix Real Estate

ATTENTION: Canadians Buying Arizona Real Estate

Year-round golf. 15-degree winter days (Celsius, of course). NHL hockey. Restaurants. Sunshine. Friends. Those are just a handful of the reasons that makes Arizona, and particularly Phoenix, an inviting winter destination for many of your Canadian brethren. And with prices still low and the Canadian dollar still strong, opportunity remains to stop squandering money on winter vacation rentals and buy a home in the sun of your own. There … [Read More...]

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Explain This to Me, Public Consumer Type People

Could someone please explain this to me? Zillow, the advertising site that happens to have (wildly inaccurate) real estate listings and other (equally fantastic) real estate information, readily admits on its own site that the Zestimates it provides on properties should not be regarded as accurate valuations. Wait ... Zillow doesn't just admit it such a thing. Zillow provides a chart to show the public just how inaccurate it is in different markets across the country ... So ... here … [Read More...]

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The Search is Working, it’s the Market That’s Broken

Thank you, Jimmy Cannon, for today's post ... Received an e-mail from a long-time client concerned that her home search only was showing homes for sale in Sun City West and not Westbrook Village. I told her the search is fine, it's the market that's broken - 44 total properties for sale, which is just over half of normal for this time of year - and 30 of them are detached homes. That means there are 14 casitas for sale. Total. Ridiculous ... I've been unable to get this one out of my head … [Read More...]

One Quick Inventory Note

Let's give you one quick note on the Phoenix real estate inventory and get you on your way this Mother's Day. Inventory rose back about 8,000 yesterday. While in and of itself that means little, since the 8,026 almost certainly will fall back below the 8,000 mark tomorrow once the weekend's sales are logged into the MLS, it does at least indicate something vaguely resembling inventory stability. We'll see how that shapes up as the month moves on. Okay, I lied ... two more notes … [Read More...]