March 2012  Market Update   Opportunities in the housing market continue to grow for buyers and sellers. Home affordability, driven mostly by record low interest rates, is among the lowest it has ever been. According to the National Association of Realtors, and based on national averages, the payments on a home today represent 12.8% [...]

Entryway Impressions Homeowners who have decided to stay put as well as sellers looking for ways to impress should pay close attention to the look and feel of their entryways.   We all know the power first impressions has over our society. We make snap-judgements of books, homes, and people in the first few moments [...]

Because All Realtors Are Not The Same!                                  In all candor, who you are in business with matters. In today’s real estate market it really matters! If you needed major surgery on your knee you would hire the best surgeon right? Of course you would. You wouldn’t hire someone from a billboard or bus stop sign [...]

Mortgage Interest Deduction This term has been splashed across the front pages of many media outlets. What is it and what does it mean for today’s homeowners?   The “mortgage interest deduction”, or MID, is a way for homeowners to recoup some of the cost associated with interest paid on mortgage loans for qualifying houses [...]

Personal, Financial Investment Returns Make Short-term Rentals Ever More Popular   The short-term rental market – largely seconds homes and vacation rentals  – is alive and well, thanks largely to online portals thrusting this unique form of accommodations into the limelight.   The risks associated with short term rental investments can include governmental oversight, community scrutiny and the costs [...]

Real Estate Outlook: Job Growth and Builder Confidence   The latest monthly report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the unemployment rate is still on its way down. This is good news for job seekers and home sellers alike.   The current unemployment rate is now at 8.3 percent. Last year the [...]

Bank Mortgage Refinance Rates At Risk of Increasing Now that headlines out of Europe have calmed down, the focus has been on the economy here in the U.S. Although there are some mixed signals coming out of data reports, investor confidence is evident in the direction that markets are moving. Investors are turning to risky [...]

It’s only one report. But it could be that the worst of Arizona’s housing market is now behind us. New figures Thursday from the Federal Housing Finance Agency show the price of homes in Arizona actually rose more than 4 percent in the last quarter of 2011. By contrast, the national figure was still one-tenth [...]

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