October 2008 - Posts
No matter the circumstances, there’s a lot of stress a homeowner goes through in a foreclosure or a short sale. The loss of the home itself and any equity can add a lot of anguish to a situation that may be beyond the control of the homeowner from
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Existing home sales in the Valley jumped a staggering 70 percent last month compared with September 2007, overshadowing a 5.5 percent increase in national home resales for the same period. Home resales in Maricopa and Pinal counties rose to 5,749 units
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Anyone looking for advice on how to close a deal in a tough market might get some inspiration from William Bronchick and Ray Cooper, authors of How To Sell A House Fast In A Slow Real Estate Market (2008: John A. Wiley & Sons). Here are some of their
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PARADISE VALLEY In the Phoenix suburbs, a five-bedroom home with a large yard and swimming pool attracted a handful of prospective buyers on a recent weekend afternoon, lured by a reduced price tag and desert mountain views. As he wandered out to the
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The Phoenix area is hosting a wave of real estate investors like we haven't seen since 2005. Unlike the novices who came here during the boom, these are experienced landlords. They're here now because lender-owned homes are selling for bargain-basement
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The homeownership tax credit that the federal government created earlier this year is a hard-won tool at your disposal to encourage your customers to jump off the fence and get into the home buying market. When you combine the tax credit with today’s
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Good news in market gone bad Foreclosures and pre-foreclosures were up across metropolitan Phoenix in September. It's the expected bad news in the midst of the financial- and housing-market meltdowns. But home sales were up across the Valley last
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IS MY MONEY SAFE -- ?????? When IndyMac bank failed this summer, the lines of nervous account holders trying to withdraw their money made headlines everywhere. But that was an anomaly. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) has taken over ten other
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