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I read this blog from http://goshinkarate.blogspot.com/2010/03/are-you-losing-your-marbles.html and I thought I would shar it here..... 3900 MARBLES or How Many Saturdays Do you Have Left?? The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps
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As normal, January was a relatively slow month for sales with a total of 5,788 reported through ARMLS for all areas and types. This compares with 7,611 for December and 4,704 for January 2009. Nevertheless this is the second highest sales count ever for
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Land Advisors' debut real-estate forecast event last week drew a crowd that packed an Arizona Biltmore resort ballroom. Here are some key data and predictions from the event, "Real Estate: Evolution of an Industry." But the building market
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7 Things All Buyers Ought to Know "Ignorance is bliss" was never said about real estate purchases for 7 good reasons: 1. " Knowledge is bliss" may not make it as a buyer's slogan either, because you don't have to know it all—just
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First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Extended Into 2010! Plus...A New Tax Credit for Certain Existing Home Owners! It's official. President Obama has signed a bill that extends the tax credit for first-time homebuyers (FTHBs) into the first half of 2010.
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Subprime loans were problem, but overall, broader economic woes contributed to pain Home-foreclosure activity has spilled across every geographic and socioeconomic border this year, proving that no community was too cautious, clever or well-funded to
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A Historic Time to Buy Young people just starting to invest and buying their first homes are potentially the winners in this recession. First-time homebuyers, most between the ages of 25 and 45, accounted for about 45 percent of home sales from January
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Signs advertise available retail spaces in the Chandler Mercado shopping center at the northwest corner of Arizona Avenue and Warner Road in Chandler. Feb. 10, 2009. No improvement seen for retail real estate Store closings will continue to outpace openings
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Home prices in Arizona fell less than forecast Sept. 29 -- Home values in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas declined less than forecast in the year ended in July, a sign the housing slump that led to the worst recession in seven decades is abating. The S&P/Case-Shiller
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Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 5.04 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week ending September 24, 2009, unchanged from last week
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Washington Report: Tax Credit Changes The first major change to the $8,000 home buyers tax credit began moving through Congress last week, giving hope to real estate and building groups pushing for extension of the entire program before it expires Nov.
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Valley home prices holding steady 3-month trend indicates 27-month freefall may have come to an end, ASU expert says After a record-breaking 27 months of decline in the Valley's median home price, some of the most influential local real-estate analysts
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Purchases of new homes in the U.S. climbed 11 percent in June, the biggest gain in eight years, adding to evidence the slump that began in 2005 is stabilizing. Sales increased to a 384,000 pace, higher than any forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg
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Two new reports show slow improvement is being made in the East Valley's new and existing home markets. Home sales increase, median price down Housing market may be changing course Last month, new-home construction permits reached 1,018 across the
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In June 2009, 11,820 resale homes recorded as being sold, while there were 9,980 recorded sales in May and 7,840 sales for a year ago. Foreclosure activity in June 2009 represented 34 percent (4,060 transactions), while there were 7,760 traditional market
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