Arizona Real Estate

              Iowa, Oklahoma return to Phoenix area for 2011 Insight BowlHawkeyes beat Missouri 27-24 in last year's Insight Bowl in Tempe SCOTTSDALE -- The Insight Bowl passed on taking Penn State, instead going with two teams that had been to the desert recently. Given ...

                     Phoenix foreclosures at lowest percentage of market since spring '09Foreclosures, as a percentage of the Phoenix metro housing market, reached their lowest level since April 2009, according to a report from the W. ...

                Arizona home buyers face complicated hunt Those fortunate enough to be eligible buyers during the first eight months of 2010 often faced a long, frustrating house hunt that left them feeling less like the hunters and more like the prey. The ...

  Wedding Registries for Home Downpayments? --> Forget the toasters and champagne flutes: More engaged couples are doing a different type of wedding registry that allows them to collect cash for a down payment on a home, according to a recent article in The Washington Times. Dana Ostomel, founder of Deposit a Gift in New York City, ...

            Obama Offers Mortgage Relief On Western Trip  Obama To Promote New Steps To Help Housing Woes - According to an administration official, Obama's housing initiative will help homeowners with little or no equity in their homes refinance by cutting the cost of ...

Arizona real-estate market a confusing environment Recent reports say foreclosures are declining in metro Phoenix and large numbers of homes are selling. But many homeowners feel trapped in houses they can't sell. Some real-estate agents can't find enough new listings to keep up with demand from ...

   Fewer Homes For Sale, Inventories Fall Sharply Housing inventory decreasing The Investors are coming the Investors are coming.... Well they have been here since February 2011. Today the Arizona MLS or the Phoenix MLS inventory dropped below 20,000 active listing down from are all time high of around 60,000 ...

Phoenix Housing Market Shows Signs of Life Phoenix doesn’t usually churn out upbeat housing news. So it’s worth noting reports for the market that look, well, at least not bad. In June, Phoenix had the strongest resale activity in six years, helping to lift total sales from the year-ago month when federal tax credits ...

Phoenix area gains 7,200 jobs over past year The Phoenix area added 7,200 jobs during the past year, good for No. 26 in the nation among 372 metro areas. A total of 266 metropolitan areas gained employment between January 2010 and January 2011, according to new figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ninety-three metros ...

  Metro Phoenix new-home market is on mend, experts say Metro Phoenix's homebuilding market is on the second step of a five-phase recovery process, according to one of the nation's top housing analysts. During a Wednesday Urban Land Institute panel discussion on the future of homebuilding, California-based real-estate ...