Program Aims to Help Low to Moderate Borrowers FHA loans have long been an important and fundamental part of providing American home buying consumers with affordable mortgages using down payments as low as 3.5%. Other benefits with the FHA loan include more…
Meanwhile, Rents Continue to Rise We’ve told you recently, on more than a few occasions, that rents are rising across the valley. What may be frightening for those still renting, is that this trend does not seem to be going away. This…
The Phoenix Metro rental market appears to still be quite hot. Supply of listings available on ARMLS (our local multiple listing service) continue to drop as 2620 new rental listings were added as of the past four weeks, which was 15% fewer…
Seven Year Run of Moderation Among Nations Best It’s sometimes hard to describe where our market is trending at, and perhaps it’s not trending anywhere. Depending on the market that we Realtors find ourselves working in however, it can seem very hot,…
Well, Arizona may not have the best football team as we saw with the Cardinals ugly NFC Championship loss to Carolina yesterday! But, Arizona does have what is probably the finest number crunching real estate geek mathematician in the country, in Michael…
View Randy Johnson’s Home for Sale and the Valley’s Most Expensive Listing Question: “What is the most expensive house that has ever sold in the Greater Phoenix area?” Michael Orr of ASU/Cromford Report, responds: “This is harder to answer than it sounds….
To set the record straight, the oft quoted Apollo 13 statement from James Lovell, played by Tom Hanks was actually, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” Astronaut John Swigert Jr. said it first, then it was repeated by Lovell. No extra charge…
An Upbeat Real Estate Start to 2016 Last week we discussed the benefits of owning rental real estate, especially in the Phoenix Metro area where our market has slowly and steadily been improving over the past few years. We recommended that folks…