Every issue since 2013. Mike writes most of them, Jonathan writes the rest, and nothing has been taken down because it aged badly.
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…
The Year Nothing Worked: Stocks, Bonds, Cash Go Nowhere ***It’s the worst year for asset allocation funds since 1937 and; ***A 2.2% gain in the S&P 500 is the best anyone can do (Bloomberg News 12-28-2015) My Monday morning work day started…
It’s impossible to predict Real Estate performance with 100% accuracy. Often the statisticians and the Real Estate community at large get it wrong. So whenever we try to predict values or market heat, we always try to do it with more than…
We’ve all seen how the American military has been utilizing robotic drones to help fight wars, especially in the Middle East. It has eliminated many Al Qaeda and Isis terrorist enemies without having to jeopardize allied “boots on the ground” which is…
Solid and Balanced Market Continues The good news is that the Phoenix Metro real estate market will surpass the last two years in many important categories including the number of sales, average and median sales prices, numbers of homes under contract and…
The Contingency Sale – A Buyer Opportunity Also; Pending Listings Down 42% Since 2011 In two previous installments about the Contingency Sale, we concentrated on how and why sellers should now be considering offers on their homes with a buyer contingency that…
The “total” supply of homes for sale in the Phoenix Metro region is well down from last year, which on the surface would seem to be not great news for buyers and good news for sellers. All of that decline, however is…