If you’re ready to buy your first house, it may be difficult to choose between a starter home or your forever home. Here are some ideas to think about when you’re reviewing your options.
Buying and Insuring a Property
When you buy a home, you also need insurance. Homeowners ...
View MoreA Resource Checklist When Moving to Arizona
Arizona is a great place to live, with plenty of sunlight and a dry, mild climate. If you're planning to call this state your home, you've made a fantastic choice. However, before you can enjoy all Arizona has to offer, you ...
View MoreSupply continues to be the story in the valley (or lack thereof). But it really is a tale of two cities – if the cities were price points – the 
200K range vs. all other price ranges. Single family homes under 200K seem to be the wooly mammoth ...
For those who prefer an article in a Twitter-like format – supply is still constrained, demand appears to be slowing (is this seasonal or an 
actual decrease?) and we are in the midst of a very “normal” market. For those who prefer details, continue on.
The problem with ...
View MoreLow supply has stubbornly remained the major theme of the housing market for the last three years. In fact active counts of
homes for sale were lower in only 4 years (2004, 2005, 2012, & 2013). In 2004 & 2005 “the bubble” was underway with heady demand voraciously ...
The spring buying season is now underway and the current numbers seem to confirm the early signals of 2017.
New listings to market are tracking almost exactly with 2016. While this would seem to be good news for supply starved buyers – after all it is 6% more ...
Seeing historic highs and lows put today's rates in perspective.
As we enter the last quarter of the year, we begin reflecting on how 2016 has compared to 2015. It has been a remarkably similar year to 2015 – with only some minor variations.
The biggest challenge of the 2016 market has been the intensely low inventory in the ...
As we have discussed in previous articles, the 2016 market has fragmented in to 3 very distinct markets – based almost exclusively on
price. Understanding the supply/demand equation in each of these price points will guide savvy sellers and agents as to the strategies best suited to that ...
