Market Conditions

Aug. 17, 2023

Market Update August 2023

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗺𝗮

 

It can be difficult to write about a slow moving train such as our Greater Phoenix housing market.  The market is remarkably quiet right now making poor fodder for attention grabbing headlines.  Both buyers and sellers seem content to sit on the ...

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July 20, 2023

Market Snapshot July 2023

The Valley Real Estate Market – It’s a Dry Heat

 

The market in the last few weeks is in the midst of a slight cooling trend (a phrase that sounds like an oxymoron given the record heat the valley is enduring). This is evidenced by the slowly increasing inventory ...

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June 21, 2023

Market Snapshot June 2023

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗻𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁

 

𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆: Supply has been slowly dwindling all year as sellers have elected to stay put given their current low interest rate mortgages.  We have already dropped below last year in supply. As of today, the current supply of properties for sale is 11,609.  For perspective ...

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June 2, 2023

Market Update June 2023

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆'𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝘂𝗽𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 Getting Bare

 

 Most are now aware that the low supply of housing inventory is currently the driving force in the valley’s real estate marketplace.  According to the Cromford Index, supply is down a whopping 42% from the ...

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May 19, 2023

May Market Snapshot 2023

𝗜𝘀 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 "𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗱"?

 

The cupboard full of active listings for sale is starting to dwindle and trending towards bare.  According to the Cromford Index, supply is down a whopping 42% from the peak of October ...

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April 25, 2023

April 2023 Market Snapshot

 

𝗦𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁

 

“I'm skeptical that the world is round

What keeps it up and what keeps me down?”

 

~Kim Carnes, from the song “Skeptical Shuffle”~

 

 

The average person could be forgiven for ...

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Posted in Market Conditions
March 30, 2023

The Headlines vs Reality

The media continues to push the narrative that interest rates are killing the spring home buying season and that danger lurks everywhere. News of failed banks SVB and Credit Suisse creates fear that the banking crisis of 2007 is repeating.  YouTube “experts” claim that foreclosures are on the rise.  Yet ...

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March 16, 2023

Market Update March 2023

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘃𝘀𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆

 

The media continues to push the narrative that interest rates are killing the spring home buying season. Yet the facts do not support this theory in the greater Phoenix area.  While interest rates may be keeping some buyers out of the market ...

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Feb. 21, 2023

Market Snapshot February 2023

Seller's Market - but for how long?

 

The current market has shifted to the seller’s favor once again.  But this is not your mama’s market (i.e. the 2022 unbeatable spring market). Last spring we were in an overheated seller’s market – fueled by demand, low supply and low ...

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Jan. 19, 2023

Market Snapshot January 2023

Why a Balanced Market feels so Unbalanced

 

 Most buyers and sellers would be surprised to hear that the greater Phoenix real estate market is “a balanced market” at the moment.  But it’s true.  Why doesn’t it feel that way?  We think it feels unbalanced primarily ...

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