"Valley of the Sun Real Estate"

Here is a video from Inman TV. It is about the AAR (Arizona Association of REALTORS®) and their decision to begin using SURECLOSE. SURECLOSE is a paperless Transaction Management system that allows REALTORS® in Arizona and their clients across the globe to follow the progress of their transaction...

Today I watched a video interview of Barry Ritholtz, CEO and Director of Equity Research from Fusion IQ give his take on the market. To him the market has more years left of recovery. He must have looked into his crystal ball and read the future. I have no reason to believe it will take years.We ...

Owner occupied fraud is said to make up 20% of mortgage fraud as a whole. I think thats an amazing percentage. Investors may may be primarily to blame for this 20%. Also to blame can be those who own a vacation property or a second home may want to have the advantages of claiming the home as thei...

Beware of what you write in your blogs. A blogger is being sued over what he has posted. I suggest that you be careful that your posts contain facts and that you disclose where found the facts. I would not like to be held liable for anything I post on AR.When we offer opinions we should make it c...

In an article from REALTOR Magazine titled "Redfin CEO Says He's Being Picked On", Glenn Kelman states that their comany's signs are being destroyed, and stolen. Does he think his company is unique in that only his company's signs are being tampered with?Along with many other colleagues I can tel...

If you  are a skeptic you will find this video from Inman TV interesting. It is an interview with Michael Shermer who publishes Skeptic Magazine. He has written a book called "Mind of the Market", where he gives his take/view on the industry. I thought that he was going to have a pessimistic view...

No the two are not the same thing. Although they may have a symbiotic relationship they are very different. Now I will not go into detail, but I will give you my take on the differences.Debts you have and owe are basically credit that is extended to you. Having credit is usually a good thing. If ...

I read an Inman article from Tom Kelly that suggests Foreign buyers are very interested in U.S. Real Estate. He discusses three points about foreign buyers that are very interesting and informative. I think that even though we are seeing U.S. buyers sitting on the fence and our Dollar is losing i...

Today the Federal Reserve cut the Interest rates again lowering the rates another 75 basis points to 3.5 percent. The idea is that they want to keep us from going into a recession. Do any of you think that it well help? If so how? And what good do you think it will accomplish? If you don't think ...

I read that an agent was sued buy his buyer/client in an article I read from REALTOR® Magazine. This is taking place in North County California where the buyer claims that the agent did not disclose all of the comparable comps to them when they bought the home. While the agent claims his innocenc...