Sweet Home Deals in FQ Story Historic Phoenix
I can’t really explain it but there are a lot of homes for sale in FQ Story these days. When I searched for homes in FQ Story today for a client I found 14 homes on the market.That compares with only 4 homes for sale in Encanto Palmcroft. Pretty strange but good news if you’ve been thinking about buying in FQ Story. For those who don’t know too much about FQ Stroy, we have an article posted on our original Urban Team site that has a bit of history. Here is a link to the article: Information and History About The FQ ...
Short Sales and Bank Owned Homes Offer Sweet Downtown Historic Deals
Have you thought about buying a historic home in downtown Phoenix. In years past the prices made this impossible for many. Now, however, short sales and bank owned historic homes have made ownership possible for many more people. I just ran a search of homes in the downtown region built prior to 1945 and a number of short sale or bank owned homes were among the offerings. FQ Story has a couple homes in the $150,000 range and there was one in Palmcroft for $295,000 or about the same price it sold for in 2003. There are positives and negatives to buying ...
Information About HAFA and Short Sales in Phoenix
Short sales are big news in the real estate industry these days. With a large number of people owning more on their home/condo than its worth, folks are pondering a short sale as one of their options. This is evident in the downtown region with about 1/4th of all active listings being short sales. The US Government, for better or worse, has adopted a program called HAFA (Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternative) to help streamline the short sale process. Some of our readers have emailed asking: What is the HAFA program? We are here today to answer that question. In case you don’t ...
Lenders Use Deception to Get Promissory Note Signed
Many of our readers know we are very involved with people trying to sell their home by short sale. We have a dedicated short sale site, Short-Sale-Phoenix.com and have written dozens of articles on the subject including our newest about how some lenders and PMI companies use lies, mistruths and threats to intimidate homeowners into signing promissory notes. I know you are shocked a bank would do such a thing… Not. Anyway, we just posted a real world example of the email one of our clients received from their lender. Our clients are ideal short sale candidates… they both lost ...
Yaple Park Historic District Information
A BIT OF YAPLE PARK’S HISTORY: Yaple Park Historic district is a history lesson of 20th century Phoenix told through houses and buildings. Yaple Park roots date back to 1899 when James & Sue Yaple purchased about 30 acres of land below the Grand Canal between what is now 7th and 3rd Avenue. The Yaple’s were grain and citrus growers who utilized the canal system for irrigation. Mr. Yaple passed on in 1911 leaving the operation to his wife. Sue carried on the farm until 1929 when she swung a deal with the Coggins Title Company to subdivide and develop the property. Today, ...
44 Monroe Future Still Unknown
44 Monroe, the exclusive condo tower in downtown Phoenix did go to trustee sale and the documents were recorded on June 1, 2010. Many wonder when 44 Monroe condo units will be available for purchase and at what price. To be honest, no one currently knows. 186 of the 201 units were purchased by Corus Construction Venture, LLC for twenty million dollars. The remaining 15 units are privately owned. If you do the math, CCV picked up the available condos for about $107,500 each plus acquisition costs. Many speculate Corus Construction Ventures, a subsidiary of Starwood Capital Group, will release the ...
Vanishing Phoenix and Downtown’s Fox Theater
Robert Melikian, owner of the San Carlos Hotel, offered a presentation yesterday of his new book Vanishing Phoenix. The talk, hosted by the City of Phoenix, gathered a standing room only crowd as Melikian took us on a tour of great buildings and homes lost over the years. Rob’s talk was an amazing history lesson and it was very sad. Many epic places are gone forever and some of what replaced them is anomic. For me, the most awful loss is the Fox Theater once located on the SE corner of Washington and 2nd Street in downtown Phoenix. The Fox Theater ...
Sweet Home Deals in FQ Story Historic Phoenix
I can’t really explain it but there are a lot of homes for sale in FQ Story these days. When I searched for homes in FQ Story today for a client I found 14 homes on the market.That compares with only 4 homes for sale in Encanto Palmcroft. Pretty strange but good news if you’ve been thinking about buying in FQ Story. For those who don’t know too much about FQ Stroy, we have an article posted on... [Read more about this property]
Short Sales and Bank Owned Homes Offer Sweet Downtown Historic Deals
Have you thought about buying a historic home in downtown Phoenix. In years past the prices made this impossible for many. Now, however, short sales and bank owned historic homes have made ownership possible for many more people. I just ran a search of homes in the downtown region built prior to 1945 and a number of short sale or bank owned homes were among the offerings. FQ Story has a couple homes... [Read more about this property]
Information About HAFA and Short Sales in Phoenix
Short sales are big news in the real estate industry these days. With a large number of people owning more on their home/condo than its worth, folks are pondering a short sale as one of their options. This is evident in the downtown region with about 1/4th of all active listings being short sales. The US Government, for better or worse, has adopted a program called HAFA (Home Affordable Foreclosure... [Read more about this property]
Lenders Use Deception to Get Promissory Note Signed
Many of our readers know we are very involved with people trying to sell their home by short sale. We have a dedicated short sale site, Short-Sale-Phoenix.com and have written dozens of articles on the subject including our newest about how some lenders and PMI companies use lies, mistruths and threats to intimidate homeowners into signing promissory notes. I know you are shocked a bank would do such... [Read more about this property]
Yaple Park Historic District Information
A BIT OF YAPLE PARK’S HISTORY: Yaple Park Historic district is a history lesson of 20th century Phoenix told through houses and buildings. Yaple Park roots date back to 1899 when James & Sue Yaple purchased about 30 acres of land below the Grand Canal between what is now 7th and 3rd Avenue. The Yaple’s were grain and citrus growers who utilized the canal system for irrigation. Mr. Yaple passed... [Read more about this property]
44 Monroe Future Still Unknown
44 Monroe, the exclusive condo tower in downtown Phoenix did go to trustee sale and the documents were recorded on June 1, 2010. Many wonder when 44 Monroe condo units will be available for purchase and at what price. To be honest, no one currently knows. 186 of the 201 units were purchased by Corus Construction Venture, LLC for twenty million dollars. The remaining 15 units are privately owned. If... [Read more about this property]
Vanishing Phoenix and Downtown’s Fox Theater
Robert Melikian, owner of the San Carlos Hotel, offered a presentation yesterday of his new book Vanishing Phoenix. The talk, hosted by the City of Phoenix, gathered a standing room only crowd as Melikian took us on a tour of great buildings and homes lost over the years. Rob’s talk was an amazing history lesson and it was very sad. Many epic places are gone forever and some of what replaced them... [Read more about this property]
Search For Homes, Condos, Rentals
We like to think our downtown Phoenix home search tool is second to none. It offers map based searches and allows you to search based on a variety of features and benefits including “walk score.” We have set up the search engine to provide several niche searches for your convenience. The information is real-time and provided by ARMLS, the MLS system used by Realtors in the Greater Phoenix... [Read more about this property]
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