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Sweet Home Deals in FQ Story Historic Phoenix

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

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

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

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 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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