Phoenix Real Estate Market News May 2010

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Good day Urban Connection readers. Michael Orr’s real estate market report for May 2010 just arrived in our mail box and we wanted to share the info with you. The full report and Michael’s numbers and analysis of the Phoenix residential real estate market is below. Just click on a page to have it open [...]

Real Estate and Home Values 85014

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Today, May 18 2010,  we’ll be taking a look at the real estate and home/condo market in Phoenix zip code 85014. The map to the right shows you the boundaries to this narrow region of mid-town and central Phoenix, AZ. As you can see, Camelback sits midway and 7th Street and the 51 bound it [...]

Downtown Non-Traditional Office Space Available

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Looking for a small, affordable, hip, non-corporate office, design/art studio space or urban crash-pad near downtown and the First Friday Art Destinations? Check out THE CARRIAGE HOUSE @ 9th & Pierce (Orange Building), conveniently located near downtown Phoenix in the Triangle Neighborhood adjacent to the Grand Avenue Arts District and the I-10/7th Avenue on/off ramps. [...]

Fairview Place Affordable Historic Living

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Fairview Place is one of the more affordable historic home districts in the downtown Phoenix areas in the downtown Phoenix area. There are trade offs in that it resides to the west of Encanto/Palmcroft and not easy walking distance to light rail and many downtown venues. Grand Ave is close by, as is Encanto Park [...]

How to Fight Bad Real Estate Appraisals Phoenix

Unless you’ve bought or sold a home recently you probably don’t know about the problems the real estate industry is having with appraisals. In general, they are inaccurate and poorly done. First, let me say, in general,  this is not the fault of seasoned professional appraisers. Not surprisingly, it is the after effect of a [...]

Vote For The Melrose Garden Project Now!

The 7th Avenue Merchants Association needs your help to make a community garden possible in the Melrose District. Please read on and vote now so we can garner the grant that will make this happen. The Seventh Avenue Merchants Association has applied for a $250,000 grant from Pepsi Refresh. The grant money, with additional help [...]

Phoenix Historic Preservation Office Update

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It appears a lot of people have made their opinion on the future of the Historic Preservation Office in Phoenix heard. In a past post we asked people to take action and let Deputy City Manager David Krietor know how important the Historic Preservation Office is and will be to the future of Phoenix. I [...]

Phoenix Magazine Features Historic Preservation

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Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on the great article in Phoenix Magazine on historic preservation in the Phoenix area. Long time Phoenix historic preservationist G.G. George is heavily featured in the article as are others who value our city’s roots. Rather than do a cliffs notes post on the article, I’ve put [...]