Downtown and Greater Phoenix Real Estate News July 2011

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First we thank you for stopping by to see what the downtown and greater Phoenix real estate market is doing. In a nutshell, things are definitely getting more peppy. If you’ve been trying to buy a home in the under $200,000 market you’ve likely been met with multiple offers and people offering over asking price. [...]

Downtown Phoenix Real Estate and Housing Market May 2011

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There are many reasons to be excited about the future of the Phoenix housing market, especially in the downtown sector. This article will look at the downtown and midtown Phoenix market. If you would like analysis on your particular zip-code, we’d be happy to supply that for you on an individual request basis. We believe [...]

Why do people want to move to downtown Phoenix?

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Inman News just posted an article showing that Phoenix is one of the most search for areas in the US for home buyers. This got the ol brain a working on why. If you live here you have your own reasons and we put together a list of them on our Greater Phoenix web site. [...]

How to keep your downtown Phoenix home safe and secure

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Home security is often on people’s minds, whether you live in downtown Phoenix or the surrounding areas. When we have security questions or needs we turn to a locally owned firm, Safeguard Security. They keep many of our clients home’s safe as well as thousands of others around the valley. We were talking to Shanna [...]

Downtown Phoenix Home Value Report April 2011

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Happy April 2011 and welcome to information about the state of the downtown real estate market. To be very brief, there is reason to be glad about the home and condo market in downtown Phoenix. We just wrote an article with lots of market data on the state of the downtown home market and posted [...]

Phoenix HUD House Auction Information, Rules, Help 2011

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Much has been in the news about the March 26, 2011 HUD auction at the JW Marriott at Desert Ridge. 150 homes will be auctioned by HUD with many good incentives to the buyers. HUD home buyers have had a number of questions and we thought we’d try to simplify things with some answers. Our [...]

Phoenix Real Estate Market Looking Up

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There may be reasons to smile again when discussing the Greater Phoenix real estate market… not a big I just fell in love grin, but not the sad clowns face of the past couple years. We are basically supply and demand guys. We like to see the supply fairly low and the demand legitimately robust. [...]

The Urban Team has a new web presence at RealtyExecutives.com

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We are pretty darn excited about what our brokerage, Realty Executives, is doing. For some time now they have been working hard to create a more expansive internet presence for both the company and agents like Ron and me. They hired a real tech-head named Darrell Smith and asked him to make Realty Executives stand [...]

Chateau on Central News, Opinion and a Review

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By Gene Urban,  The Urban Team For the past week I’ve been mulling over what to write about Chateau on Central. I attended the grand opening party a bit over a week ago, took a follow-up tour last week, spent some time talking to the brokerage staff and let it gestate. To be honest, I [...]

November 2010 Downtown and Phoenix Real Estate Report

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We just received the latest downtown and greater Phoenix real estate market report for November 2010. The report is courtesy of our friends at Fidelity National Title and Mike Orr of the Cromford Report. If you’ve been reading our blogs for a while, you already know about Mike Orr. If not, he is arguably the [...]