We are excited to present a sweet Spanish Revival Home in FQ Story Historic. This 1925 home was spectacularly updated by it’s present owners giving the home a custom kitchen, beautiful dining area, and professionally landscaped back yard with lap pool. Here is what we wrote on the MLS listing: What happens when a thoughtful [...]
Exterior Rehab Assistant For Historic Homes in Phoenix
Tips You Will Want To Know When Insuring Your Condo in Downtown Phoenix

Tina Kawar, a friend from Liberty Mutual Insurance, was talking about some the problems people face when insuring a condominium. Since we have a lot of condos in downtown Phoenix and a lot of clients with condos, we asked Tina to offer some of her sage wisdom when insuring your condo in downtown Phoenix, AZ. [...]
Good News For Realty Executives Phoenix

I am at a Realty Executives Phoenix gathering while writing this post. Realty Executives is the brokerage the Urban Team belongs. A bit of history about our company. We are a locally owned company… Not some out of state faceless corporation. For nearly 3 decades Realty Executives has been considered the premiere real estate brokerage [...]
Phoenix Area Shadow Inventory, Fact or Fiction
The topic of a real estate shadow inventory is often mentioned when people find out I am a Realtor. They talk about the secret stash of homes bring held by banks like it is an alien abduction story. I can’t blame anyone as US banks have done little to promote warm-fuzzy feelings like trust, honor, [...]
5606 N 17th St., Phoenix AZ 85016 MLS 47801374, a Phoenix town home
Downtown Phoenix AZ Real Estate News June 2012
What have homes sold for in my Phoenix area neighborhood
Do you ever wonder what price the homes in your neighborhood actually sold at? You are not alone. We probably get 10-15 calls a month from friends and clients asking what was the actual sales price of a home in their neighborhood. We are happy to look up the home sales information in your Phoenix [...]
Portland 2 Condos Phase II are coming out of the ground.
A few years back an interesting modern condo development popped up near Portland and 7th Street called Portland II. The builder, Odyssey Homes, built five 4-level condos located in two buildings with the intention of adding additional buildings. The only problem was timing. The first phase of Portland 2 came to market in 2008, about [...]
Downtown and Phoenix Short Sales Are Getting Easier
Those of us who help homeowners short sale their homes in downtown, N. Central and other parts of Phoenix are finding the process to be more streamline and easier. The banks have better systems in place and are finding short sales to be preferable to foreclosure in many ways. Foreclosures often cost lenders and investors [...]