Category: North Scottsdale
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Cactus League Spring Training | Nearby Lunch Ideas
Wanting to grab a quick lunch near the Salt River fields, home of both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies? Here are some possible’s with no more than a 10 minute drive from the fields. Sandwich: The french dip at Houston’s is a perennial favorite. Rare beef, yummy au jus and creamy horseradish on the side served […]
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Percentage of Delinquent Mortgages Declining
Finally some good news on the delinquent mortgage front in news from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties decreased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.22 percent of all loans outstanding as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, a decrease of 91 basis points […]
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Great Houses Deserve Great Pictures
I was looking through the searches people typed into google to come to my site today. One of the searches was “the importance of professional real estate pictures” and the search linked to this blog post. In the other searches for this term I saw a great article written in the New York Times about […]
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Arizona Real Estate January Snapshot
I received some market data from Tom Newell at First American Title today. In January in Maricopa county there were 5480 single family homes sold. The median price for a single family home was $119,000. Working in the luxury market it’s easy for me to forget sometimes the sheer volume of homes selling at our […]
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Banks Demanding Higher Down Payments
An interesting article today in the WSJ about the current state of down payments in the mortgage market. The median down payment in nine major U.S. cities rose to 22% last year on properties purchased through conventional mortgages, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by real-estate portal Zillow.com. That percentage doubled in […]
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Open House In Pinnacle Peak
Today I will be sitting an open house at 9820 E Pinnacle Peak RD, Scottsdale, Arizona a beautiful Santa Fe stle house right on Pinnacle Peak Road. The home is on a 5 acre lot and is offered for sale at $3,000,000. The cross streets are Pima and Pinnacle Peak, just head east from Pima […]