Author: Marta Walsh

  • Phoenix Real Estate Market: Above and Below One Million Dollars

    A million dollars buys quite a lot of home these days. Especially in Phoenix. Here the numbers. Under one million. 18,444 homes fully active for sale (NO contingencies). $4,320,235,875 Total Inventory. (Apple could easily buy all of Phoenix real estate with it’s cash on hand. 2,044 average square feet. $234,261 average list price. Over one […]

  • Phoenix Area Real Estate Stats For September

    ARMLS the multiple listing service provider for the Phoenix metro area publishes a monthly statistics newsletter called STAT. If you read this blog often you will know I like to produce my own statistics by analyzing the MLS data but it’s always useful to check out how other people read and interpret data. Highlights From […]

  • Homes For Sale in Scottsdale – New Listings

    What’s new to the market in Scottsdale. Inventory is low right now. Sure buyer demand is not that strong either but there are some buyers ready to buy. One thing to keep an eye on what has just listed. Some of the listings in the MLS are there for a reason. Ugly houses that are […]

  • Terravita, Scottsdale

    Yesterday I was working with a client in Terravita a luxury subdivision in the further northern reaches of Scottsdale. Carefree is almost within touching distance from there. One thing I notice in Terravita compared to some other golf and country club communities is the homes are a bit more spread out. That has it’s pluses […]

  • Desert Ridge, Phoenix

    If you read my blog posts often you will notice I don’t write much about Phoenix. In general I don’t know that much about Phoenix. It’s just so big. So many areas and I’ve only lived in either Scottsdale or Paradise Valley. One area I do know reasonably well in Phoenix is Biltmore. Today I […]

  • Warren Buffett Betting on Housing

    Warren Buffett is buying into real estate companies. While his comments stop short of saying when a recovery will occur he is fully confident it will. The slump is “a necessary correction, but it is not a correction that’s over in a day or a week or a month,” Buffett said at Fortune magazine’s Most […]