Author: Marta Walsh
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Mayo Clinic To Open Medical School in North Scottsdale
Good news for the area to the far east of Scottsdale along the Shea Corridor. AZCentral is reporting that Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic will join forces with Arizona State University to develop a new $266 million medical-school branch in Scottsdale that could begin teaching medical students by 2014. The Rochester, Minn.-based medical school plans to […]
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MLS Listings Just Got A Design Upgrade
Hopefully as you read this blog post you will notice it’s easy to read. One reason for this is I use fonts specifically designed for the web. I use a font subscription service called typekit, which loads the fonts from their servers rather than being dependent on the font’s installed on your computer or mobile device. The […]
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Horses in Scottsdale
Living in a Western town means you are never too far from a horse. Many properties have horse privileges and in the Northern reaches of Scottsdale there are still ranches. Number of properties for sale with horse privileges today. 157 Cheapest horse property currently for sale. $122,900 Most expensive Scottsdale horse property currently for sale. $13,900,000 And lastly. Number […]
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20% Down Payment
Having 20% downpayment towards a home purchase is the ideal amount for financed loans, even 25% can be preferable for jumbo loans. Up to this point that percentage has been seen as ideal not mandatory, depending on other circumstances. There had been calls to make the 20% a regulation for borrowers to get access to the best […]
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Tip For Homes Sellers – Listing Private Remarks
There is one part of home listing that doesn’t appear in online real estate sites like zillow.com etc. That is the private remarks REALTORS leave for other REALTORS. The field in the Arizona Multiple Listing Service is know as Private Remarks – DND2, where DND stands for Do Not Disclose. When you are handed a […]
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People Still Want to Buy Their Home
Confidence gets shaken. Neighbors get foreclosed. Homes sink underwater. But you cannot dislodge the underlying belief in people that owning their home is the best way to go. 70 percent of Americans said homeownership is part of achieving their American Dream. The data for this comes from Trulia. My favorite site of the real estate power portals. […]