From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Walking Downtown Scottsdale

by Dru Bloomfield on July 31, 2008

One of the things I like about living in Scottsdale is that I can walk and ride my bike many places.  Scottsdale is filled with bike paths and lane, walking paths, and nature trails.  Today, the City of Scottsdale emailed out these links to walking paths in the Downtown Scottsale area.  Canal Bank Loop 1 [...]

Back to Scottsdale – It’s Good to be Home

by Dru Bloomfield on July 29, 2008

I planned to keep on blogging while I attended RE Barcamp and Inman Connect in San Francisco last week.  After all, I was going there to connect with blogging Realtors, and get all the latest information I could find on the ever evolving role of Social Media in the buying and selling of real estate, [...]

Downtown Scottsdale is on a roll. A couple months ago I wrote about the Fashion Square and Southgate videos. And now there are four more video updates to add to the collection: Old Town Scottsdale – An eclectic mix of shops, with an old west flavor.  Many of the shop buildings were built in the [...]

Are we really in a housing crisis?

by Dru Bloomfield on July 18, 2008

From CNBC News: IS THE HOUSING CRISIS REALLY A “CRISIS”? In his commentary, Dennis Kneale crunches the numbers. Dennis’ white board explanation of the actual numbers, puts it all in perspective.

Are you prepared? Summer monsoons have arrived

by Dru Bloomfield on July 11, 2008

It’s not often we wake up to cloudy skies and a light drizzle.  Leftovers from last nights monsoon. Since I live just off the Indian Bend Wash, the major flood control channel for Scottsdale, I can usually tell how heavy the rain was the night before by the helicoptor traffic. This morning the news choppers [...]

This post, The Improving Phoenix Real Estate Market, by Phil Sexton over in our corporate John Hall & Associates office is well worth the read.   Phil loves his charts and the one he’s posted on the company blog is one of the most optimistic views I’ve seen in the past couple of years.

Home prices in Scottsdale vary widely, and follow a pattern of more affordable in the south, to more expensive in the northern most communities.  For home buyers moving to the area, it’s eye opening to see just how many different price ranges of homes there are in a town that seems to be known for [...]