Believe it or not, you can buy real estate in Scottsdale for under $100,000, especially in today’s market. Granted there are not many homes in this price range, when compared to the whole Scottsdale market, but they are available. Twenty eight homes, primarily condos, have sold in the city at these entry level prices, since the first of [...]
From the monthly archives:
November 2008
Calie Waterhouse, my once real estate assistant and now full-fledged Realtor colleague, and I were talking yesterday. About politics. We tend to be on either ends of the spectrum, yet we always manage to delicately have conversations, where we respectfully share bits and pieces of our personal and political beliefs. Yesterday, I mentioned to her [...]
Gateway Loop Trail Originally uploaded by davidanthonyporter One of my colleagues from SEPACS emailed me some info about her friends’ Scottsdale-based business, Take a Hike Arizona. The more I explore their web site, the more I want to share about their company which provides guided hikes to families, individuals, and groups, as well as [...]
The Cromford Report is packed full of excellent real estate data for the Phoenix market. I’ll be incorporating this home sales information from Scottsdale periodically, since it highlights the current condition of our real estate market here in the Valley of the Sun. You can see that the number of Scottsdale home sales have improved a bit recently. In September, [...]
photo credit: Ruth L The weather is gorgeous, and the Scottsdale Old Town Farmer’s Market is back in business on Saturday mornings from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Highlights: Best local growers from the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix / Scottsdale and all the surrounding area) providing a variety of organic fruit and vegetables. More that 40 vendors [...]
photo credit: Dru Bloomfield – At Home in Scottsdale I just picked up the following from the City of Scottsdale: Golf World magazine readers have ranked Scottsdale as the fourth best place in the world to golf. Using a 10-point scale, readers were asked to evaluate 38 different destinations based on seven criteria, including quality [...]
Bryan Jones over at the Talon Group emailed me the following spreadsheet with bank owned property statistics for many of the major cities that occurred during the month of October. City Total Sales REO Sales* % REO Sales* Median Price REO Price* Buckeye 137 88 64% $120,000 $114,500 Tolleson 73 45 62% $139,900 $130,900 Avondale [...]
