Earlier this week, I read the Phoenix Real Estate Market by Tom Ruff on the John Hall & Associates blog.
Lots of good info that validates some of my experience with lender owned properties over the past month, plus brings to light some additional encouraging news about our local real estate market.
- Phoenix area home sales are up.
- Foreclosure sales are down.
- Foreclosure notices are up.
- Pending trustee sales are being postponed.
- Foreclosures now appear to be being released onto the market in a staged manner.
- Banks are checking on home occupancy prior to foreclosure, and if occupied, attempting to work with occupant.
- Also, the price per square foot for pending foreclosures is now higher than those recently sold.
And, directly from Tom’s report:
In our 25 years of compiling data, we have always considered March a bellwether month. March will normally tell you how the summer will trend all the way through August. Don’t ask me why, it’s just one of those things you notice after 25 years. March is telling us sales volume is up and continuing to climb, the rate at which median home prices are falling is declining, clearly signaling prices are approaching their much anticipated bottom.
I highly recommend reading the whole report.
(Originally posted at Click2AZ.com.)
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