photo credit: woodleywonderworks From the Scottsdale Unified School District Community Connection newsletter, dated August 28, 2009: The K-3 Override is a continuation of an existing override approved initially by voters in 2005. The K-3 Override reduces Kindergarten class size to a District-wide target of 21 students to 1 teacher. These funds also allow us to [...]
From the monthly archives:
August 2009
Scottsdale home prices have plateaued over the past 3 months. Price per square foot is one indicator of market health, and you can see that in Scottsdale, that figure has been hovering in the $180/square foot range. At the same time, you can see that prices are still down 10%, when compared to this year’s [...]
Hard to believe that here in Phoenix, buyers and their Realtors are feeling like there’s a housing shortage. Home buyers are frustrated, because they are making offer after offer, with no success. Investors are grumping that they can’t buy a foreclosure or a fix-up, when they are competing against each other for the dwindling supply of homes. Multiple [...]
Last week, I had a buyer ask me if she could write offers on three separate properties, and then just go with the one that was accepted first. In theory, she could do this, although some would recommend disclosing that a buyer is writing multiple offers. In fact, this type of disclosure was done in [...]
This is one real estate statistic that we’d all like to see improve. Pending foreclosures in Maricopa County (for all real estate property types) continues to increase, approaching 50% since the beginning of the year, January 2009. You can see that the number of foreclosures remained relatively constant from 2002 through 2006, and then the [...]
My husband coaches and my son plays on a Challenger Little League team. Created for kids with special needs, both physical and developmental, Challenger has been a part of our life for eight years. The rules are: games are two innings long, every player hits, every player runs all the bases. Sometime a team of [...]
