photo credit: DRB62 Several times a year, the City of Scottsdale hosts a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day. It’s an easy way to clean our your garage and properly dispose of items that should not go to the landfill. The next event is this Saturday, April 9th, from 7:30 am to 2 pm, at the [...]
From the monthly archives:
April 2011
If you are a detail person, you are going to love the 6-page March Real Estate Market Review I got from Cynthia Lujan over at Old Republic Title Agency. Compiled by Mike Orr (yes, he’s everywhere) at the Cromford Report, the report highlights what’s going on generally in the Phoenix market, and than breaks it [...]
photo credit: backkratze This past week, as a follow on to the question, “What percent of homes in Scottsdale are vacant?”, I was asked, “What percent of homes in Scottsdale are “upside down”?” When a house is “upside down”, or “underwater”, it’s worth less than what is owed on it. Knowing this was an exceedingly difficult [...]
The City of Scottsdale has some great information on their web site. I’m always finding something new. Yesterday, I found this report — City of Scottsdale: Quick Statistics Some of the data is from 2008, and there may be some updates coming now that the 2010 Census data is available. Other info is fairly static, [...]
Someone recently asked me “what percent of houses in Scottsdale were vacant?” I didn’t have the answer off the top of my head, so it took a little digging. From the U.S. Census Bureau data, I found the following counts for Total Homes in both Arizona and Scottsdale, along with the number of vacant homes. [...]
4/1/2011 2:30 pm Not sure if I’m ready for this weather, but it’s here. Forecasted high in Scottsdale today is 99 degrees.
photo credit: Michael | Ruiz Nick Bastian over at RailLife.com got me good this morning. He emailed a link about a light rail announcement that included federal funding for an extension into Old Town Scottsdale. Needless to say, I was so excited, I TOTALLY glossed over the details, and forgot that today is April 1st. [...]
