In Arizona, the standard residential real estate contract calls for the home seller to deliver a Seller Disclosure document to the buyer within 5 days of an accepted offer. From the Arizona Seller’s Property Disclosure Statement (SPDS): Sellers are obligated by law to disclose all known material (important) facts about the property to the buyer. [...]
From the monthly archives:
August 2011
I feel like I’ve shown every condo in Scottsdale under $100,000 in the last 3 months. I know that’s an exaggeration, but in February I was saying that the condo market was dead in Scottsdale. In May, I was writing about short sales being perfect for vacation home buyers. And from there, it just blew [...]
Some sellers consider staging their home when preparing to sell. In this video, I share a bit about home staging, re-staging, and web staging as options for preparing your home for market and the most enticing on-line presentation.
(Click for a larger view.) Had to do a double take when I looked at this Cromford Report Chart showing “Distressed Sales as a Percentage of Monthly Sales” for the month of July 2011. I was looking to see how Scottsdale was faring, and was startled to see that no short sales closed in Fountain [...]
One of my clients just had a home inspection completed where he asked the home inspector to do a thermal imaging inspection in addition to his normal inspection. Matthew Jenks, of First Step Home Inspectors, is the only inspector in the valley that I know of, who is using this special camera, to find issues [...]
If you are planning on selling your home, it’s critical that you market on-line. With 85% of home buyers searching for their home via the Internet, your home needs to have great photos, a custom web site, and lots of exposure. Have information quickly available for the buyer with a smart mobile phone is really [...]
Short Sale Snapshot - Click on chart to see a larger view. From my perspective, short sales have gotten easier, overall. Still long, still tedious, still challenging. But, short sale properties are getting multiple offers, and selling. Looking at the latest Cromford Report data from the Phoenix area, focusing just on short sales, it’s encouraging to see [...]
