by Dru Bloomfield on August 14, 2008
Sometimes it’s challenging to know what’s really going on in the Scottsdale real estate market. The news tends to focus on large areas and general statistics that don’t really give us an understanding for what is going on in our specific town or neighborhood. Chris Butterworth’s post this morning on the Northwest Phoenix Market Statistics [...]
by Dru Bloomfield on March 27, 2008
I received an email from a potential home buyer this week, telling me that it is not a good time to buy a home. I didn’t necessarily agree, so I shared some of the following information with her. I asked if she’d be following the interest rate forecasts, and let her know that inventories (homes for sale) [...]
by Dru Bloomfield on March 17, 2008
I got a call from Misty Williams at the East Valley Tribune this past week for an update on the Scottsdale real estate market. It’s challenging to cover such a wide-ranging topic in a twenty minute phone call, yet Misty asked some excellent questions and took away the key points of our conversation. The front page photo [...]
by Dru Bloomfield on February 26, 2008
“Should I buy now? Or wait, and rent for awhile?” Seems to be the most popular question to ask here in the Phoenix recently. I was asked the same questions a couple days ago by a prospective client. Many buyers are looking for some strong signal that the real estate market has hit the bottom [...]