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How do you think buyers are paying for their single family homes in Scottsdale this year? Cash? Conventional financing? FHA loans? Down payment assistance programs? Seller carry? I mistakenly assumed that we were seeing an increase in the number of buyers paying cash this year. (Click on the chart for a larger view.) In actuality, conventional financing [...]

Using Both Sides of Your Brain to Buy a House

by Dru Bloomfield on September 16, 2008

photo credit: wadem As human beings, we have two sides to our brain.  Simplistically, I call them the thinking and feeling sides.  One side we use to crunch numbers, and the other we use to enjoy an aesthetically pleasing (or not) piece of art.  When I work with home buyers, I remind them to use [...]

Raintree Ranch in Chandler – Lake Living

by Dru Bloomfield on September 15, 2008

This past weekend, I spent time with one of my clients who is purchasing a home in Raintree Ranch in Chandler.  When the home inspection was completed, I slipped upstairs to get a photo of this great view from the master bedroom balcony. We do have a number of communities in Scottsdale and Chandler are [...]

Buyer Looking for a 3 bedroom home in South Scottsdale

by Dru Bloomfield on September 12, 2008

Everyone is looking for a change in the local real estate market.  Yesterday, I got a call from a TV reporter asking if I was taking buyers to look at homes in the afternoon, as she would like to interview us.  The gist of the interview of the buyer was to be, “Why are you buying [...]

Phoenix Real Estate: Around the valley

by Dru Bloomfield on September 6, 2008

After looking at earlier this week, I thought it would be interesting to see how some of the other communities around the valley are doing.  The following graphs show the number of new listings vs. the number of absorbed listings for Cave Creek, Chandler, Fountain Hills, Gilbert, Mesa, Paradise Valley, Phoenix, Queen Creek, Scottsdale, and [...]

Scottsdale Real Estate Update: Looking for good news

by Dru Bloomfield on September 2, 2008

It feels like the real estate market has been in a static place for most of the summer, and then several weeks ago, my phone and email started going crazy.  Buyers were asking questions and seriously ready to buy homes. Today’s Altos Research reports show that my experience is pretty much in alignment with the [...]

Why Do I Write?

by Dru Bloomfield on September 1, 2008

Not much in the way of writing or blogging has come out of me in the past couple of weeks. I’ve wondered if it’s writer’s block, or if I’m getting bored, or if there’s just nothing new to report about. It’s a combination of all that, and more. A couple months ago, I had a [...]