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Heading into the Fall Real Estate Season

by Dru Bloomfield on August 30, 2008

It’s still hot in Scottsdale. Yet, buyer interest is up.  My email box is filling up, my phone is ringing, and I’m seeing more open house signs out on the weekend.  In a few more weeks, and we will be heading straight into the fall home selling season, typically the second busiest time of the year, [...]

Buyer Interest Heating Up in McCormick Ranch Zip Code

by Dru Bloomfield on August 27, 2008

I had a pleasant surprise in my weekly report from Altos Research for Scottsdale, Arizona 85258.  McCormick Ranch and Gainey Ranch are two of the major communities in this zip code.  Median home list prices are rising. The number of houses on the market is decreasing. The time to sell is also decreasing. Still a buyer’s market, [...]

Scottsdale Real Estate: What’s Selling This Month?

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 [...]

Phoenix area homes are selling in the lower price ranges

by Dru Bloomfield on August 10, 2008

From the Arizona Republic today, Housing market reflects positives: “Homes priced under $350,000 are selling much quicker than the rest of the market. An analysis from Jim Sexton, president of real-estate firm John Hall & Associates, shows there is only a seven-month supply of homes in that lower range. That’s a healthy level.” Yesterday, I [...]

Scottsdale Home Prices: Skiing down hill, or not?

by Dru Bloomfield on August 5, 2008

A couple days ago, I wrote a post, Scottsdale Home and Condo Price Update, where the charts showing home prices looked like they were in a free fall.  In fact, one of my colleagues at Phoenix Market Trends, commented that it looks “like the median price trend line would be a good hill to ski [...]

Scottsdale Home and Condo Price Update

by Dru Bloomfield on August 3, 2008

This chart pretty much says it all.  As prices have decreased over the summer, single family homes homes have sold or been taken off the market. Condo prices have been falling steadily over the past year, and inventory (number of homes available for sale) started tapering off this past spring.

Back to Scottsdale – It’s Good to be Home

by Dru Bloomfield on July 29, 2008

I planned to keep on blogging while I attended RE Barcamp and Inman Connect in San Francisco last week.  After all, I was going there to connect with blogging Realtors, and get all the latest information I could find on the ever evolving role of Social Media in the buying and selling of real estate, [...]