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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.

Home prices in Scottsdale vary widely, and follow a pattern of more affordable in the south, to more expensive in the northern most communities.  For home buyers moving to the area, it’s eye opening to see just how many different price ranges of homes there are in a town that seems to be known for [...]

Keeping an Eye on Scottsdale Real Estate

by Dru Bloomfield on May 14, 2008

Jay Butler at Arizona Stat University published his updated real estate report, covering the Phoenix metropolitan area, yesterday.  Greater Phoenix resale numbers up for April, median prices down But, the bottom line for Scottsdale is that the number of homes sold and median sales price is down. Per the report: The Scottsdale resale home market declined from [...]

The median list price for re-sale residential homes in Scottsdale has been rising steadily since last fall.  However in most Scottsdale zip codes, the prices increases are seen in the upper 25% of the price range.  In the following charts, the first group is defined as lowest 25% priced homes and increase up to the fourth quadrant which [...]

Scottsdale Real Estate Prices Remain Stable

by Dru Bloomfield on April 14, 2008

Hot off the press from the W. P Carey School of Business at ASU – Change in Trajectory for Declining Phoenix Real Estate Prices? Scottsdale / Paradise Valley was the only area to show stability: in December this region reported a slight drop in home prices of 3 percent, but in January home sales were back [...]

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) [...]

Scottsdale Real Estate – Prices May Vary

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 [...]