Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog

One of my favorite “ignorant American” jokes is, “Do they have 4th of July in France?”. Why yes, of course they do.
At any rate, many of my colleagues in the Valley of the Sun have written about the cool places to attend 4th of July celebrations in and around Phoenix. I’ll be up at our [...]

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Attending my company’s quarterly event last week, I was reminded of the many, many aspects of a purchase contract that we agents take for granted, but that the general public is unaware of. One of those aspects regards the transfer of personal property via the sale.
Section 1g of the standard Arizona Residential Resale Real [...]

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Via GeekBrief.tv, which reported they found out about this via TechCrunch, I found out about SpotCrime. SpotCrime has a map based display of crime information, which they are making available for several Arizona cities. The web site allows you to search by reported crime type, which they show on the map, for a given [...]

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My client selected a home in Queen Creek after looking at more than 20 homes in person, and over 150 homes via her Client Gateway that I set up in ARMLS.  Actually, looking at 20 homes wasn’t too challenging.  Every one of them was vacant, so they were typically easy to view, if I didn’t [...]

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I don’t post often on Saturdays, but this seems like a good time to acknowledge that Dru Bloomfield roped me into being a panelist at the upcoming Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors Technology Symposium.  Jay Thompson, Dru, and myself will be hosted by Kevin Garner, Managing Director of the NAR’s Center for Realtor Technology, answering [...]

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It’s ridiculously late Monday night, and I have a long day scheduled tomorrow, but I can’t let the day end without making a quick comment regarding a conversation on Trulia Voices. A recent poster asked about searching the MLS for homes without needing to sign up at the site they were searching on. [...]

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To say that I was very concerned about the condition of the bank owned homes that I would find in Queen Creek during my initial tour Sunday is an understatement. I was honestly scared to heck that property condition would be so bad that my newest client would get soured on the prospect of [...]

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