Report Calls Phoenix One of the Worst Places to Retire…NOT TRUE!
PHOENIX – The Phoenix metro is named one of the worst cities in the country to retire — and you can blame it on the housing market. (see video interview below)
The valley used to be the place to retire — at least part of the [...]
Gay and Lesbian Friendly Neighborhoods in the West
Bette Zerba
Peoria, Arizona
Like most urban-to-rural homeowners, Bette Zerba wanted the quiet and safety of a smaller neighborhood. The Realtor and her partner, Bonnie Burns, picked their Peoria home because it’s 25 minutes from downtown Phoenix, and a world away in privacy. With homes going [...]
Several pieces of important Arizona legislation that would have slowed foreclosures and potentially aided in the recovery of the housing market died in the recent session.
But some key bills did survive, and the new laws will help.
• Senate Bill 1130 regulates the growing number of foreclosure consultants working with homeowners. This legislation makes it illegal [...]
Phoenix Home Prices Improve
Phoenix is one 91 cities out of 152 across the country to post an increase in home prices during the past year.
Results from the National Association of Realtors latest survey, released Today, show existing home prices climbed 9.1 percent in the Phoenix-area for the 12 months ended March 31st. The region’s median [...]
Arizona No. 4 For Mortgage Fraud
Arizona now ranks fourth for mortgage fraud nationally. It’s the first time the state has cracked the top five for the problem, according to data released this week from the Mortgage Asset Research Institute.
Florida, New York and California (in that order) rank ahead of Arizona in 2009 mortgage-fraud cases. The [...]
Significant drop in Phoenix AZ pre-foreclosures posted in January, raising hopes for positive trend
January’s significant drop in pre-foreclosures is the indicator many metropolitan Phoenix housing-market watchers have been anxiously looking for during the past several months.
For the first time since November 2008, the monthly tally of Valley homeowners to fall behind on their mortgages and [...]