January 2007 - Posts
I would be remiss in announcing that the Foothills Recreation and Aquatics Center in Glendale, Arizona is now open. It is located at 5600 West Union Hills Drive close to the Glendale library – Foothills branch. The Recreation and center has hours
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So you’re thinking of making the jump into the American dream (home ownership). Are you upsizing or downsizing your home because of your particular family structure or for financial reasons? The information below should help you organize and be
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A new park is set for its grand opening at Vistancia on February 10. The park is 15 acres and adjacent to the elementary school north of the Discovery models. The land is currently owned by Sunbelt Holdings and is being developed to be unique and a step
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The new Peoria Center for the Performing Arts is near completion and it expected to open February 10. The new Performing Arts Center is at the corner of 83 rd and Peoria Avenues and will seat 280. The first production in the new 20,000 square foot facility
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The US Mint has produced five designs for Arizona’s state quarter and our Governor has decided that she’s going to let the people decide. The quarters won’t be released until 2008, but My family and I have recently started our collection
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Several top home developers met at the Urban Land Institute’s Real Estate Trends conference in Phoenix the first week of January 2007. In attendance were representatives from Engle Homes and Meritage Homes to name a few. The consensus is that many
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Phoenix proper saw many of the same trends as Glendale and Peoria for home values and home sales in the last few years except Phoenix home values actually climbed slightly the last quarter of 2006. The Phoenix median home value climbed to $223,500 the
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Milder temperatures have returned to the Phoenix area. I'm waiting patiently to see the impacts to our trees and shrubs. As mentioned in prior blog entries the our nine ficus trees have taken a hit. Many are about five years old and probably will
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Continuing on in my comparisons for the prior years - GLENDALE. Glendale Arizona showed the same pattern as Peoria - home values stayed relatively stable during 2006 with only a slight drop, but the quantity of home sales did decrease. The fourth quarter
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I've spent my morning looking at sales data for resale homes in the valley. These statistics confirm what is being said in many real estate news sources - that the quantity of homes being sold in our area has diminished, but that the actual home prices
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In recent articles by the National Association of Realtors and Wall Street Journal analysts, projections are hopeful that the real estate market decline has hit a "soft landing" in 2006 and that 2007 should see a steady increase in the resale
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Over the past week or so I have noticed an increase in buyer activity. I am beginning to have some serious talks with buyers that appear ready to begin the buying process very soon. In addition, my website is seeing 3 times the traffic I received from
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Over the last week or so I have been approached by numerous sellers and future sellers and asked the impact of the possible loss of trees and plants due to the recent hard frost. There was a great article in the AZ Republic on this very subject one day
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I truely believe that this weekend we will see a great game for the AFC Championship. I am a little tired of hearing about how good Peyton Manning is. Could you imagine if Tom Brady had the core of receivers that the colts currently have. Everyone is
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The magic question... Is now the time to purchase the home of your dreams? I wish I had a nickel for every time I have been asked this question over the last 12 months. During the housing boom of 2004 and 2005, Realtors were screaming for more homes to
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Well after 3 straight days of night time temps well below the freezing mark, it appears that many, many homes in the Valley have suffered losses of many plants and trees. Some of the trees and plants most affected by the cold weather are Ficus trees,
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I visited Trilogy at Vistancia today. Although I also live in Peoria I had not been out to Trilogy at Vistancia for a few months. Most of my more recent visits had been to the Discovery Center - the non active adult portion of the community. I must pass
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I've been working on adding new content to the website. Recently I've been successful in adding several RSS news feeds to the community information with the hopes that you will be able to learn more about the different communities within the Valley
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I am an avid user of Point2Agent software and am adding this new reale state blog (in addition to my active rain blog) to keep my clients apprised of the current real estate market in the Phoenix market.
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