You have Scottsdale Real Estate questions. We have answers. Q: Is now a good time to buy a house in Scottsdale? A: Forgive me for answering a question with a question. Do you need a house? The best time to buy a house is when you need one. Conditions are advantageous for buyers who can…
Times were a buyer could reasonably anticipate that a seller would provide a one year home warranty policy with the sale of a home. Given the equity crunch that many are experiencing, and the prevalence of short sales and bank owned homes in the current market (which typically do not provide such policies), home warranties…
That is the G rated version. The working title was initially more along the lines of: “What the &^%$ Do You Mean the &^%$#&^ House Is Under &^%$^&# Contract? The &^%$#$@ Listing Says It Is &^%^&#%$ Active!” There is little more frustrating to the do-it-yourself consumer than outdated data. It’s hard enough to navigate unfamiliar…
If you were to stand in the center of Scottsdale and spit in any direction, chances are good that you’d hit a home with negative equity. Thus if you’ve been shopping for a home, chances are equally good that you have come across a short sale listing or fifty along the way. If you are…
Is that Scottsdale home really for sale? It sure looks like it is. There’s a sign in the yard, property information on the internet, an asking price and everything. The comings and goings of Real Estatey type people with wide eyed gawkers in tow confirms that the quaint Spanish hacienda is looking for a new…
A disconnect that will sometimes occur when a Scottsdale Real Estate consumer lands here on the Scottsdale Property Shop site, not all of the properties you see listed for sale here fly under the banner of Realty Executives. Matter of fact, of the forty some thousand home listings that you can trawl in our home…
The current Scottsdale Real Estate market does not favor buyers. I repeat, the current Scottsdale Real Estate market does not favor buyers. Allow me to explain. For months, if not years, you have been told that the glut of housing inventory here in the greater Phoenix area makes for a buyer’s market of epic proportions….
So you have 20% to put down for a single family home in Scottsdale AZ. Your FICO scores are higher than Willie Nelson on Bob Marley Day in Montego Bay. You have been gainfully employed in the same W2 position with the same company for years. The American Express card with a $124 balance and…
“What’s the deal with this house? Why so cheap?” I field some derivation of this inquiry on a fairly routine basis from buyer clients. Typically, they have stumbled across a property listing online, or possibly in the ARMLS portal I have set up for them (provides for user log in and review of all homes…
Despite an uneasy economy at large, Scottsdale, Arizona maintains its stranglehold on a coveted relocation address. Official population counts from the end of 2009 put our grown-up resort town at 230,000+ residents and climbing (projections of nearly 250,000 total residents by 2014). For those of you keeping score back in Delaware, that’s a 10% increase…
