The federal tax credit helped new home sales across metropolitan Phoenix increase enough in April to beat last year's pace. There were 823 new home sales in metro Phoenix last month, reports the Phoenix Housing Market Letter. That compares to 789...

Many new homebuyers make the mistake of rushing out to buy things to fill their home with as soon as the seller accepts their purchase offer and the lender pre-approves their loan. But there are still a few major hurdles to overcome before the keys are...

The president of a scrapbook die-cutting company in Phoenix, two doctors, the founder of an information-technology company in Boise, Idaho, and the family of the former Schlitz Brewing Co. are among the buyers and sellers in this week's priciest home...

Here are the latest Maricopa County statistics through April 2010. Properties that are in Notice of Default have dropped to 51,000 units. This would be the "Shadow Inventory" that we have heard everyone talking about. Notices of Default were...

Lenders in 2009 foreclosed on about 41,000 single-family detached homes in Maricopa County , according to a report from Arizona State University. That's more foreclosures than the Valley has seen during any previous year on record, accounting for...