Phoenix Metro Area Resale And New Homes

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 sales. $4,000,000. OAS_AD('ArticleFlex_1') Desert Light LLC, a Delaware ...

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 more than 35 percent of all existing-home transactions, the report said. Its author, Jay Butler, ...

The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 has extended the tax credit of up to $8,000 for qualified first-time home buyers purchasing a principal residence. The tax credit now applies to sales occurring on or after January 1, 2009 and on or before April 30, 2010. However, in cases where a binding sales contract is signed by ...

Maricopa was raised to $346,250. Pima County was raised from $271,050 back up to $316,250. Feel free to follow the link to HUD's website for all other counties in AZ. https://entp.hud.gov/idapp/html/hicost1.cfm  This is welcomed news if you are looking to put down as little as 3.5% and for your sellers in these higher ...

Many foreclosed homes are bought by investors who can pay cash, market watchers say. That means fewer homes are going to buyers who plan to live there and hang onto the house for a while. Owner-occupied homes ultimately help an area's recovery. The Valley's housing market is seeing the flipside of the investor cycle now. In 2004, investors ...

 FHA LOAN CHANGES In February, President Bush signed a bill that made a temporary increase to both conforming and FHA loan limits. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently released the new limits, which range from $271,050 to $729,750 depending on the county. Previously, they were capped at $362,790. With FHA ...

With the increase in foreclosures lately you may have heard the term “short sale” and wondered what it was. A short sale is when the lender will accept less than the full amount due on a mortgage when a property is sold. Usually, the lender will accept the short sale to avoid the time and expense of a foreclosure. When a borrower is ...

Bush administration officials on Friday said they had made a major change to existing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations for mortgages endorsed by the Federal Housing Administration, lifting a key anti-flipping provision that lenders and disposition firms have long said limits their ability to resell distressed real ...

 There's no guarantee that prices have hit bottom yet - but that doesn't mean that you can't get a great deal now. There's no telling how long the housing crisis will drag on. Here's what you need to know before you start shopping in a rocky market. Rule 1: You can't time the bottomFace it: The house you buy ...

During the housing boom, investors flocked to metro Phoenix and climbed onto buses that took them to the Valley's fringes, where they checked out affordable new homes they could buy low and sell high. Now, the bus tours to those edge suburbs are starting again. But this time, home buyers are looking for foreclosure properties they can flip ...