Phoenix Metro Area Resale And New Homes

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 ...

As long as foreclosures continue to climb, home prices will fall. More than 30,000 Valley homes have been foreclosed on so far this year. That compares to fewer than 1,500 foreclosures in 2006. Now, almost all of the homes are going back to the lenders, which are reselling them for bargain prices. "It's clear foreclosures are putting a ...

Metropolitan Phoenix now leads the nation for home price declines, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price index released this morning. The Valley’s existing home price fell 30.7 percent between August 2007 and August 2008. The Valley just beat out Las Vegas for the top spot for the biggest drop in home prices. The Nevada ...

For aspiring home owners who find their goal stubbornly elusive, newly enacted legislation providing a tax credit of as much as $7,500 for first-time home buyers might just be the opportunity of a lifetime. But like so many of the good things in life, time is of the essence for buyers who want to take advantage of this outstanding opportunity. ...

 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 ...

 Click Here To Search For Phoenix Metro Area Homes: www.AzRealtyPros.com With so many homes out there, buyers now have more time to ponder available homes. The average number of days on the market in February of this year was 96 days, according to the Arizona Multiple Listing Service. That's up from 54 days in February last ...

In November of 2007 there were 3,280 resale Phoenix  Az metro homes that were sold. Which was down from 3,610 in October. And November 2006 wasn't a good comparison, but there were 5,040 resales then. Phoenix AZ Real Estate home prices continued to go down. The median price of an existing metro Phoenix AZ ...

 Click Here To Search For Phoenix Metro Area Homes: www.AzRealtyPros.com Nation’s Building News, Week of December 10th - Bush Plan Aims at Helping to Stabilize Housing Market A plan announced last week by President Bush to limit foreclosures by working with key mortgage lenders and investment firms to freeze interest rates for five ...

Click Here To Search Homes in the Phoenix Metro Area: www.AzRealtyPros.com  The number of Valley homeowners losing their homes to foreclosure has shot up 566 percent so far this year, a result of the housing market's slowdown and rising interest rates on a variety of risky mortgages. Foreclosures just as hard on neighbors as ...