Prescott area real estate agent sharing tips and tricks for buying and selling properties

More good news for the Prescott, AZ market which relys so much on the Phoenix market for spillover business: a sign that foreclosure sales have peaked in the greater Phoenix area!  That's the news from the Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness at Arizona State University's Polytechnic ca...

The Precott Az area condo market finally got going again in March after having had ZERO closings in February, which was an anomoly. Two of the five closings were bank-owned, or REOs, and they were the driving factors behind the average $ per square foot at $118. Prescott Area Condos, Townhomes, P...

It seems to be a sign of the times... Thanks for sharing!Being a newer agent, I haven't experienced the oddities that come with real estate. That is until this past Saturday. My morning showings were going well enough, a few vacant properties that needed some TLC. We arrived at our last house, a ...

On April 1st, NAR released it latest figures on affordability and the index is at a record low.  This is great news for buyers of traditional resales and foreclosed homes in the Prescott and Prescott Valley market areas. Click on logo to go to the report NAR's Housing Affordability Index (HAI) ro...

It's getting old to say, BUT, the distressed real estate market in the Prescott area was busy on the listing AND closing sides this week. Identical to last week, eighteen new foreclosed or short sale homes came on the market, about one in every five homes being listed in the Prescott Arizona Area...

I've been posting for a couple of weeks about cash buyers are starting to make up the majority of my clients and how they feel it is time to buy.    They have been buying a mixture of foreclosures, estate sales, and traditonal resales (all at bargain prices) in downtown Prescott, Talking Rock cot...

 The first quarter of 2009 is thankfully over and we are seeing buyers starting to take advantage of the pricing in the real estate markets in Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, and Dewey-Humboldt.   Foreclosures and short sales have driven prices come down to levels seen before the "boom."...

These tips apply to AZ as well! Thanks for posting!Are you having trouble keeping up with your mortgage payments? Are you receiving notices from your lender asking them to contact them? One in eight Georgia mortgage holders were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure in the fourth quar...

Check out this very thorough article on AZ law and short sales! :) PSLenders don't make short sale approval easy.  After receiving government financial assistance funded by taxpayers and direct instructions to work with borrowers to avoid foreclosure, they still insist on playing hardball with ho...

Is anyone else skeptical of Chase Bank's newest efforts to do loan modifications for up to 400,000 of their customers?  Call me a stick in the mud, but I have a hard time believing that banks are doing this for their client's benefit.  To me it seems like they are doing this for their bottom line...