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Real Estate Market Update – August 2010

For those of us that survived July’s real estate market, we need to know how August treated us.  August showed a 7% increase in number of sales (7525 vs. 7021).  But what’s happening to prices…?  They did continue their decline.  Mike Orr wrote a couple of nice articles on prices in August.   Check them out…

Phoenix Real Estate Market Review – July 2010

(click here if video does not display) Well I guess I’ll start with the trite phrase – I have good news and bad news regarding the greater Phoenix real estate market last month. Where do we start? With the good news obviously. We closed over 7,000 transactions last month, which is well above the monthly…

Phoenix Real Estate Market Review – June 2010

Jim Sexton's Market Review

Wow a last minute reprieve regarding the tax credit! What’s that mean? We’ll have fewer cancelations of the 17,000 properties currently in escrow. With all the discussion regarding an extension for the last couple of weeks, it appears that not all the lenders, sellers and buyers believed that it was necessary to close by 6/30….

Greater Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Market Report – May 2010

Jim Sexton's Market Review

There’s a lot being written about the Phoenix Real Estate market as analysts and practitioners try to describe or predict what’s happening. In my opinion, the market is sputtering on the price front but continues a brisk pace on a volume basis. To me any month with greater than 9000 closings is an outstanding month….

Greater Phoenix Short Sale Market Report

Short Sale Help

For last week’s short sale seminar Old Republic Title commissioned Michael Orr to create a special report explaining the state of the short sale market in greater Phoenix.  The report has been posted to Old Republic’s NewLeading EdgeUcation.com website.  Here’s a direct link to the 10 page pdf. Have a safe Memorial Day weekend.

Phoenix Home Sales Statistics – April 2010

Jim Sexton's Market Review

April’s numbers are telling us something. I guess it’s up to us to figure out what. I’ll need a couple of articles for April’s review. First the numbers-9200 closings!!! Wow, 4th month in a row of increases both Month over Month and same Month-year over year (y over y). Actually we have had same Month-y…

Phoenix’s Bank Owned Home Numbers

Tom Ruff of the Information Market posted March’s foreclosure numbers recently, which caught my eye regarding the REO market in Maricopa County. Let me explain. March had 8045 Notices posted which was a 6% increase over February. While that may sound like bad news remember March had 3 more ‘business’ days and the 2010 numbers…

Greater Phoenix: March Real Estate Review

Jim Sexton's Market Review 2010

Initial numbers are in for March. Yes March madness continues. Number of Closed Escrows for March is 8846, that’s a 16% increase over 3/09 and a 34% increase over 2/10. 2010′s YTD Closed figures show a 19% increase over 2009′s 1st Quarter numbers. REO sales numbers are continuing to decline as a percentage of sales-39%…