Phoenix Asbestos Inspection Important for Healthy Home If you live in Phoenix and are a potential home-buyer or are remodeling a home built prior to 1980, you may be at risk for asbestos exposure. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry...

It’s a new year, 2009.  I truly believe that all of us have it good in this time in this place.  We all go through our own individual lives with the good and the bad but, as a society, as as beings we have never had it so good.  A hundred years ago the...

The market is in flux.  One thing we know is that as a whole the economy and real estate in particular is on the declining end of the cycle: though, if you delve into the details some segments are probably on the bottom while others are in over...

With the readjustment of home prices to more affordable levels and steady rental rates real estate investing is making more sense as an investments rather then speculation. Real estate IS a good investment when made prudently.  It is a good investment...

The NAR reports: With the exception of cash transactions, investment activity in commercial real estate sectors is nearly at a standstill because commercial lending has essentially halted, while job losses are curtailing the demand for space, according...

Sales of small multifamily properties are on the rise especially over last year.  23 sales may not seem like much but it’s 65% higher then last year.  Still the prices are down significantly.  This is mostly due to the abundance of foreclosed and...

Commercial Property News reports, in an article titled Investors Lured to Apartment Buildings, that, "…over the long term, apartments could become an appealing investment as new apartment development becomes scarcer." In recent weeks the commercial...

We recently leased a condo for a client in Scottsdale.  The last tenants had to be evicted (not tenants we brought) but guess what they did?  The property was clean, very clean when they moved out but once the new tenant moved in one room had no...

There are about 80 multifamily properties on the ARMLS but more in on the open market where the owner is willing to carry the not: these range from a $30,000 fix up to a larger $16,000,000 property and anything in-between. In the current market where...

A short sale is the term used when you sell your home but actually receive less for it than what you owe to your mortgage company. It is also called a pre-foreclosure sale, because this is generally the only time that this kind of sale is conducted or...