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        <Name>Phoenix Real Estate Median Home Prices</Name>
        <Summary>August 2007 compared 2006 Home Prices in the Phoenix cities</Summary>
        <Description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Trebuchet MS"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Trebuchet MS"&gt;Single Family Home median prices in Greater Phoenix for August 2007&amp;nbsp; compared to August 2006 and percent changes.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;table width="250" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width: 188pt; border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col width="69" style="width: 52pt;" /&gt;&lt;col width="64" style="width: 48pt;" /&gt;&lt;col width="69" style="width: 52pt;" /&gt;&lt;col width="48" style="width: 36pt;" /&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr height="18" style="height: 14.1pt;"&gt;&lt;td width="69" height="18" style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; width: 52pt; height: 14.1pt; background-color: transparent;" class="xl65"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="64" style="border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(255, 255, 255); border-width: 0.5pt 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; width: 48pt; background-color: transparent;" class="xl74"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Median Sale Price&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="69" style="border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext; border-width: 0.5pt 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; width: 52pt; background-color: transparent;" class="xl66"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Median Sale Price&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="48" style="border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext; border-width: 0.5pt 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; width: 36pt; background-color: transparent;" class="xl79"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;% Change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr height="18" style="height: 14.1pt;"&gt;&lt;td height="18" style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: windowtext; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt; height: 14.1pt; background-color: white;" class="xl67"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(255, 255, 255); border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; background-color: white;" class="xl83"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aug. '06&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: windowtext; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; background-color: white;" class="xl84"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aug. '07&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: windowtext; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; background-color: white;" class="xl80"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr height="18" style="height: 14.1pt;"&gt;&lt;td height="18" style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) windowtext windowtext; border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt; height: 14.1pt; background-color: rgb(238, 236, 225);" class="xl68"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Garamond" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VALLEY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) windowtext windowtext rgb(255, 255, 255); border-width: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium; background-color: rgb(238, 236, 225);" class="xl75"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;$&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;262,500 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border-style: none solid solid none; 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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm&amp;nbsp;going to&amp;nbsp;face the music and admit that the real estate market stinks.&amp;nbsp; It is precisely because it stinks that for those that can take the pressure of buying in a downmarket (which most of us can't take)&amp;nbsp;will reap the benefits of buying low.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inventories keep hitting new highs, access to loans is bad and &lt;strong&gt;many sellers can't come to grips with the realities&lt;/strong&gt;, though many are coming around to it.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The median home price in Phoenix Metro decreased by 3% while Phoenix decreased by 1.8%.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;All cities in the Phoenix valley experienced decreases.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; The hardest hit are cities in the outlying areas where resale home still have to compete with&lt;font face="Trebuchet MS"&gt; new home builders.&amp;nbsp; El Mirage, Surprise, Avondale, Chandler all had big changes downward in median price.&amp;nbsp; Even some of the inner cities like Tempe (-10%) and Scottsdale (-6.5%) had large decreases, though South Scottsdale drew down the total Scottsdale median price, North Scottsdale had a slight 2% increase.&amp;nbsp; 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