Tag Archives: foreclosures
Stephen Brooks

Buy homes in Glendale Arizona with 1% down with the Lending Tree

 Homes for sale in Glendale If your looking to purchase homes in Glendale Arizona. Better yet any home here in the valley of the sun. The Lending Tree has a loan which gives you 2.5% to help with your purchase if you qualify. This is on an FHA  loan, so that means you’ll just need [...] Read more

Darlene Brooks

What Should I Offer?

  I hear this all the time “what should I offer”, I tell my buyers to offer their highest and best offer if they want to buy a house.  Recently I had a client that saw a house and it had all the things in a new home they wanted and need.  I advised my client [...] Read more

Elizabeth Hickey

Where are foreclosures highest?

One of my favorite sources for solid information on the Arizona real estate market, The Cromford Report, had an interesting article on where foreclosures are most prominent.    These numbers can have impacts on values (obviously), but also on the neighborhoods in which they occur (including the HOA; if you’re buying or selling, we need to [...] Read more

Elizabeth Hickey

Phoenix Real Estate Prices Dropping

The Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service Inc. released its Pending Price Index, which uses the pending prices of homes under contract in the system to forecast average and median sales prices for the upcoming four months. The conclusion is that the Phoenix real estate market still may not have hit bottom. “Casting about in MLS [...] Read more

Elizabeth Hickey

Loan Modification and Credit Score

In my experience, homeowners will initially try for a loan modification before they begin thinking about a Short Sale.  Understandable-we didn’t buy our houses to feel forced to sell, so if we can renegotiate our loan, then it makes sense to do it.  There are a few things we should know before taking the plunge [...] Read more

Elizabeth Hickey

Market Trend Report for September

It’s that time again-how did the numbers look in September and what kind of trends are we seeing continue or change?  That’s a loaded question right now, with new information from banks on how they’re handling foreclosures and what that will mean for the market over the next several months.  But let’s look at September [...] Read more

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