The Real Estate Blog Carnival rolled into Arizona this weekend and boy did we have a lot of fun. In fact with Valentines day coming up love is in the air.  It is no surprise that this weeks’ blog carnival is heavily influenced by cupid. With over thirty submissions this week my weekend was certainly [...]

Interesting insights in a report on the MarketingCharts website:
More than one-quarter (27%) of American homeowners say that the current economic environment is causing them to put their plans to buy a new or existing home on hold, according to (pdf) a new Ipsos Public Affairs poll conducted on behalf of Realogy.
Among those who are most [...]

photo credit: Ahmed Rabea
Interesting results from a recent survey from Zillow:
Zillow.com said Wednesday that a majority of homeowners believe their house is insulated from the housing crisis, which has seen 77 percent of the nation’s homes fall in value during the second quarter.
The online real estate company’s second quarter homeowner confidence survey found that [...]

Bottom is nowhere in sight. So says this expert:

Read WSJ story related to this video.

I look through the visitor statistics from time to time to get an idea for what people seem to like on this blog. However, that’s kind of a limited way of getting an understanding of what the audience is looking for, because my audience can only read what I write. I don’t know if I’m [...]

Many thanks to all the Windemere agents who attended the Blogging 101 class yesterday (on Thunderbird and 101). I sure enjoyed teaching the class. I owe this opportunity to Chris Mattix, my newest Facebook friend! So, thank you Chris for having me.
As promised here is a link to the Powerpoint presentation [...]

A few weeks ago it was widely reported that a Congresswoman from California was having mortgage trouble. Today we find out that Ed McMahon is talking about foreclosing on his house. This from Yahoo! News:
Ed McMahon talks about possible home foreclosure
Ed McMahon on home foreclosure: `If you spend more money than you make, you know [...]

The East Vally Tribune reports that existing home sales increased compared to last year. According to the morning news, this is the first time since 2005 that the year over year (YOY) sales numbers have been positive. For Gilbert, there were 360 sales in April of 2008 compared to 330 in the same month last [...]

Warning: it’s kind of cheesy, but it’s different and novel. That’s what I like about it. It was featured on Fox News last night!

A few weeks ago I started a weekly series on the mortgage market attempting to cover important elements from news items to blog posts. Regular readers know I slacked off on this promise after week one. However, I must say I did have good intentions. Inertia is the main issue here and converting [...]