Jay’s Opine: The article below is from ASU’s Arizona Real Estate Center. These guys know their stuff and report some great stats on the Arizona and Phoenix area markets.

The astute reader of this blog may note that the sales numbers they quote here don’t exactly match up with the ones I post in the [...]

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Joel Burslem posted an interesting story in his real estate marketing blog about real estate logos. I have to agree with him. I work in a Century 21 office and I don’t like their logo at all.
One of the most interesting things in this blog entry though was about the subliminal message in the [...]

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Found a really cool blog editing tool. If you use Firefox (and if this works) you MUST get the Perfomancing extension!
OK, it works!  This thing is AMAZING. Get it here: http://performancing.com/firefox

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U.S. home-price growth slows in first quarter
Higher mortgage rates cut into appreciation
Monday, June 05, 2006
Inman News
Freddie Mac today announced that its Conventional Mortgage Home Price Index increased by 8.7 percent on an annualized basis in the first quarter of 2006, down from a revised fourth-quarter-2005 rate of 12.9 percent and a third-quarter-2005 growth rate of [...]

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Earnest Money – whenever we’re writing up an offer for a buyer, invariably the one thing that generates the most questions is earnest money. What is it, why do I need it, how much, will I lose it – these questions almost always require a lot of discussion and education.
What is earnest money and why [...]

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