November 2006

I always enjoy reading deeply linked blogs. I think it adds credibility to a post (generally speaking) and I like being able to venture off to new places.

I’ve always tried to link where possible. And a few have commented positively about some deeply linked posts here, for which I am grateful.

But today, I found the Mother of Deeply Linked blog posts. Tino Buntic has a blog entry with 2,215 anchor text links in it. That’s Tino’s count, and I’ll take his word for it.

Not only does every word link to a blog or web site, so does every punctuation mark! Every period, comma, apostrophe, whatever. And get this… the links seem to actually make sense. This isn’t just random linkage. For example, the word “science” links to sciencefriday.com. The word “readers” links to a reading skills blog. “Grade” links to a teachers blog. You get the drift.

Apparently Tino has no life.

It’s actually quite a remarkable feat, one that Tino said took him 35 hours to put together. The only fault I could find was he didn’t include Phoenix’s best real estate blog, but I think we can forgive him for that.

Well done Tino! (And if you happen to read this, the post doesn’t display well in my Firefox browser. You have to scroll WAY down, past the sidebars to see the post. Looks fine in IE).

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Hat tip to Stefan Scholl for his AR post.

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Technorati Tags: Tino Buntic, crazy blogger man, deep links

Phoenix has about a half a bazillion golf courses. (OK, over 200. But that’s still a lot of golf courses.)

We get inquiries about golf course properties on a regular basis. At this moment, there are 1,810 homes listed for sale on golf course lots and 6,121 listed in “golf course subdivisions” in the Phoenix area MLS. (Note: sometimes the definition of “golf course subdivision” is stretched considerably…)

There are many things that make owning a home on a golf course or in a golf course subdivision special and unique. Many people won’t live anywhere else. Many have no desire to put up with beeping carts, screams of “FORE!” or having a Titleist shattering the kitchen window. (Having been on the launching end of a wayward window shattering drive, trust me, it happens.)

Below are a couple of a pretty good articles/lists of things to consider when you are pondering a life living on the links. They are a good place to start in your data gathering quest…

Things to Consider Before Purchasing Your Home on The Links — Has a Phoenix byline, but talks about courses with a $25 winter rate. Someone tell me where to find that please!

Tips for Buying Golf-Course Real Estate: The Inside Track — more focused on location, course designers and developers.

Our Phoenix Golf web page contains local golf news feeds, links to numerous courses and more.

Technorati Tags: golf, golf course homes, phoenix golf, wicked slice

Note: Data pulled directly from the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service (ARMLS) on Nov 26, 2006 10:21am

Data includes (unless noted): Single Family Homes (SFH), condos/townhomes, mobile/mfg homes and timeshares
Current active listings: 41,149 (47,069 on 9/9/2006)
Current “AWC” (Active With Contingencies) Listings: 804

November 2006 Closings to Date: 3,731

Single Family Homes ONLY:
Active Listings: 37,932 (39,451 of 9/9/2006)
Nov Closings to Date: 3,093

LAND ONLY DATA:
Active Listings: 10,930
AWC Listings: 30
Nov 2006 Closings to Date: 160

Coverage: ARMLS covers all of Maricopa County and part of Pinal County. In addition, there are “out of area” listings included. For those not familiar with the Phoenix area, some of the ARMLS coverage is quite far from Phoenix and could hardly be considered “Phoenix Area”. But for the sake of time and consistency, I include all of the ARMLS coverage area in the above stats. If anyone would like current ARMLS data for a specific area of Phoenix, drop a comment and I’ll see what I can do.

Technorati Tags: Phoenix real estate, listing data, sales data, MLS

“Keith” and the Housing Panic minions vs. Greg Swann at BloodHound blog?

I’ll take Greg in Round 1 by a knockout.

Keith “suggesting” that Greg pull a post by the weekend?!? Uh yeah, that’ll happen…

Technorati Tags: bubble, housing panic, immature bloggers