Archive for January, 2007
Tucson Active Adult – Snowbird Season
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Tucson Seasons of Real Estate. One of those season is now upon us.
The Tucson Active Adult – Snowbird Season is now upon us. The indicators for the start of this season have changed a little this year. It is a positive change and I’ll get to that in [...]
Tucson Accenture Match Play Championship
UPDATE: Accenture Match Play 2009 Information
The WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship is one of four World Golf Championship events that is organized and sanctioned by the International Federation of PGA TOURS, and is the only tournament of the four that features a single-elimination match-play format.
Eligibility is limited to the top-64 players on the [...]
Tucson Snow
This is the view from the front of the Target store in Oro Valley. There is something majestic about the mountains that surround Tucson.
There was over 2 inches of snow on the ground in some parts of Tucson this morning. Here in Oro Valley there was plenty of the white stuff in the Mountains and [...]
Tucson MLS Statistics for December 2006
The Tucson MLS Statitstics for December 2006 were released Jan 17th. Here is the summary breakdown and analysis of those figures.
Tucson MLS Statistics Nov 06 – Dec 06 Summary
Category
Nov 2006
Dec 2006
Diff.
Avg. Sale Price
$267,493
$261,348
- $6,145
Median Sale Price
$218,000
$215,000
- $3,000
Avg. Days on Market
60
64
+ 4
Pending Contracts
891
678
- 213
Active Listings
9238
8518
- 720
Avg.Sale Price NC
$280,482
$326,804
+ $46,322
Typically in Tucson we see a [...]
Tucson Average Days on Market December 2006 – 64
The average days on Market in Tucson for December 2006 was 64.
If all you do is read this one number you might think you have the answer. But this is only the answer to one question. You cannot base your expectations for the sale of your home in Tucson based on this number of days.
Here [...]
Tucson Senior Olympic Festival
The Tucson Senior Games will be held January 20 – 28th. Hundreds of seniors from around the region will compete in dozens of athletic events with winners and qualifiers advancing to the National Senior Olympics later in 2007. The Tucson Senior Games website contains a lot of information on this festival held here annually.
My dad [...]
Tucson Housing Market and the Phantom Rebound
I was reading Chris Smith’s blog Real Estate Investing in the Real World. Chris had a post “Cancellations to hit new home sales?” I like the question mark at the end.
Chris had a link to the Sunday January 7, 2007 New York Times article “A Phantom Rebound of the Housing Market“.
If you didn’t stop and read the [...]
Searching Web 2.0 Style blogsearch google – technorati
Two months ago I had never heard the phrase “Web 2.0″ now I see it everywhere, if you aren’t familiar with it I’m sure you will be before long. I’m just learning about all this. I’ve always told people that even if you just learned something 5 minutes ago to someone that doesn’t know anything about the [...]
Tucson Northwest Explorer on Buyers Market
When we got back from our trip to Walt Disney World in Florida I had a whole stack of newspapers waiting for me to thumb through for articles on Tucson Real Estate. One of the weekly papers dropped in our driveway The ”Northwest Explorer” had a good article on the Buyer’s Market in Tucson. The cover picture [...]
Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
If you like gems and minerals this is the time of year to visit Tucson.
One of the biggest annual events in Tucson each year is the Gem and Mineral show. It isn’t just a show, it is an event. It is unlike any other event I’ve ever seen. It takes part all across the city from [...]
Can You Guess Where We Are?
I think you can tell from this we aren’t in Tucson anymore Toto. It has taken us a couple of days to get internet connectivity but we are set now. We will be posting this week but on a more limited basis. We flew out on New Year’s Eve morning, had dinner at The Brown [...]
