Archive for July, 2009
Lenders Don’t Seem to Have A Clue on Short Sales
Dealing in a timely manner with a property in short sale should be bank priority, instead even after a year they don’t seem to have a clue how to handle the process. Instead, they wait for the process to turn into an REO which they seem to know how to deal with and in so doing take an lose on average here in Tucson of over $43,000 per property.
They should call them Long Sale
It is the oxymoron of real estate these days. Short sales are not short. They was LOOOOOONG sales
Tucson REO Homes for Sale
Want a quick way to see what is New in Tucson for REO properties for sale? You don’t have to pay for a list. Just scroll down to the bottom of the right hand navigation. There you will see a header “New on Market REO”
Nervous Buyers and a Market Recovering
What odd times we are in right now. But it does appear things are changing again. Some for the better, some . . . well we shall see. There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle of purchasing a home.
Salt water and Conventional Pools
Summer is here and the temps are in triple digits. Now it is that time of year when the people with a pool spend a lot of time in it and around it. There are typically two types of pools. Conventional and Salt water.
Rose Canyon Lake Mt. Lemmon
There are only a few places you can fish in and around Tucson. This is Rose Canyon Lake. Located at 7000 feet on the way up to Mt. Lemmon. It is a 7 acre lake
Inflated Foreclosure Statistics Leading to Housing Shortage?
The end result, there could well be a housing shortage during the fourth quarter of 2009.
The Tucson MLS Mandatory Short Sale Field
This is a good move in the part of the Tucson MLS. We all need to know what the numbers are instead of the guessing game and over inflated guesstimates we keep getting from the media.
Tucson Crime Map
The Tucson Crime Map is provided by the Arizona Daily Star . Using this map you can see what types of crimes are being committed in Tucson and where they are taking place. You can go back to Yesterday, a week, a couple of weeks, a month, it is up to you.
Tucson Short Sales and REO Average Sale Price
Is it in the banks interest to put more effort into dealing with Short Sale offers quickly? Absolutely! The proof is in the numbers. You would think if any corporation would know about “numbers” it would be a BANK. But apparently not.
A Verdant Tucson
We are in the heart of the Monsoon Season. We can tell from the humidity rising, the evaporative coolers not cooling (as well) and the verdant mountains. I mentioned last night at a patio dinner during one of these storms I was writing about verdant Tucson and the table broke out in laughter. The only response was “Well that’s certainly an oxymoron.
A Trend in Garage Doors
Many people don’t like the modern architecture of residential homes. This part of the century will be remember as the time when the garage doors were the front of the house.
