Tucson Home Selling

Wings of Freedom Tour in Tucson

P-51 Mustang

The Wings of Freedom Tour Flew into the Marana Regional Airport yesterday afternoon. There is a B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator along with the P-51 Mustang.


Things are Spread Out in Tucson

It is a long way from one end of town to the other

This past week I drove over 500 miles. Most of the time it was just over 100 miles a day doing routine things here in Tucson. I’ll admit our routine is more mile intensive than most people that live here in Tucson. Working in real estate mean you put a lot of mile on a car in a year.


Tucson Butterfly Festival

common checkered-skipper

Yes, you heard it here, there is a butterfly festival in Tucson and it doesn’t mean we all get together and share our favorite recipes for butterflies, or have butterfly tastings.
Did you know there are over 250 species of butterflies in the Sonoran Desert?
On September 29th and 30th is the Tucson Butterfly Festival. [...]


Tucson Testing the Sand

feet in sand

I know it is usually called testing the waters. Here in Tucson there is talk all the time about conserving water so I called this practice testing the sand.
It is hot enough in Tucson in the summer that you don’t really want to test the sand with your bare feet or our house in the [...]


Tucson Home Sellers The Big Gamble

Rolling the dice

Rolling the Dice 
Rolling the dice is only fun in games of chance when you don’t care if you win or lose.  Rolling the dice in real life can be very risky especially when you decided to roll the dice and take a chance with what is probably the largest investment you have.
It is amazing how [...]


Tucson Real Estate Establishing Asking Price

submarine

Tucson Homes Canoes and Submarines
The Tucson Real Estate Market has seen some huge turns in the past two years. It had a huge run up in 05 continued into the third quarter of 06 and then headed in a steady downward direction for asking price.
The sales prices continued to climb at a fairly steady [...]


What Your Decor Might be Saying To Buyers

Interior home images

We see a lot of homes in the course of a week.
When we are in those homes, what we see there often tells us a lot about the people that live there.
We were in a home this weekend that was so nicely decorated I just took photos .
I could tell they like:

roosters,
birds,
flowers,
fresh fruit,
red.

The place was [...]


2007 Tucson Real Estate Sell or Not to Sell

Tucson home

This question just came in from a Google search. It is a good question and as most things there is no one single answer.
Location, Season & Price determine almost everything about selling or buying Tucson real estate.
I’ll say it again Location coupled with Season and Priced for the local market are the determining factors.
Tucson Seasons [...]


Tucson Active Adult – Snowbird Season

panzies

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 Northwest Explorer on Buyers Market

buyers market image

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 Housing Market Slows in 2006

The train was speeding along at 100 mi. per hour then it slowed to 50 mi. per hour. 
a. did the train stop
b. did the train crash
c. did the train slow down
d. did the train continue to move forward
Pick the two answers matching what the train did.
Amid U.S. realty cool-down, Ariz. is ’warm’
 From the At Home Section [...]


Tucson MLS Statistics for November 2006

The numbers for November 2006 are in from the Tucson Assoication of Realtors. Here is a summary breakdown of the number for the Tucson Housing Market November 2006.

Average Sale Price

November 2005 $265,947
November 2006 $267,493 0.58% up from last year
Oct. 2006 $266,854 up $639 over last month

Median Sale Price

November 2005 $226,000
November 2006 $218,000 3.54% down from last year
Oct. [...]