Tucson Closed Transactions March 2009 Better Than 2008
Right now it looks like there will be more closed transaction in March of 2009 than there were in March of 2008. I wouldn’t have believed this was even attainable last Friday March 27th. At that time we didn’t have 700 closed transaction in the system.
My First Gift After Moving to Tucson
I just reached into my pocket, yes the pocket with the watch pocket inside and pulled out my chap stick. And when I put the cap back on I remembered something that happened when I moved to Tucson back in 1999.
Tucson MLS Statitics March 2008 Garbage In Garbage Out
It is call GIGO for short. Right now it is an issue with the Tucson MLS Statistics.
Tucson MLS January 2008 Closed Transactions Tracking
Over at the news blog Tucson Real Estate in The News I wrote a post about the January Closed Transactions and how the Tucson MLS is doing a great job of trying to get good data for the monthly Tucson MLS Statistics report.
So it is time for
Fun with Statistics
Tucson MLS Sold 7% Better Than Reported
Every month I notice there are more closed sales than are being reported in the Tucson MLS Statistical reports. There is a cut off date each month when they pull the data. Unfortunately there are some brokerages that don’t get their sales entered in a timely manner which then skews the data. On any individual month it might not be significant but added together it can paint a different picture of the actual state of the market.
Arizona Home Prices Drop First Time in 16 Years
Welcome back from the Labor Day Holiday. We hope everyone had a great weekend and will have a great first week in September. Tucson was greeted last week with this nice headline for all of us to read and enjoy as we headed out of town for cooler locations over the Labor Day Weekend. However, [...]
Tucson MLS Co-op Fee – Action Taken
It doesn’t appear they took much thought to the consequences at first glance anyway, but they certainly did take action. Here is the memo I found when I logged in this morning. No I don’t log in every day, I’m a lowly assistant so I didn’t see the impact of this move which to me [...]
Tucson Real Estate In the News
Tucson Real Estate in The News is our first blog. It was started to provide information about Tucson real estate, the Tucson real estate market and Tucson real estate trends. There is analysis on the Tucson MLS Statistics each month and links to newspaper articles in the local and national news that pertain to Tucson [...]
Tucson MLS Total Units Sold
Redacting History George Orwell in his book “1984″ portrayed a society with a department of government whose only function was to go back and change all publications to reflect the current political climate. Sometimes changes to numbers need to be made for purposes of correction. When corrections to data are made it is customary to [...]
Tucson MLS Statistics for February 2007
The Tucson MLS Statistics for February were released on March 15th. I’ve been wanting to write this update since then but sometimes the actual selling of real estate can get in the way of writing about real estate. Here is the summary breakdown and analysis from month to month. Tucson MLS Statistics Jan 07 – Feb 07 [...]
Tucson MLS Statistics for January 2007
The Tucson MLS Statistics for January 2007 were released Feb 28th. Yes, it took the whole month of February to get the figures. We all hope that the Feb. 2007 statistics will be out in a timely manner. Here is the summary breakdown and analysis of those figures. Tucson MLS Statistics Dec 06 – Jan 07 Summary [...]
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 [...]
