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

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Tucson was greeted last week with this nice headline for all of us to read and [...]


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 [...]