Tucson Real Estate Absorption Rates September 2008
September 2008 turned out to be the strongest September since 1996 for closed transactions. Some areas showed much improvement while a few lost a little ground. Much of Tucson is below a normal market inventory.
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Tucson To Be Announced
To Be Announced
That’s what they say when they don’t know what is going to happen. Sometimes it is because of a major computer failure and the system has lost its scheduled programming and events. To Be Announced is put in its place. Last week during the vice presidential debate I saw this on the menu [...]
Does Life Feel Like a Gamble
Two weeks ago when I was in Las Vegas for the REBlogworld conference someone asked me if I was doing any gambling while I was there. I laughed and said “I have a 401K I don’t need to gamble.” That was before last week.
What is the gamble of the day:
Will Sarah P be [...]
Tucson Real Estate Media Bad News
I’ve been out of town in Las Vegas for ReBlogworld and Blogworld conference. I got back late on Monday and turned on the radio to catch up on a little news. I was listening to 89.9 Arizona Public Radio when I heard something like this:
“The Tucson Real Estate Market continues to have more [...]
Technology and Traveling Today
I wrote yesterday I had arrived in Las Vegas for the Blogworld conference. I’ll be participating in the Great Debate this afternoon. I wanted to talk today before I head out about the way technology impacts my part of the business pertaining to Tucson Real Estate.
The Phone Thing
My two year contract on my [...]
Google Alerts “Tucson AZ” “Tucson Real Estate”
I wrote the other day about a trip to Boise, Idaho we are planning for October. One of the first things I did was set up a Google Alert.
Google Alerts
If you have never heard of a “Google Alert”, let me till you about them; they are pretty cool.
Google Alerts notify you by email on [...]
Tucson Median Home Prices Plunge in August 2008
This was the news in the paper today as the Tucson MLS Statistics report was released for August 2008. It is a rather dramatic down turn from July and the previous year. When some see the $185,000 they wonder if the Tucson real estate market is every going to turn around. In [...]
Tucson MLS Preliminary Residential Breakdown August 2008
The final stats will be pulled for the month of August, tomorrow September 5, 2008. There were delayed due to the Labor Day weekend. It could be a couple of weeks before we have the final numbers. At this moment there are 894 Residential Closed Transactions in the system for August.
This table shows a breakdown [...]
Downturn in Housing Market May Cause Cracks in Stucco
Front page of the Sunday edition of the “Arizona Daily Star” August 31, 2008 lead story was “Buyers, investors left in lurch as builder fails.
The builder in question is Michael F. Teufel, the company is/was Pathways Developments. The article states:
While Teufel blames the downturn in the housing market others blame him.”
As the article progresses it [...]
Tucson Real Estate Changes and Additions
Tucson Real Estate Theme Change
Since the beginning of this blog a year ago July we have had the same theme. The night scape of Tucson with the stars, clouds and moon in the background. I liked that theme and picture but recently I modified a theme for the Tucson Real Estate In The News blog [...]
Tucson Real Estate Absoption Rates July 2008
I’m going to chalk this up to the lazy crazy days of summer. I wrote more on this in yesterdays post on the Tucson MLS Statistics for July 2008.
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July
Sold
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June Listed\
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Sold
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Tucson Real Estate Photos
I want to see the floor, I want to see the ceiling
I am the lab rat for a recent experiment Barbara as been running. She sets buyers up with a “Client Portal” which will email them new listings which meet their search criteria. We get this criteria when they fill out a [...]
