by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 15, 2012
Field Guide to Buying vs. Renting (Updated May 2010) Is it better to Buy or Rent? Whether renting is better than buying depends on many factors. The information listed here will assist you in helping answer this question. Included are statistics and studies on...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 13, 2012
Courtesy of Art Thomason – Mar. 9, 2012 The Republic | azcentral.com Mesa officials treated 50 developers to breakfast, inventive videos, a bus tour and Cactus League game as part of a six-hour sales pitch about investment opportunities in downtown Mesa. The...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 13, 2012
Courtesy of Stephanie Snyder – Mar. 13, 2012 Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – There is a growing shortage of affordable housing in the country, and the situation is even more severe in Arizona, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. It...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 13, 2012
Courtesy of BY NICK TIMIRAOS | March 12, 2012 PHOENIX—As home prices continue to drop in most cities, a nascent real-estate rebound here holds lessons for the rest of the country. This sprawling desert metropolis was one of the hardest hit housing markets during the...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 13, 2012
Courtesy of Javier E. David, WSJ Optimism amongst small U.S. businesses rose to its highest level in more than four years in February, data released Tuesday showed, yet business owners remain concerned about future prospects. The National Federation of Independent...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 13, 2012
Courtesy of CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER – Mar. 13, 2012 AP Economics Writer Is this good news for Arizona? WASHINGTON – The unemployment rate fell in 45 U.S. states in January, a sign that nearly all of the country is benefiting from an improving economy...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 13, 2012
Courtesy of Mar. 13, 2012 USA Today More than five years after real estate prices began to tumble, Americans are finally starting to get property tax breaks on their devalued homes, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Cities, counties and school districts today collect 20%...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 13, 2012
Mar. 13, 2012 | courtesy of The Republic | azcentral.com Scottsdale’s median home price of $330,100 in January was down 7 percent from a year earlier, according to the latest monthly report from the Arizona State University Center for Real Estate Theory and...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 13, 2012
by Edythe Jensen – Mar. 13, 2012 10:00 AM Courtesy of The Republic | azcentral.com Central Chandler continues to have more distressed properties on the market than other parts of the Southeast Valley while Mesa and Chandler have the largest citywide numbers of...
by LRA Real Estate Group | Mar 11, 2012
Cash-up-front deals shut out competition for tight supplies Courtesy of Catherine Reagor – Mar. 10, 2012 The Republic | azcentral.com Many potential homebuyers who sat on the sidelines watching metro Phoenix’s house prices fall during the past five years...
