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01/26/08
If You Buy Now, Will You Lose Money?
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:35 pm

It takes a bit of courage to buy a home in a weak real estate market.  More…

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Valley residents will put up fans - for a price
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:29 pm

Valley hotel rooms are still available, but many locals are jockeying for the attention of Giants and Patriots fans who are looking for a place to stay.  More…

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Housing sales slow at tony development
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:27 pm

Scottsdale’s last major planned community is continuing to build and sell new homes, although the pace is slower than what might have been expected a few years ago.  More…

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Scottsdale to pay home builder $81 mil
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:21 pm

A jury decided Friday that Scottsdale will have to pay luxury-home builder Toll Brothers $81.9 million for land the city seized for the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.  More…

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Land auction stalled by protest set for March 19
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:19 pm

A state land auction that has been held up twice by a developer’s protests has been rescheduled once again.  More…

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Proposed mortgage plan could aid markets
Filed under: General, Business, Real Estate, Mortgages
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:10 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — A component of the government’s tentative economic stimulus package announced Thursday would give an immediate lift to buyers and sellers in higher-priced housing markets.  More…

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Web listings, virtual property gain fame
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 12:59 pm

Rich Barton, CEO of Zillow.com, was lying on a table with needles in his back a few weeks ago, talking to an acupuncturist who mentioned he’d sold his home through Zillow.com.  More…

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Battle goes on for Paradise Ridge parcel
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 12:57 pm

Developers continue to battle over a piece of prime land in northeast Phoenix that one day could be an epicenter of luxury shopping in ArizonaMore…

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Fed hopes bold cut eases global fears
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 12:55 pm

The Federal Reserve handed Wall Street a Valium on Tuesday, in the form of one of the largest interest-rate cuts in recent memory.  More…

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Europe Starts to Feel Pinch as U.S. Slowdown Spreads
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 12:52 pm

The European economy may be starting to suffer collateral damage from the U.S. subprime mortgage slump.  More…

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Land-auction plans in limbo
Filed under: General
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 12:37 pm

A second protest from an affiliate of the Thomas J. Klutznick Co. again has derailed a planned auction of commercial land in the northeast Phoenix area known as Paradise Ridge, even though the protest was denied.  More…

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01/20/08
Valley has wealth of luxury homes
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 2:45 pm

Metropolitan Phoenix, long known for its affordable new houses on the fringes, has become a magnet for affluent home buyers.  More…

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Oral arguments next in CityNorth challenge
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 2:38 pm

NORTHEAST VALLEY - Oral arguments are scheduled for next month in a lawsuit challenging Phoenix’s $100 million deal with the developers of CityNorth, the huge new mixed-use development east of Desert Ridge Marketplace.  More…

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Falls at Desert Ridge plan tweaked to buffer nearby homes
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 2:36 pm

NORTHEAST VALLEY - A planned development west of Desert Ridge Marketplace will have to make adjustments to buffer an adjacent 265-home neighborhood that is not part of the master-planned area.  More…

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Big banks’ profits decline as loan delinquencies rise
Filed under: General, Business, Real Estate, Mortgages
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 2:34 pm

NEW YORK - The bill for America’s excessive borrowing during the housing boom has arrived, and more people are having trouble paying it.  More…

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Re/Max 2000 offices re-open
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 2:32 pm

Former Re/Max 2000 offices in Scottsdale and Fountain Hills that closed in December are re-opening as new Re/Max franchises under the people who ran them before Re/Max 2000 bought them.   More…

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Townhomes to go all-solar
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:59 pm

Catalyst Communities founder Chad Gifford is gambling. He’s willing to bet there are 36 home buyers in central Phoenix that are so frugal with their electricity that he’ll pay their utility bills if they buy his solar-powered town houses.  More…

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Pinal owners fear loss of property rights
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:57 pm

Mark Pace is worried about his retirement fund, which doesn’t sit in a 401(l) or an individual retirement account, but in a piece of Pinal County desert near Coolidge.   More…

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Green offices planned in Tolleson
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:55 pm

Mayor Adolfo Gamez and the City Council believe a development planned for Tolleson could become a green showpiece for the community.  More…

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Tempe firm locks into ID-theft protection sector
Filed under: General, Business
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 1:48 pm

Todd Davis, CEO of LifeLock Inc., created a stir among some consumer advocacy groups last year when he placed his entire Social Security number on advertising for the Tempe-based firm.  More…

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