Archive for RE/MAX Excalibur Realty
Snapshot of Tucson Housing Market for April 2012
Here’s a quick snapshot of the housing activity for last month. The supply of homes for sale is shrinking and there is not enough inventory to keep up with the Buyer’s demands…. this is known as a Seller’s market which we have not seen since before the housing bust. Home prices rise in a Seller’s [...]
Do You Want to Become a Landlord?
Making the decision to buy rental property and becoming a landlord is very appealing in this market. With record low home prices and record low interest rates the purchase of rental property seems very appealing. However, If this is the first time you will be purchasing a rental property you must get over the hurdle [...]
It’s Spring and It’s The Best Time to Sell Your Home
It’s Spring and It’s The Best Time to Sell Your Home. The spring selling season is here and the market has finally turned in favor of sellers. Buyers are gearing up to find the perfect home. It’s well known in the real estate industry that, if you plan to sell a home, the spring season [...]
Tucson Contemporary Home For Sale “On Golf Course”
www.680BrightCayon.com MLS #21207371 680 W. Bright Canyon Oro Valley AZ 85755 For the buyer seeking privacy and golf course views with the Tortolita Mountain backdrop, Rancho Vistoso Community-Oro Valley, Arizona. Custom upgraded 4,214sq.ft., 4 BDRM, 3.5 bath home in gated Rancho Vistoso community, 8th Green, situated on15th fairway of Vistoso golf course. Enchanting & appealing [...]
Local RE/MAX Agents Don & Kathy Vallee Attend International Conference
Local RE/MAX Agents Attend International Convention Training Sessions, Networking Benefits Tucson Area Families Tucson, Arizona March 2012 Don & Kathy Vallee, agents of RE/MAX Excalibur Realty, attended the RE/MAX R4 Convention in Las Vegas last month, learning the latest real estate techniques and networking with other RE/MAX agents from around the world. The intensive training [...]
HAFA Program March Updates “Tucson Short Sale Help”
The Obama Administration just announced some major updates to the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternative Program, also know as H.A.F.A. The HAFA program is a government-sponsored initiative assisting all Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) eligible homeowners in avoiding foreclosure through short sales and died-in-lieus. The HAFA updates will allow more distressed homeowners to seek assistance with [...]
Home Affordability Has Reached a 20 Year High
Recently released data suggests that borrowers could be looking at once-in-a-lifetime deals, as rock-bottom prices and record-low interest rates continue to create perfect storm buying conditions. Numbers recently released by the National Association of Home Builders indicate that home affordability has hit a 20-year high. The release agrees with a recent Department of Housing and [...]
Tucson AZ News on Mortgage Revenue Bond or MRB
The Pima County Bond Program (also called the Mortgage Revenue Bond or MRB) has been around for years now. Funds are depleted from time to time but there are currently $25 million dollars available. This is a subsidised interest rate program for first time buyers and veterans. The interest rate offered is adjusted periodically to keep [...]
RE/MAX EXcalibur 2012 Sales Rally Alex Charfen “Market Is Shifting”
Alex Charfen founder of Institute Of Certified Distressed Property Institute, CDPE, commented that Arizona has less than a month and half months inventory. There are investment opportunities everywhere with 12 percent cap rate. In Arizona, major lenders consider number of short sales are going through the roof and foreclosures have plummeted. Two lenders confirm the [...]
RE/MAX SOLD MORE REAL ESTATE IN THE WORLD
RE/MAX SOLD MORE REAL ESTATE IN THE WORLD Dave Liniger founder of RE/MAX voted “Most Influential Leader” by Inman News at the New York “Real Estate Connect conference in 2012. RE/MAX Associates sold has SOLD more Real Estate than anyone in the World. According Dave Liniger “We have out produced our competition’. We are number [...]