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Things to Do in Flagstaff This Weekend
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, see the latest production of the Theatrikos Theatre Company – The 39 Steps, Broadway’s longest running comedy – at the Doris Harper-White Playhouse. A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a...
New-home sales hit three-month low in June
New-home sales in June were down 11.5% from a year earlier. Note, that monthly new home sales numbers are very unreliable, and often revised in following months. But this report does seems to confirm the more reliable info we've had lately from other sources that home...
Existing Home Sales Break 5 Million (again)
Today, the National Association of Realtors® announced that total existing home sales in a month broke the 5 million mark in June for the first time since last October. But June 2014 sales were still 2.3 percent below the pace set in June 2013. Lawrence Yun, NAR...
Real Estate News Coming Up This Week
The National Association of Realtors® will release home sales data for June on Tuesday. If sales volume in June broke 5 million homes, that's a good sign the market is heading in the right direction. If not, we're in for a sluggish rest of the year. The U.S. Census...
Home Maintenance – Focus on Moisture
An out-of-shape house is older than its years and could lose 10% of its appraised value, says Mack Strickland, an appraiser and real estate agent in Chester, Va. But good maintenance can even add value. A study out of the University of Connecticut and Syracuse...
Great New Listings in Flagstaff This Weekend
When you are ready to buy a Flagstaff home, you'll want to tailor your search to your specifications (and we can help with that). We know you'd like to catch some new developments in Flagstaff home listings, so here is this week's inside scoop: First floor master...
Things To Do in Flagstaff This Weekend
It’s Flagstaff’s big weekend for celebrating all things Celtic. The Arizona Highland Celtic Festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday at Foxglenn Park. Hear bagpipe bands and competitions, watch or take part in athletic competitions, enjoy the food, history,...
New Carpet Will Be Installed Throughout on July 23 – Get in Now!
Update, July 24: Two home buyers heeded the advice in this headline and I spent my Monday negotiating competing offers. One happy buyer and my client, the seller, are now in contract and moving forward to a quick sale at the end of August. Here's the original post:...
Fed minutes outline the different reasons housing has been sluggish
Home sales are not pulling the economy up as in past recoveries. That may be the only clear thing from the Federal Reserve's internal discussions about the housing segment of the economy at its June meeting. (Minutes were released in the last 7 days.) Mortgage...
Things to Do in Flagstaff This Weekend
This weekend, the Arboretum at Flagstaff holds its annual Summer Plant Sale and Penstemon Festival. Horticulturists at The Arboretum, Flagstaff Native Plant and Seed, and Warner's Nursery are propagating herbaceous perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees that are...