I have been tagged!
Is it that time again? You know, Meme time! Luckily, I was browsing through my Google Reader and realized that my friend Shailesh, the Arizona Mortgage Guru, tagged me. Of course one foreigner had to pick on another foreigner, so this is a first for me.
I have never done one of these [...]

Interpreting the Phoenix Market with Altos Research Charts:
I finally got around to making Altos Charts available for most of the Zip Codes in the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area on my blog.
John L. Wake covered the zip-code-changes in the valley in detail on his blog, Arizona Real Estate Note Book, and he even created Google [...]

PF Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon 2008:
The Valley of the Sun is a great place for outdoor activities and sporting events all year round. This coming weekend, Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe are jointly hosting the P.F. Chang Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.
This fun event (and I freely admit that I prefer being a spectator) is not [...]

Happy New Year 2008!
Hello Friends!
Welcome to this New Year! For many of us, the beginning of a new year is a time for resolutions. So, why is a New Year such an emotional trigger that causes people to commit to new resolutions? It is quite simple: We are human.
In our daily lives we [...]

Happy Holidays!
Dear Friends,
My parents are coming from Austria and almost our entire family will gather at our house, so it will be a very traditional family Christmas at our home this year.
We are going to do something unusual; we are actually going to take the Christmas week off. I hope all of you are enjoying [...]

When it rains in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area…
Yes, it occasionally happens that we get rain showers in the Valley of the Sun. It is a rather rare occasion – rare enough – it is worth a mention on a couple of real estate blogs, and Jay and Jonathan have it covered.
Today, I had to [...]

The District at Tempe Marketplace is kicking it up for the Holiday Season!
It has been approximately two months since Tempe Market Place officially opened. The open-air shopping and entertainment destination sits on piece of real estate which once encompassed five landfills and had 52 different landowners. After 4 years of development, Tempe Marketplace officially opened [...]

RealBird Inc. and Zoltan Szendro Rock!
The other night, when I started tinkering with the sidebar and looking for ways to incorporate real estate listings in a subtle way, I came across the service from RealBird.com.
In a nutshell, RealBird.com is a listing publisher which offers several services to promote real estate listings. One of the features [...]

Missing in Action: Phoenix Real Estate Blogger Sighting Confirmed!
It never occurred to me that some people might actually miss me on the blogosphere. and boy, was I surprised to read this post on Jay’s blog this morning.
Yes, I have not posted in quite some time and I could give you a long list of [...]

Scottsdale Historical Society’s 2007 home tour:
If you’ve been with me for a while, you might remember my question at the end of April: Can We Be Ready? That’s when Mignon Trice of the Scottsdale Historical Society invited us – and our house – to be on the 2007 home tour. Being invited is quite an [...]