Historic Willo Welcomes Visitors This Sunday!
The homes do not have garages, walk-in closets, or entertainment centers. They were built in the 1920’s and ’30’s before people thought lots of storage space was essential in a home. But for every modern convenience they may seem to lack, the historic homes of Willo more than make up [...]

Google Street View on Google Maps: Dad, you left the trunk open!
Steve Belt covered the launch of Google Street View in the Phoenix and Scottsdale Area last October. I was fascinated and, for the most part, I was thinking that Google Street Maps would be a great additional marketing tool. I was right, and [...]

Ignorance of Common Sense Excuses No One:
This evening I was channel surfing and happened to come across the 60 Minutes segment “House of Cards: The Mortgage Mess“. Steve Kroft did the story, and I thought that it was a pretty good summary of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in plain English even a layman can understand.
Even [...]

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 [...]