21st Willo Home Tour & Street Fair this Sunday, February 8th 2009:
If you follow my blog, you might know by now that I love historic homes. Perhaps it has something to with the fact that I grew up in Europe and once lived in a timbered house in Southern Germany (here is a picture on [...]

Photography And Sore Stomach Muscles at the Stray Cat Theatre in Tempe, Arizona
Lately I have been taking my photography hobby a little bit more seriously and found myself motivated to learn more about professional lighting.
One of the best way to learn something is by actually doing it, at least that method works best for me [...]

24th Annual F.Q. Story Home Tour December 6th and 7th, 2008

In the short existence of this blog I have written a couple of blog posts about Phoenix Historic Districts and this weekend we continue on the Journey through the Phoenix Historic Districts.
This weekend, the 24th Annual F.Q. Story Home Tour and Gift Sale will open on Lynwood Street. It will [...]

Christkindlmarkt coming to Mesa, Arizona:
The holidays are approaching fast and usually this is the time of year when I reflect on childhood memories of the holiday season. One of my favorite things was going to the Christkindlmarkt and I can’t tell you how much I miss the smell of roasting chestnuts and warming up with [...]

Greater Phoenix resale numbers show decline in prices:
photo credit: kevindooley
Realty Studies associated with the Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus reports that Greater Phoenix residential resale numbers show a huge decline in prices.
The decline in prices certainly does not come as a surprise as we painfully witnessed this [...]

My friend John who is my Photography-Sensei seized the opportunity to take snapshots of mother nature’s most spectacular sides in the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area - The Monsoon Storms. This slide-show includes some incredible photos of yesterday’s lightning strikes in the valley. This slide show also includes some breath taking pictures of fires started by [...]

Phoenix Fabulous 4th of July - Fun and Fireworks
Wow, it almost has already been a year again since I have blogged about where to celebrate Forth of July in the Phoenix Metro area.
Most of the links in last years post point to updated information, however Scottsdale’s Family Barbecue will be celebrated at the [...]

Bill Austin on Social Media:
Bill Austin presenting Social Media at the third Arizona Real Estate Blogger Network Meetup. This video is approximately 50 minutes long and will give you a general overview of what Social Media is and how to apply it to the Real Estate Business.
Bill Austin on Social Media from phoenixrealestatelive on Vimeo.

For a long time technology embracing REALTORS® belonging to ARMLS were limited in choices to display real estate listings on their websites and blogs. We could either frame the free and rather basic MLS search provided directly by the Arizona Multiple Listing Service, or utilize the only advanced solution provided by Success Web System [...]

Bank Owned Homes from El Mirage to Queen Creek:
Recently, I have been home shopping a lot with first time buyers. Just before my trip to Austria I got a foreclosure under contract in Queen Creek where I represent my clients as their buyers agent. My buyers were pretty much under the gun finding a new [...]