Up-to-date Arizona real estate news from multiple sources. The feed is managed/created by Real Estate Learning Center, an Arizona real estate school. http://www.realestatelc.com/news Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:01 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/images/rsslogo.gif http://www.realestatelc.com The feed is managed/created by Real Estate Learning Center (http://www.realestatelc.com), an Arizona real estate school. http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8460 03, 2012, under Arizona Republic News No one at this year's Urban Land Institute conference predicted when metro Phoenix's housing market will rebound. The annual Arizona conference, where real-estate industry leaders convene and predict the market's ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:00:06 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8459 3, 2012 11:21 PM No one at this year's Urban Land Institute conference predicted when metro Phoenix's housing market will rebound. The annual Arizona conference, where real-estate industry leaders convene and predict the market's movements, ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:00:11 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8457 Data from independent real estate aggregators and the Prescott Area Association of Realtors show that foreclosures fell in the last three months of 2011. "We've reached the bottom, which the data shows it's a bad market still, but it's moving from the ... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:00:08 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8453 It's no surprise that some of the loudest outcry is from the housing industry, a labor market that was slammed by the Great Recession. When times were good, jobs were as plentiful as profits. That money not only trickled down through the local economy, ... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:11 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8454 Posted: Friday, February 3, 2012 6:00 am | Updated: 12:04 pm, Thu Feb 2, 2012. by Roger Yohem Burned by toxic home loans that ruined their credit, foreclosed-upon residents are driving an epic shift in the region's housing market. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:11 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8452 Endorse a plan that encourages utilities to invest in the state's renewable energy industry. These are just a few proposals from House Democrats who have either designed or revived initiatives this session to promote renewable energy, ... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:07 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8442 1, 2012 11:20 PM President Barack Obama is proposing new legislation that would change the way houses are bought, sold and refinanced as an effort to stabilize the nation's ailing housing system. One immediate goal of the so-called Homeowner Bill of ... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:00:08 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8441 But Midwest manufacturing strongholds and states that were clobbered by the real estate crash, such as Florida and Arizona, experienced particularly sharp drops in household income. For the entire country, median annual household income fell 3.5% from ... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:00:05 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8425 Originally set to expire in December 2012, the administration's Home Affordable Modification Program will be in place through the end of 2013, part of a renewed push by the Administration to bolster the housing market's recovery. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:00:11 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8410 Lennar Homes is offering a NextGen Home model that includes a separate one-bedroom unit for, say, an elderly parent. The unit connects to the main house, but has its own entrance (left), kitchen and living area. "What we've found ... is that more and ... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:00:07 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8404 Retired real estate broker Frank Bennett and real estate agent Charlie Randall will do stand up comedy. Thrown into the mix is well-known local country music artist Cindy Standage, Valley band The Screamin' Javelinas, and dancers from Kawambe-Omowale ... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:00:19 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8403 Smith recently sold a 4000-square-foot home and began looking at existing homes, only a few of which she said had what she sought. While Smith thought she was going to go through tons of homes, the fact is she didn't, settling on a new 1900-square-foot ... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:00:09 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8402 For the second year in a row, "Legends of Real Estate" will be honored by the Southern Arizona CCIM Chapter (Certified Commercial Investment Member). To set the tone, the group has lined up two notable speakers: University of Arizona Athletic Director ... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:00:12 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8398 Prior to becoming a legislator in 2009 Williams was a small businessman & had started his first firm, Racksource, a warehousing equipment company in California, and had also invested in real estate. Read more from his AZ House of Representative bio ... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:00:09 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8390 "We have a full marketing and renovation plan for the center," said Jeff Hawke, an owner of Kinetic Companies, a Phoenix company that specializes in real estate investment, retail shopping center development and management. Among the company hallmarks ... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:07 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8385 PHOENIX - The Arizona Department of Real Estate filed a cease and desist order against two local property management companies in the Valley. An audit by the Department last month showed a shortage of $794791.70 in the broker's trust account. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:00:08 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8383 The investigation sprang from an Arizona Republic report on the land deal that cited southeast Valley real-estate experts who agreed the $300000-per-acre purchase price was “out of tune” with market conditions when the deal was approved in early 2009. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:00:08 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8378 The investigation sprang from an Arizona Republic report on the land deal that cited southeast Valley real-estate experts who agreed the $300000-per-acre purchase price was “out of tune” with market conditions when the deal was approved in early 2009. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:00:09 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8377 Those companies currently include Southwest Next LLC, a countercyclical real-estate company buying commercial product, apartments, and land in a down market, and Old World Communities LLC, a land development company in the Phoenix market, and Chairman ... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:00:09 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=8372 Stephen Tebo, 67, a commercial real estate investor in Boulder, Colo., bought the hearse. “I have a car collection that I want to turn into a museum,” Tebo said. Final sales and attendance figures from Barrett-Jackson and Russo and Steele were ... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:00:29 +0100