by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Canada and Canadians, Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
In Part 1, I detailed that Canada recorded its first ever surplus in bilateral direct investment with the U.S. last year. Direct Canadian investment in the United States was $17.1 billion greater last year than U.S. direct investment in Canada in 2008. This amount...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Foreclosures + Short Sales, Real Estate Facts & Figures
Arizona’s residential real estate market is schizophrenic right now – a dichotomy of healthy sales in some segments versus years on the market in others. The good news is that lower sale prices overall have allowed buyers once priced out of the market to enter...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 26, 2015 | Home Buying
The buying process should be easy, right? A seller should be desperate to unload their devalued property in this market, so buyers should get what they want quickly. In some parts of the metropolitan Phoenix and Scottsdale market, this can be true. But in those areas...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 26, 2015 | Home Buying, Mortgages + Lending
As of July 1, select home buyers in Maricopa County can take advantage of the Your Way Home AZ program. An offshoot of the HUD for Home Purchase Assistance project, the state version provides eligible buyers with up to 22% of a home’s purchase price. The statewide...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 26, 2015 | Canada and Canadians
The U.S. government’s Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative has impacted travel by Canadians to the U.S. The question is whether the passport requirement portion of the law has been as disruptive to Canadians traveling to the U.S. as once was feared. As of June 1 all...
