by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Apr 23, 2020 | Home Buying, Home Ownership
Front yard grass is almost non existent in new and newer homes in the Valley of the Sun. And in the back yard, the great majority of those homes have limited or fake grass. Desert or natural landscaping is the preferred choice. This is the reverse of homes built in...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Apr 20, 2020 | Home Buying, Real Estate Facts & Figures
Do you know what the difference is between a street, an avenue and a road? The city of Phoenix uses a grid system for roadways, with suffixes organized according to location. That means that numbered streets west of Central Avenue will use the suffixes Avenue, Drive,...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Mar 26, 2020 | Home Buying, Renters and Renting
Metro Phoenix area apartment rent increases lead the nation, rising 7.4% over the past year. Almost every Valley of the Sun city beat the national 3% increase, with the city of Surprise leading the way with a remarkable 16% rent hike. Luxury complexes are still being...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Dec 17, 2019 | Home Buying, Real Estate Facts & Figures
New home sales in the Phoenix metro area were up 36% in October 2019 over that same month in 2018. In addition, single-family building permits in October 2019 were the most issued since July 2007.This means new home construction is finally catching up after years of...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Nov 19, 2019 | Home Buying, Title Insurance + Escrow
A service is shopable in the home sale process if there are different providers which quote different prices. An example of shopable service costs are a home warranty and a home inspection. But escrow and title services (the biggest costs) are not really shopable in...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Oct 31, 2019 | Home Buying
An agent checked out a new listing of an old home. All of the bedrooms of the home were in the basement. The agent walked down the stairs into a long, dark hallway that lead to what appeared to be the master bedroom. Every turn she took in that room she felt someone...
