October 26th: NCRC files specious complaint against Zillow.com. November 19th: Crack Arizona Republic real estate reporter Catherine Reagor yawns, burps, goes back to sleep: The popular Web site zillow.com gets a lot of hits as people frequently check the values of their homes and their neighbors’ in the fast-changing housing market. But not everyone agrees […]
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First, Catherine, congratulations on your new column. Hard work pays off. Second, I would dearly love it if both of you would bring some perspective to your writing. For example, from Catherine’s new column: What this year holds is the multibillion-dollar question. A 10 percent drop in home building or sales would cost the Valley’s […]
So says Arizona Republic real estate reporter Catherine Reagor in her pretend weblog. It’s true, too. Zestimates were questioned from the beginning. Just not by Reagor… < ?php include("Zapraisails.php"); ?> Technorati Tags: arizona, arizona real estate, blogging, phoenix, phoenix real estate, real estate, real estate marketing
I got back to my desk late this evening. I had an Inman News Flash email with a time stamp of 10:21 PM announcing the new features on Zillow. Naturally I thought I would pass it along to the Phoenix resident expert on all things Zillow – Greg Swann. The last two times I tried […]
The Arizona Republic is positively ripe with real estate stories today. First up, the amazingly ugly Chateaux on Central condominium development is being forced into bankruptcy. The homes were to sell for $2- to $4-million for apartments as many as six-stories tall — not a misprint. Freddy Krueger and Damien from The Omen took a […]
I stand corrected – what I wrote was wrong. I said, “Some interesting stats (that NAR should have evaluated but doesn’t dare – as it would look like they favored “traditional brokers” over the current crop of leeches)” 2006 NAR President, Tom Stevens did correctly evaluate that data and NAR did a wonderful job of […]
It’s Saturday, the Arizona Republic‘s favorite day to piss on the real estate market. Today ace reporter Catherine Reagor informs us that foreclosures are up. “By how much?” you ask. You don’t read the Republic much, do you? Instead of actual numbers we get all manner of obfuscation, scary anecdotes, out-of-context statistics and quotations from […]
Today marks the release of The Arizona Republic‘s semi-annual run-down of home prices. I’ve never liked this treatment because it is based on median prices — which tells you nothing about particular homes — and is sorted by zip code — arbitrary and enormous spaces. Here’s the Cliff’s Notes. You can pursue the links from […]
In the “Don’t Hate Me Just Because I’m Pitiful” sweepstakes, The Arizona Republic invites us to visit their brand new “Arizona Business Blogs”. They’re not new, but that hardly matters. First, there is no link to the not-new “Arizona Business Blogs” in the on-line article. Second, although there is a text representation of a link, […]
Two articles in today’s Arizona Republic on the state of the local economy as detailed by the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, both largely good news. Catherine Reagor continues her slow apprehension of the idea that this year is not last year. And R.L. Brown advises us all to adapt to the housing slowdown — […]
“Trends are changing daily,” says Catherine Reagor in her column in the Arizona Republic. Was I a younger man, I might trouble myself to wonder about a “trend” that lasts less than a day. But I am older, by now, and wiser, and sick to death of picking on Catherine Reagor. At least this week, […]
On bended knee: “May almighty god spare us from a world in which facts can be checked.” Catherine Reagor in today’s Arizona Republic: Check out the listings on homes: The phrase “motivated investor” describing the seller is pretty common. There are 46,680 active listings in the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service right now. This is […]
Indian givers? Great White Father makes plans to take back reservations . . . Catherine Reagor has a feature in today’s Arizona Republic on the idea of building new residential housing in North Scottsdale using leased land from Native American reservations: New homes will keep going up on metropolitan Phoenix’s fringes, stretching its boundaries as […]
Catherine Reagor in today’s Republic: Home prices dipped slightly in July, but sales inched up from June. The median home price of a used Valley home fell to $264,900 last month, after climbing to a record $267,000 in June. There were 5,545 resales in July, compared with 5,460 the month before, reports the Arizona Real […]
Catherine Reagor of the Arizona Republic actually acknowledges that comparing this year to last year may not be an ideally-informative strategy: Although the Valley’s housing market is definitely slowing, comparisons to last year’s frenzied sales pace and appreciation gains aren’t a perfect indicator. During 2005, metro Phoenix home prices soared 50 percent and houses were […]