{"id":1136,"date":"2007-03-11T22:32:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T05:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2007-03-11T22:36:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T05:36:40","slug":"were-not-mensa-members-but-real-estate-is-a-dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1136\/were-not-mensa-members-but-real-estate-is-a-dream-job\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re not MENSA members – but real estate is a dream job"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following was on the front page<\/a>, just under the masthead of Sunday’s Arizona Republic:<\/em><\/p>\n

Home Values rise despite slowdown<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite falling prices by year’s end, leftover momentum from the Valley’s housing boom pushed 2006 values above the previous year’s values in almost every city.<\/p>\n

Median price increases in Maricopa County ranged from 2% in Higley to 47% in Tonopah. Only Waddell and Youngtown experienced declines, according to The Republic’s<\/em> latest Valley Home Values survey.<\/p>\n

So what now? Analysts agree the market is in transition. Some believe the market has not yet hit bottom; others predict a turnaround.<\/p>\n

“This is a good market,” analyst Jay Butler says. “It’s good vanilla ice cream. It’s not gourmet ice cream.” – Glen Creno<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve met Glen Creno and honestly believe him to be a good person<\/a>. Also, I have no reason to believe that Jay Butler<\/a> is anything but a decent man, as well. Unlike someone like Keith Brand<\/a> or Mike Ferry<\/a> who will knowingly<\/em> spread lies and mis-information in order to achieve their goals – a social personality may err, but they aren’t doing it on purpose.<\/p>\n

Using the median sales prices of an area (which almost all economists and others doing sales data analysis seem to want to do) may be quite useful in \"Notdetermining which city has the best (or worst) affordability<\/a>. Median sales prices have no meaningful value if used to determine short-term movement of home prices. NONE. The median price of a home can go down and that does not mean that the actual selling price of any<\/u> home in that area went down even one dollar! The median price can go up and it does not even begin to suggest that “the prices went up”. Everyone who thinks otherwise is wrong.<\/p>\n

How do I know? I’m a member of Not MENSA<\/a>. I know and use the MENSA pick up lines<\/a>. I don’t have a PHD so I don’t have to take loads of statistics and churn out predictions for the valley or the nation. Based on a survey that NAR wrote about, I’m happy; I have a dream job<\/a>. A real big part of my dream Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following was on the front page, just under the masthead of Sunday’s Arizona Republic: Home Values rise despite slowdown Despite falling prices by year’s end, leftover momentum from the Valley’s housing boom pushed 2006 values above the previous year’s values in almost every city. Median price increases in Maricopa County ranged from 2% in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-investment","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/53\/an-open-letter-to-catherine-reagor-and-glen-creno-of-the-arizona-republic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1136,"position":0},"title":"An open letter to Catherine Reagor and Glen Creno of the Arizona Republic","author":"Odysseus","date":"February 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":156,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/156\/i-feel-like-the-dr-phil-of-real-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":1136,"position":1},"title":"“I feel like the Dr. Phil of real estate . . . “","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Glen Creno of the Arizona Republic catches sight of The Mole:That's especially true these days in metropolitan Phoenix's post-boom housing market, where nearly everything has reversed since last year's frenzy. 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The real problem, though, is with the facts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1535,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1535\/we-finally-made-the-paper-oh-wait-we-didnt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1136,"position":3},"title":"We finally made the paper! Oh, wait, we didn’t . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a pretty much boundless contempt for the Arizona Republic. The paper's real estate coverage is eclipsed in its stupidity only by its insipidity. There is no conceivable issue upon which ASU's Jay Butler is not the absolute authority, and there is never an occasion when the news, no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1110,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1110\/glean-and-gary-and-glen-and-ross-tourette-syndrome-in-real-estate-sales\/","url_meta":{"origin":1136,"position":4},"title":"Glen and Gary and Glen and Ross: Tourette Syndrome in real estate sales . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I popped in to Grow a Brain and found this gem. Warning: Very strong language. 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