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The Arizona Republic<\/i> is positively ripe with real estate stories today.<\/p>\nThe Arizona Republic<\/i> is positively ripe with real estate stories today.<\/p>\n
First up, the amazingly ugly Chateaux on Central condominium development<\/a> 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 pass on choice units, thus exhausting the entire market for this giant gargoyle of a structure.<\/p>\n In that same column, ace real estate reporter Catherine Reagor suggests that there might be a connection between lower interest rates and increased buyer activity. Jeepers! Who’d ‘a thunk it?!<\/p>\n Economist Elliott Pollack says nice things about the Valley’s growth prospects<\/a>, so he must<\/i> be making it all up. Cliff’s Notes: Fundamentals strong, new housing over-built, possibly still as long as two years to shake out.<\/p>\n One of the things I love about this place is that people are audacious. We all know about the giant fake lake in Tempe, but did you know that we have not one but two<\/i> airstrip-based subdivisions? Garage in front, hangar in back with accessways leading to a private airstrip. In Gilbert, there is a boat-racing subdivision — a long, skinny lake surrounded by houses with docks. They run nationally-televised boat races there. Comes news today that we are about to get our own micro-winery<\/a>. Modeled on the idea of a micro-brewery, a vintner plans to set up business in Downtown Tempe.<\/p>\n Finally, there is a fun story on the development problems posed by hundreds of old military bombing sites in Pinal County<\/a>. The explosive charges used in the practice bombs were very small — but still plenty enough to burn down a house. The interesting thing is that we’re talking about Pinal County — too much, too soon, too often declared DOA in the housing downturn. It could be there are people in the real estate business who have heard there really was a day before yesterday, and there may, in fact, truly be a day beyond tomorrow… Technorati Tags: arizona<\/a>, arizona real estate<\/a>, phoenix<\/a>, phoenix real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":586,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/586\/the-halloween-carnival-of-scary-real-estate-stories-is-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":689,"position":0},"title":"The Halloween Carnival of Scary Real Estate Stories is up . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"at The Real Estate TomatoPumpkin. 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