Belfiore: Unprecedented jump in home sales
By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter The regional housing has seen an unprecedented jump in home sales spurred by historically low mortgage interest rates even as Arizona navigates COVID-19 and its impacts. Belfiore Real Estate Consulting reports new home sales jumped 28 percent between mid-June and mid-July compared to a year ago. Home sales […]
Read More →Architecture firms adjust to new needs of Valley office workers
By Barbara Smith | Phoenix Business Journal Valley architects are in a unique position these days, considering they are in the business of planning how workspaces are laid out. As think pieces spring up across the internet pondering whether Covid-19 means the end of office and public spaces as we know it, and real estate […]
Read More →Pandemic brings disruption to the Valley real estate market
By Corina Vanek | Phoenix Business Journal By the middle of May, after already having his staff work from home for about six weeks, Brett Farmiloe made the decision to close his Scottsdale office and put it up for sublease. “We have 15 employees in about 2,000 square feet of space, and we made the […]
Read More →New $100M affordable housing fund is about more than four walls
By Catherine Reagor | The Republic A $100 million fund to spur more affordable housing for Arizona’s rapidly growing population of homeless and low-income residents launched this week with the help of Medicaid and other healthcare providers. The Home Matters Arizona Fund already has drawn $37 million in grants and project financing to help developat leastsome of the nearly 200,000 affordable […]
Read More →Landlord sues Gov. Ducey over eviction moratorium
By Rebekah L. Sanders | The Republic A Phoenix landlord is suing Gov. Doug Ducey over an executive order temporarily delaying evictions for thousands of Arizona renters who have lost pay or become sick during the pandemic. The landlord, Ann Gregory of Gregory Real Estate and Management, is asking a court to allow an eviction to proceed against […]
Read More →Ranking Arizona: Top 10 real estate agents for 2020
Ranking Arizona | AZBigMedia Here are the Top 10 real estate agents in Arizona, based on public voting for the 2020 edition of Ranking Arizona, the state’s biggest and most comprehensive business opinion poll. Ranking Arizona is based purely on opinion and ranks companies based on how voters answer this simple question: with whom would […]
Read More →Realtors: Customers are back
By Jann Swanson | Mortgage Daily News A new survey by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) has found that the vast majority of its members feel as though their businesses are back on track. NAR says, “After enduring months of setbacks brought on by the coronavirus pandemic…more than nine in 10 members believe they […]
Read More →Single-family home construction during COVID: Which states fared best?
By Yuka Kato | FIXr Many industries have felt a slow down or some form of an economic impact in the second quarter of 2020 due to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. With widespread shutdowns and stay at home orders, many states had to prioritize only essential businesses to help keep people safe. Home […]
Read More →How COVID is impacting tenant interest in Phoenix apartments; RLG attorney Dan Gauthier comments
By Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal Tenant traffic at metro Phoenix apartments has steadily improved since the beginning of April, according to a new report from Radix, a Scottsdale-based data research firm that tracks apartment activity nationwide. Research conducted through July 1 shows a narrowing gap in potential tenant visits to apartments compared with […]
Read More →Rose Law Group Heroics: Saving a child from fire
Phillip Blanks played wide receiver at a Southern California college but his greatest catch was to save the life of a child thrown from the balcony of an apartment on fire in Phoenix. Officials say the child’s mother saved the before she died.
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