The monsoon season has finally arrived in the valley. Rainfall totals exceeding 2" in some communities have been reported, with the typical street flooding and flooding washes.
This is a good time to remind everyone about the "Stupid Motorist Law". This law makes it illegal to pass traffic barriers and cross a flooded wash. Violators who [...]

In Arizona, the typical listing agreement will include specific permission to do 2 things.
First, permission to put up a for sale sign. For most people with homes for sale this is a given, of course they want a sign. In Sun City and Sun City West, these signs are the best advertisment you will [...]

Crescent Crown Distributing has announce that it will build a regional headquarters an distribution facility at the Surprise Pointe commericial park.
Crescent expects to employ 250 people initially, growing to 600 jobs in the near future. The company also has a distribution center in Phoenix, which it will keep open. That facility employs nearly 600 people.
Crescent [...]

Growing, Growing Grown!
Forbes.com reports that Surprise Arizona is the third-fastest-growing suburb in America according the the Arizona Republic. In the same article, the Republic says that Money magazine rated Surprise AZ as first in the nation for the rate of new job growth.
Four of the top ten fast growing suburbs were in the West Maricopa [...]

Surprise is the growth center of the northwest valley, located west of Glendale, Peoria, Sun City and Sun City West.
The town was a small, one-mile square village when it started in 1937. It has since become Arizona’s fastest growing city 4 years out of the last 5. The population is now over 100,000. For more [...]

Homes for sale in Sun City Grand, Westbrook Village
If you like many others believe you have to be 55 years old to live in an active adult community, have I got news for you.
Both Sun City Grand, and Westbrook Village have lower age restrictions. You may buy a home and live in it at age [...]

Countrywide Financial, one of the largest mortgage originators reported that They made 45 Billion dollars in mortage loans in June. This is a 4% increase over June of 2006. The company accomplished this in spite of vastly reduced activity in the sub-prime and adjustable rate mortgages.
The company still finds the housing market soft, but a [...]

In today’s Arizona Republic, Cathrine Reagor reports a few things of interest to home buyers and home sellers.

New home building continues to slow.
Condo sales are bucking the trend. Sales of existing condos are up about 8%.

Regarding number 1, good news for sellers of existing homes, they do not have to compete with builder [...]

As if triple digit heat isn’t enough, in Arizona, July is the start of the monsoon season.
The monsoon season is a change in weather caused by a seasonal change in the wind direction. Here that means the wind direction no longer typically comes from the west, but now from the south.
These monsoon winds [...]

Home Sales up in Sun City and Surprise Arizona
The West Valley’s Daily News-Sun newspaper, citing a study by Realty Studies at Arizona State University Polytechnic reported today, July 13, 2007, that Sun City and Surprise resales of homes were strong when compared to the same month last year.
Sun City Arizona home resales were 115 [...]