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2010 Yearly Sales Summary,Sun City AZ Real Estate

This is it,the end of 2010 and the bigging of 2011.

The following table shows the year to date sales of real estate by agents during 2010.

To paraphrase Charles Dickens,It was NOT the best of times,it was NOT the worst of times.

The biggest factor this year for both selling price [...]

8 Tips for Selling YOUR Sun City Home

8 TIPS FOR SELLING A HOME IN SUN CITY ARIZONA From Jim Little,Your Sun City Neighborhood REALTOR®

Tip 1 for selling a home in Sun City Arizona:It has been said before,and will be said again,SELECT YOUR AGENT! This agent should SPECIALIZE in selling homes in the Sun City Arizona market. Why? [...]

How Much Home Will $600 a Month Buy In Sun City AZ?

Yesterday I posted that the Greater Phoenix Az area was rated number 1 in the nation for affordable retirement housing. You can read that post here.

I decided to do a little research and find out how many homes were on the market that could be bought for a house payment of $600 per month [...]

What a Real Estate Agent does for you

This is a long post,and is provided courtesy on the National Association of REALTORS® and

Orlando Regional REALTORS®. 

The information is valid,now more than ever.

Surveys show that many homeowners and homebuyers are not aware of the true value a REALTOR® provides during the course of a real estate [...]

10 Reasons to Buy Your Sun City Home in 2010

Prices have declined to 2003-2004 levels and are bottoming out. You don’t have to pay an over-inflated price. There is still a little room to negotiate with the sellers. Interest rates are a historic lows,but Treasury has already stated the interest subsidies will go away next spring. Tax credits of $6500 to $8000 [...]

Do Homes or Condominiums Sell Faster in Sun City?

Yesterday,I finally got around to evaluating the Sun City Market by housing type. ie Single Family vs Condominium. I used the last six weeks of MLS data for this. (9/1/09-10/14/09)

I have long felt that the single family home is more desirable to most of the buyers who come to Sun City,but have [...]

I Can Help Your Friends!

Who do you know that is looking to buy or sell real estate in the next 6 months? Contact me and I can either help them locally or refer them to a competent real estate agent through my extensive network of agents nationwide.

Jim Little,Your Sun City REALTOR

Looking for an Agent? Read this.

When you google something like “homes for sale in…”or “real estate agents in…”you will find the first several pages of hits are probably not agents or brokers actually working in the area you are interested in.

Who are they? Aggregators,companies that specialize in capturing your contact information and selling it to agents [...]

The Paradox,Sales up,Prices down.

People trying to sell a home today ask me,“Why do I have to sell such a low price”?

The answer is at once simple and complex. The Phoenix AZ market is currently driven by the lenders selling foreclosed properties. In addition,there are many people who face foreclosure. Currently there are over 40,000 notices [...]

October MLS Inventory,Sun City Neighborhood