| With winter temps in the –18 or so,don’t you want to come to Sun City AZ and enjoy yourself? Sun City is Arizona’s premier adult community. It is celebrating its 50th year in 2010. In spite of being 50 years old,Sun City,like its residents,remains a very vital and lively [...] 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 [...] Not my words,this is the headline from a Business Week writer,Marc Roth. His position,interest is at ~5% for a thirty year fixed loan. This is a historically low rate,the lowest in 40 years. You can read the original article HERE. In addition to the points Mr. Roth writes about,think of [...] Sony created this you tube presentation about the rapid change in our world today. It is almost frightening in its scope. Little factoids such as CHINA is soon to have the largest ENGLISH speaking population in the world. INDIA has more honors students than the US has children. Technology is changing so fast that subject [...] To Quote Lenn Harley * * * * HARD CORE REAL ESTATE TALK AHEAD* * * * No day goes by that I don’t see real estate agents advertise something like,“I can short sell your home at no cost to you”. This leads many distressed sellers who are upside down on their home,or [...] I don’t have an invitation,but am watching the results of those who do. It will probably take a long time for the vendors to the real estate industry to get on board,but how nice to have all of the 50 to 60 pages of transaction docs in one place. Likewise,how nice to [...] 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 [...] And,The Numbers For September Are:Active Listings as of 10/1/09 689 Average List Price $135,500 79 homes sold Absorption Rate 9 months Number of Single Family Homes for Sale 357 Number of Condos for Sale 332 Average Days on the Market 135 The Sales prices ranged from $46,900 to $470,000 with an average of [...] 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 It is always a big thing in Sun City when Fall comes. Up in the northern areas of the country,you probably mark the day you first see geese heading south. Here in Sun City,we count the first Minnesota license plate sighted. It is a better measure of the season than the weather,which [...] | |