Selling Your Prescott, Arizona Home? Think Like A Buyer

If you are trying to sell your Prescott area home, consider thinking like a home buyer. Walk around your home, what features do you like? What parts of your home need work? From the color of the paint on your walls to how clean your carpet appears, the details are important and the details are [...]

Relocating to the Prescott AZ area? To Buy or Rent is the Question

If you are relocating to the Prescott, AZ area chances are that one of the biggest questions looming in your mind is whether you should buy or rent a home. Of course only you can make that decision but there are some important factors to weigh. How permanent do you feel this relocation is? Do [...]

Interest Rates May Rise By Next Year

Forecasters are predicting that interest rates will be on the rise by next year.  This is mainly due to the fact that the Federal Reserve is ending its heavy purchase of mortgage securities by the end of this month. 
Even if the housing market sales prices continue to drop, waiting to buy until next year with possibly [...]

New Housing Plan to Help Prescott AZ Foreclosures?

In an continued effort to help the national and Prescott AZ foreclosure crisis, the Obama administration announced a new plan to help troubled homeowners.  The following groups will hopefully be helped to avoid foreclosure:

Borrowers who are upside down on their mortgages.  About 15 million homeowners currently owe more on their loans that what their homes are [...]

Buyers Snapping Up Prescott AZ Real Estate

Buyers are definitely taking advantage of several fairly recent Prescott AZ real estate developments.  Now that spring is here, there are currently 3,000 new and used Prescott homes on the market, giving buyers a great selection of available homes in the market. 
Then the median sales price for homes in Prescott AZ has decreased 11.9% or [...]

Prescott AZ Ranked as Best Place to Retire…Again

The website www.topretirements.com once again placed Prescott AZ on their list of the “100 Best Places to Retire List for 2010″.
Ranking high at #3, Prescott AZ was an easy pick for the best place in US to retire to due to the numerous active adult retirement communities that border the Prescott National Forest to the [...]

Prescott AZ Home Buyer Mistakes to Avoid

For new Prescott AZ home buyers looking to take advantage of the First Home buyers Tax Credit, remember the following tips to avoid costly future mistakes.
First make sure to check your credit report and take care of any mistakes. To take advantage of the best mortgage rates, home buyers will need a credit score of [...]

Take Advantage of Prescott AZ Home Ownership

With the real estate industry leveling out across the nation, people these days are asking if it would make more sense to rent a home.  However new home-buyers in the Prescott AZ real estate market may see many advantages to buying a new home now versus just renting. 
Some of these Prescott AZ home buyer advantages include:

Tax [...]

Prescott AZ Real Estate Update January 20th

Property for sale in the “Mile High” town of Prescott AZ is a buyer’s market for the week ending in January 20th.  Currently 2,057 Prescott homes are for sale with 359 of those homes in various stages of foreclosure procedures. 
The median sales price for homes in Prescott AZ between September through November 2009 was $243,750 [...]

Prescott AZ One of the Most Secure U.S. Places to Live

When looking at real estate for sale, neighborhood safety is usually a factor that most people consider before buying a new home. Recently, the blog LocalSpur reported on the Farmers Insurance Group of Company’s third annual ranking of the top 20 ‘Most Secure U.S. Places to Live’.
Out of a pool of 379 U.S. municipalities [...]