Blog Profile / Phoenix Real Estate Guy
| URL : | http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Real Estate / Local Market | |
| Posts on Regator: | 911 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.4 | |
| Archived Since: | March 20, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
ARG Abbott Realty Group Pulls Listings from Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com
The real estate interwebs blew up last night when the announcement from San Diego based real estate brokerage Abbott Realty Group (ARG) came down that they were going to stop syndicating their company’s listings to national listing aggregator sites Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com. Sounds exactly like what Edina Realty announced in November 2011. (Though curiously, [...]Show More Summary
On Flat Fee “MLS Only” Real Estate Brokerage
This hit the email inbox today. It happens on a quasi-regular basis… Hello, We are selling our loft by owner and we see it is listed on your website, but that it hardly has any pictures – and certainly not the types of pictures that would attract buyers. Is there any chance you could replace [...]Show More Summary
World Class Jazz. In Gilbert! And a Contest!
Mark the dates… On March 29 – 31, the 2012 Highland Jazz Festival takes place, right here in sunny Gilbert, Arizona. What is the Highland Jazz Festival? A three day event for regional high school Jazz bands. Over 1,800 students will have a chance to work with some of the top jazz clinicians in the [...]Show More Summary
Thoughts on ‘Crowdsourcing’ in Real Estate
Yesterday I finished reading the latest Stephen King tome, “11/22/63” (a great read by the way). Needing a new book, I posted this on my Facebook Profile: I need a new book to read. Not some business / self-help / save the planet book. I want mindless entertainment. Mainstream fiction, historical fiction, perhaps a biography. [...]Show More Summary
Open Letter to the Gilbert School Board: On Music Education
Dear Gilbert School Board Members - Long time no chat! Somehow my annual pilgrimage to one of your meetings to beg, plead and grovel for funding for music and fine arts programs never materialized this year. This is good. I do want to share a little story with you, one that I hope you will read, [...]Show More Summary
Dear Flancer’s Cafe: I Hate You
Dear Flancer’s Cafe - I hate you. Yesterday, we called in an order to go. Three of your delightful sandwich’s to take home and enjoy while we celebrated our daughter’s admission to the Barrett Honor’s College at ASU. The ladies ordered their usual Prickly Pear Chicken sandwich, and I went with my traditional We Must [...]Show More Summary
New Home Construction in Gilbert Picks Up
Nice to see a bit of good news (for once) in the mainstream press about real estate in Gilbert… A couple of days ago, the Arizona Republic ran an article, Gilbert new-home construction picked up in 2011. Some of the highlights: 1,545 single-family construction permits were issued in Gilbert in 2011. That’s up 46% from [...]Show More Summary
TPREG Goes World Wide!
Why yes, this is a shameless self-promotional piece. You are, of course, free not to read it! Read on though, for some thoughts and ideas on website analytics mining… The World Wide Web is truly world wide. In 2011, this little corner of the Internet had just over one million visitors. While that number boggles [...]Show More Summary
Fall Has Arrived in Phoenix!
While making my daily pilgrimage to Starbucks this morning, I noticed that seemingly overnight the trees have decided that fall has arrived. This despite the last couple of weeks with daily high temperatures pushing 80. Yeah, it sucks living in Phoenix in the “Fall” and “Winter”… Driving around with the top down. Wearing shorts and [...]Show More Summary
BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit 2012
If you are a real estate investor, seasoned or just getting started, or even if you are just curious about real estate investing, you would be wise to consider attending the BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit and Expo on March 23 – 24 in Denver. Thompson’s Realty is proud to be a sponsor of this [...]Show More Summary
How to Make a Home Seller Happy
Something I hear from real estate agents frequently: I do _________ just to appease my home selling clients. You can fill in that blank with things like: Running ads in the Sunday paper Holding open houses Using QR codes on sign riders Enhancing listings on Realtor.com Setting up a Facebook page for the home Blasting [...]Show More Summary
Thompson’s Realty Welcomes Angela Higgins!
Let’s start off 2012 with a bang! We’re pleased to welcome Angela Higgins to our growing family of world-class real estate agents / human beings. Angie comes to us from RE/MAX Excalibur and has been licensed since 2007. She previously worked at Century 21 Northwest and began her real estate career with Diversified Partners. Real [...]Show More Summary
Gratitude…
There have been roughly half a bazillion articles posted across the internet over the last few days about New Year’s resolutions, goals for 2012, accomplishments in 2011, blah blah blah. I’ve never been a big fan of making resolutions. It seems if you want to resolve to do something, you should just do it. Why [...]Show More Summary
The Best of TPREG 2011
“Best of…” lists are never easy to compile. What constitutes a “best” blog post? Number of comments, Likes, or Retweets? Number of visitors? Ones that make the phone ring with paying clients (YES! But that is virtually impossible to measure). “Best” is subjective. What one person thinks is a great post, someone else may find [...]Show More Summary
The Thompson’s Realty Manifesto
Manifesto: man·i·fes·to noun \?ma-n?-?fes-(?)t?\ : a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. Spend any length of time in the real estate industry and you will hear buzz words like “Unique Selling Proposition,” “Value Add,” and the like tossed about as real estate brokerages volley back and forth in usually [...]Show More Summary
New Year’s Eve in Phoenix. Ringing in 2012!
If you are looking for something to do on New Year’s Eve in Phoenix, you may just find something here. This isn’t a comprehensive list of Phoenix New Year’s Eve events, creating that may be impossible. This is a compilation from various sources across the Internet. As such, some data may not be completely accurate, [...]Show More Summary
Merry Christmas! (Or Happy Holidays?)
Editor’s note: The following was originally published on Dec 4, 2005, as Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays. All this broo-ha-ha (how do you spell that?) about whether to say, “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays” has me about ready to scream! For those who aren’t aware (or are living under a rock) the controversy over the “political correctness” [...]Show More Summary
A Peek Inside One Real Estate Brokerage Model
Disclosure: I need to be careful here and not get myself sued or slapped with a Code of Ethics violation. Hence the complete lack of individual and company names. Any exchanges that have taken place via email, Facebook, or smoke signal have been paraphrased. What follows is simply my thoughts on a prevalent real estate [...]Show More Summary
NAR Announces Formation of Technology & Emerging Issues Subcommittee
Members of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Multiple Listing Issues and Policies Committee received an email this morning from Cliff Niersbach, NAR Vice President, Board Policy and Programs and NAR Staff Executive to the MLS Committee: Good morning Committee members. I respectfully advise that NAR’s Elected Leadership has established and appointed a Technology and [...]Show More Summary
Historical Mortgage Rate Chart: 30 Year Fixed Interest Loan
For whatever reason, people always seem to find these mortgage rate trend charts fascinating. Here is the historical mortgage rate trend chart for 30 year fixed loans from April 1971 through November 2011. Data is supplied by FreddieMac. Excel wizardry by yours truly. You are welcome to use this chart, all I ask is that [...]Show More Summary