Phoenix

4 Food Festivals We’re Most Excited About Happening in Arizona

Now that Arizona is slowly inching towards the Fall season, it’s time to see what the cooler temperatures bring us in terms of festivals! What’s better than cooler temps combined with quality food and great fun? We’re not so sure either so we have decided to compile some of our favorite upcoming festivals that are …

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AZ Real Estate Investments Have Bright Future

If you’re planning to buy a home in Phoenix, Flagstaff or Prescott, do it now, because prices are going up for the next few years. Investments in single-family rental properties have good potential mainly in Phoenix. Apartment developments have the best potential in Phoenix, where splitting homes into rental units is also attractive, and in …

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Neighborhood Features To Consider When Buying Or Selling A Home

The Neighborhood Features That Drag Down Your Home Value—Ranked When it comes to real estate clichés, “Location, location, location” has all other contenders (including “Not a drive-by!”; “Cash is king!”; “Is that your checkbook or are you just glad to see me?”; and “Worst house, best street”) beat by a mile. Not only has it been …

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How to Give Your Grown Kid the Holiday Gift of Money Smarts

5 suggestions for presents with staying power Here are Santa Kerry’s five money-smart suggestions to consider: 1. Cash alternatives No one ever complains about receiving cash. This year, earmark it toward a savings plan. Three options I discussed in this Next Avenue column: buying U.S. savings bonds, funding a 529 college-plan account and putting money …

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Canadian Investors Selling For Big Profits

Oh, Canadians, why are you buying fewer Phoenix homes? Canadian homebuyers are retreating from metro Phoenix. It’s “for sure.” The number of Valley houses purchased by people north of the U.S. border has fallen by half during the past year. And a growing number of Canadians who bought houses in the region during the past …

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Millennials Consider Buying Homes as Rents Get More Expensive

  While the Valley’s economy continues to improve, the housing market has lagged. “It’s been the one major missing piston in the whole economic recovery,” said Jim Huntzinger, chief investment officer of BOK Financial. “Housing has been slower than it almost ever has been coming out of any major recession.” And who do the experts …

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