Richard Riccelli asks Historic districts: Good for buyers? Sellers? Realtors? This guy?? I say: depends on what the buyer wants; maybe but maybe not; neutral; that guy was robbed! Buyers of any property, real or personal, get to celebrate their own personal tastes by buying what they like and can afford. So are historic districts […]
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October 26th: NCRC files specious complaint against Zillow.com. November 19th: Crack Arizona Republic real estate reporter Catherine Reagor yawns, burps, goes back to sleep: The popular Web site zillow.com gets a lot of hits as people frequently check the values of their homes and their neighbors’ in the fast-changing housing market. But not everyone agrees […]
Picture yourself living in Boston, Massachusetts, where the climate is six months of drizzle and mud followed by six months of deep snow and permafrost. Let’s say it comes to your mind to bid a final farewell to all things wintery and shuffle off to the endless, boundless, soul-enriching sunny skies of Phoenix, Arizona. This […]
Heads up, folks. It’s a shake-down. Poor Zillow.com has gotten itself caught up in a classic Jesse Jackson-style shake-down. This is specious bullshit, and everyone who cares about justice — and about not having the rest of the net raped by posturing diversity pirates — should line up with the Zestimators. They should disclose openly […]
Nominate me Ikonoklastes, for I am come to raze this temple of half-baked ideas. I want to come back to the MLS later in the week, and I have a deep need to expose the motivations of brokers, as these are distinguished from the motivations of lesser licensees. But for now I want to take […]
My BubbleBoys are mostly gone for the moment, no doubt off like a cloud of gnats desperate to enshroud someone else’s head. The truth is, I do have a particular kind of fun at their expense, not the least of which are their pitch-perfect echoes of the charges I make against them. They were so […]
I lived in Phoenix when the Arizona Republic was still a great American newspaper, a daily example of how good a mainstream media outlet could be if it worked from fact, not bias. The Copy Desk — the folks who write headlines and captions — was rich with poets and punsters in those days, which […]
First, Catherine, congratulations on your new column. Hard work pays off. Second, I would dearly love it if both of you would bring some perspective to your writing. For example, from Catherine’s new column: What this year holds is the multibillion-dollar question. A 10 percent drop in home building or sales would cost the Valley’s […]