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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: It&#8217;s Official!  President Obama Signed the Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension and Expansion into Law Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the Senate voted unanimously in favor of a bill to extend and expand the homebuyer tax credit.   On Thursday, the House voted 403-12 to pass the measure.   Today, President Obama signed the bill &#8211; H.R. 3548 &#8211; into law.   Totaling $24 billion, the law also provides extended jobless benefits for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Breaking News &#8211; Obama to Extend Homebuyer Tax Credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today the House signed a bill that will extend (and expand) the first-time homebuyer&#8217;s tax credit and introduce a similar credit for people who already own their home but need to move.   President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law on Friday. Here&#8217;s what the law does: Extends the $8,000 first-time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: A Housing &#8220;Mini-boom&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bobstahl.topproducerblogs.com/?p=396</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday I blogged about the fact that home prices rose in Phoenix for the third straight month since August 2006. But there&#8217;s more good news: the number of home sales was up, too &#8212; across the nation, actually &#8212; leading one real estate expert to dub this a real estate &#8220;mini-boom.&#8221; &#8220;There&#8217;s a mini-boom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Phoenix Home Prices Rise for Third Straight Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home prices rose in the Phoenix area for the third straight month in August ­ &#8211; a sign that the real estate market may well have hit bottom and caught the recovery wind. According to the S&#38;P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the median price of resold homes in the Phoenix area was up 1.6% in August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: October Phoenix and Scottsdale Real Estate Market Update</title>
		<link>http://bobstahl.topproducerblogs.com/?p=394</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobstahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided again this month to look to Trulia to help me give you a more a detailed analysis of what™s going on in the Phoenix and Scottsdale real estate markets. A couple of notes: Median sales price, recently sold, and foreclosures numbers are based on public records Average listing price, homes for sale and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Bidding Wars? Again? How to Write an Offer that Gets Accepted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few months, I&#8217;ve been reading scattered reports that bidding wars are back in some areas of the Valley &#8212; where prices have made homes so affordable that investors are once again flooding the markets and sparking bidding wars for the best properties. We&#8217;re in no way back to the boom-time days of getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Are Buyers Buying?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a word: Yes! The anecdotal evidence I&#8217;m listing a house for a friend in Queen Creek, one of Phoenix&#8217;s &#8220;bedroom&#8221; communities &#8211; hit particularly hard by the real estate crash.   She&#8217;s short-selling her house because it&#8217;s worth about $150,000, but she owes $290,000. When we were making a listing plan the other day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Think You Don&#8217;t Need an Inspection on a New Home?  Think Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine lying awake at night listening to your brand new, $357,000, golf course home cracking.   Or needing to replace the roof on your new home even before you replace its light bulbs.  Or being forced to move out &#8211; just months after you moved in &#8211; because of toxic mold growing in your new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: Should You Continue to Pay for a Home When You Owe More than it&#8217;s Worth?</title>
		<link>http://bobstahl.topproducerblogs.com/?p=389</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I just wrote a response to a Realtor.com &#8220;Hot Topic&#8221; &#8211; about what goes in to your credit score and how it affects you as a home buyer.   But their most recent hot topic was too interesting to pass up.   The question: &#8220;Should you continue to pay for a home where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Real Estate Blog: What Affects a Homeowner&#8217;s Credit Rating?</title>
		<link>http://bobstahl.topproducerblogs.com/?p=388</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Realtor.com asked &#8220;Do you know what affects a homeowner&#8217;s credit rating?&#8221;   It&#8217;s a good question &#8211; and an important topic &#8211; so I thought I&#8217;d blog about it today. The most commonly used credit scoring method is the FICO score.   There are 5 factors that are used to determine your FICO [...]]]></description>
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