February 2016

        The harder I work, the luckier I get.  Samuel Goldwyn     2016 Starts off Slower Than Usual as Economic Concerns Grow Credit Suisse   February 8th, 2016 Research Analysts Michael Dahl Homebuilding & Building Products 212-325-5882 michael.dahl@credit-suisse.com Matthew Bouley 212-325-8572 matthew.bouley@credit-suisse.com. January Survey of Real Estate Agents: 2016 Starts off Slower …

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          You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky     Weekly Apartment Closing  Update  and map for apartments for sale  Phoenix AZ  Metro –  through February  5, 2016.   http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=09602e5d-38e2-43a4-bf9a-c078c73c898a&c=d05b5730-3389-11e3-b1f0-d4ae5275396f&ch=d1074ea0-3389-11e3-b3a6-d4ae5275396f     Kasten Long Commercial Group tracks all advertised apartment communities, including those advertised by other …

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          Feb 9, 2016 Tim Noonan Neither advisors nor their clients should try to bet the ranch on any one market cycle. f you or your clients are feeling rattled by the markets so far this year – consider yourself normal. When the markets get messy like this, generally it’s because investors have lost …

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          “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein   10 December 2015 2015 NAR Issue Brief / Legislative & Regulatory Year in Review During the 114 th Congress, NAR’s legislative and regulatory agenda continued to focus on creating a fundamentally sound and robust …

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      “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” – Albert Einstein   Feb 9, 2016, 7:03am MST Eric Jay Toll Reporter Phoenix Business Journal Among states with state income taxes, Arizona has the third lowest rate for high-income earners. Arizona’s top 4.54 percent tax rate kicking in for taxable earnings over $300,000 annually …

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    The most effective way to do it, is to do it.  Amelia Earhart   NREI Staff,    Jan 19, 2016 The latest readings are out for the Moody’s/RCA, Green Street and CoStar commercial real estate price indices. All three showed prices increasing for the time period they measured. Here are some takeaways from each …

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        Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. Bernard Baruch   Jan 21, 2016 Michael Steinberg and Barbara Byrne Denham Leading up to the economic downturn in 2008, retail was the only property type to experience a significant inventory increase. Between 2000 and 2008, total retail …

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        Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   The city of will invest $500,000 in workforce training funds. Phoenix was selected after a multi-state site selection competition. The win is an expansion of the company’s 500-employee workforce in the Valley, …

The city of Phoenix is on the verge of landing 1,000 new jobs and a $23.7 million expansion of Farmers Insurance Exchange in North Phoenix. Read More »

    “My best successes came on the heels of failures.” — Barbara Corcoran, businesswoman   02/03/2016 02:35 pm ET Carolyn Bass Writer, traveler, foodie, Tucson is a bad-ass town. There. I said it. From the early days farming the desert along the Santa Cruz River, to later years fighting off Apache raiders, to recent years …

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          “Don’t let being a woman hold you back from the leader that you’re destined to be.” — Jamie Farsnel, Due     Feb 3, 2016, 9:38pm MST Updated Feb 5, 2016, 11:01am MST When Arizona’s new AZ MERIT test scores were released last October, everyone knew the scores would be lower …

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