You have to give it to them. Despite upcoming triple digit temperatures, the Phoenix Bike Community never stops peddling.” ~ Me, in 2012. I wrote that in a post just over a year ago (“Can we measure distance in miles per doughnut?“) and the (then) upcoming Celebration of the city’s growing bike scene, as an …
Read MoreGet Your PHX: Public Market Cafe 0
Special thanks to Duc Laio for hosting the May Get Your PHX. This was probably the most heart-warming event we’ve had. Duc and his wife Noelle are doubling down on Downtown and investing so much of their heart, soul and resources in to Scratch French Pastry at 2nd St and Roosevelt. They shared this with us and …
Read MoreLiberals are Wrong About Climate Change 1
So, do I have your attention? What liberals and climate change “believers” have wrong* is (1) how they treat climate change skeptics and (2) to whom they are speaking. I was confronted last weekend with a shocking and revealing experience. In an unrelated conversation with a person I have always regarded as an intelligent critical …
Read MoreJune 21: Summer Solstice Celebration at Phx Central Library 0
Did you know the largest reading room in North America is at Phoenix Burton Barr Central Library? Get yourself over to the 43,000 square reading room on the fifth floor of the library and witness the precise moment of the summer solstice. Folks, this is one of those “hidden secrets” of Phoenix that …
Read MoreThe Rainbow Slide: 2013 PPSF Predictions 0
“Whipeeeeeeee!” or “Whoaaaaaaaa!” Every square in this rainbow slide (not the one on the left, though that does look like fun. I mean every square in the image below) represents a month—January, February, March—all going up. This covers central phoenix and downtown zip codes, historic and older neighborhoods. One vertical stack of those boxes adds …
Read MoreTrending Urban Density 0
For the last month or so, I walked you through a 5-part series on the current state of the market. Today, we’re going to take a giant leap up. Welcome to… The Macro-Macro View This slide is from the Brooking’s Institute. It’s a very new thing. Very new information. It’s about migration of people into …
Read MoreTown Criers: From Whence do They Come? (Analysis – part 5) 1
Are they just uninformed people? Those who declare “The Bubble is coming! The Bubble is coming!”? We know we’re not in a bubble, based on the first four parts of this series, but where do the voices of doom come from? I’ll tell you something: earlier this year, before I sat down and took a …
Read MoreWelcome to recovery mode (Analysis – part 4) 1
After the bubble comes the recovery. In part 3 of my series on why we’re not in a bubble, you saw how non-distressed homes are taking on a greater role in the market. The final bit of proof that we’re not in a bubble goes like this… The chart below is from part 1 of …
Read MoreMay 2013 Get Your PHX: Scratch French Cafe 0
Thanks again to our friend Laura Dragon of {9}TheGallery the folks at Bragg’s Pie Factory Diner , Chris Klein and Chris Duran of Glass Lab/Metal Lab, Beatrice Moore, the Grande Dame of Grand Ave and Jen Urso of Frontal Lobe Community Art Space. We had a wonderful time and learned so much! This may be a red letter day in Phoenix. Well, …
Read MoreThat’s no Bubble, That’s My Life (analysis, part 3) 2
Last week, I promised to show you the real kicker. Here it is: Non distressed homes are taking on a greater role in the market. The distressed houses are going away. What did the line look like for non-distressed homes? These are people who didn’t necessarily lose their home but their values went down. Watch …
Read MoreReturn of the Equity Seller (Analysis, part 2) 3
In Part 1 of my “Riding the Rollercoaster” post from last week, I hope I made it clear what a normal market looks like, why it’s important to remember that the market is a function of supply and demand, and why price is a trailing factor running two months behind the market. A person’s natural question …
Read MoreMarket Analysis: Riding the Rollercoaster (part 1) 4
The market price is a function of supply and demand. ~ Tina Tamboer-Glatfelter, Cromford Report “oh, oh! It’s going up! It’s going up!” ”Oh, no! Now it’s going down, it’s going down!” It sounds simple, but people get sucked up in the passions of the moment. They forget that price is a …
Read MoreWhy Home Values are Higher Near Light Rail 0
We’ve known it intuitively and anecdotally for a long time, but here is some great news that proves it: home values next to light rail are stronger. In a recent blog by Michael Melaniphy (President and CEO, American Public Transportation Association (APTA)) he said: “Average sales prices for residences in close proximity to high-frequency public transit …
Read MoreMarket Conditions: April 2013 0
You’ve heard me going on about how prices are up and I told you they were going up two years ago. Okay. Enough of that crowing, Clark. Let’s talk about what this means. See the 3-month moving average for per square foot home prices in the downtown and CenPho neighborhoods, above. The 6-month moving average …
Read MoreApril 2013 Get Your PHX: Grand Openings on Grand 1
Join us at the April Get Your PHX for a tour of new and soon-to-be-opened hotspots on Grand Ave. You will get to be in the know before your friends! Our friend Laura Dragon of {9}TheGallery will serve as our host for a tour of new features on Grand. Laura will start the show at …
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