The Phoenix resale home market rebounded slightly in February, according to the Realty Studies Report from the W. P. Carey School of Business. Compared to January, the number of transactions increased and prices were up a bit.

In the U.S. and around the world, the recession is forcing shopping center developers and retailers to re-think the design of the places where we spend our money. Some say the very nature of shopping has changed.

The latest ASU-Repeat Sales Index suggests that the end of the slide for the beleaguered Phoenix metro real estate market may be in sight, but how close it looks depends on how you parse the numbers.

The numbers are in for real estate activity in the Greater Phoenix area in November 2013, and they show that the cooling that began this summer continued through the first of December. Michael Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P.

Making sense of the Phoenix real estate market requires an understanding of sales data, demographics and trends. On January 25, 2013, the W. P. Carey School of Business and The Arizona Republic assembled a panel of experts, each with depth knowledge of a different facet of the market.

Real estate projects that usually have trouble attracting the interest of banks are gaining momentum with alternative financing tools such as the EB-5 program, the JOBS Act and smaller, specialty lenders.

A group of the Valley’s most successful brokers, meeting at a real estate forum at the W. P. Carey School of Business, agree that although the commercial real estate market is recovering, improvement will be slow.

What will growth in the real estate industry look like post-recession? That depends on a number of factors. Development will be much more focused on fulfilling specific needs and on infill. Development on the periphery will not cease, but it will likely be less grand in volume.

More than two years of rising prices in the Phoenix real estate market appear to be coming to an end, says Michael Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and practice and author of the monthly housing report.

January — usually the slowest month of the year for home sales — turned out to be the second quietest in 14 years.