Dennis Hoffman, Lee McPheters, and Mark Stapp from ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business addressed all the big issues and provided the first look at the local and national economy in 2018 at the Annual Economic Luncheon.

Most years, the desert heat holds back buyers in the Phoenix real estate market, but not this year. Sales of single family homes were up 20 percent over July of last year, and townhouses rose even more.

The real estate market fluctuates with the seasons, and the lead up to summer — a popular time to move — is usually busy. This year June was the prize-winner with exceptionally strong sales.

As entrepreneurs and small business owners, it’s not what you think that matters, it’s what others think. In a sense, every day is “election day” for your business, because when customers buy or use your product or service it’s as if they were voting for you. So how do attract votes?

There has been little change in the Greater Phoenix real estate market for the last year, and the October numbers show a continuation of the trend, according to Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

The Phoenix metro area has a history of rapid price increases and breath-taking drops, so to longtime observers the currently calm market may seem — well — dull. But experts at the “Phoenix Housing Market Explained III,” hosted by the W. P.

Reporting on President Barack Obama’s January 8 visit to Phoenix, USA Today quoted Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice, on the president’s announcement that FHA mortgage insurance rates will drop.

Surging interest in attached homes has the potential to change the character of the city, adding urban density to the sprawling metro area.

U.S. News & World Report Money published a story on January 30, 2015, about ways to get around a dismal credit rating if you want to buy a house.  Mike Orr, director of the Center for real Estate Theory and Practice, weighed in on seller financing.

The January numbers are out for the Phoenix real estate market and they’re not spectacular. But even when the market is normal, January is slow, says real estate expert Mike Orr. Activity during February and March is signaling growing strength in the market at last.