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 Rumblings in the media hint that rising home prices could be the start of a new bubble, but real estate expert Mike Orr says that researchers who are examining the data don’t believe it. Instead, he says Phoenix is experiencing a market come back.

Although many people may find it hard to believe, the Phoenix area is facing a growing housing shortage, according to real estate experts Mike Orr and Mark Stapp from the W. P. Carey School of Business, who were featured speakers at a forum on April 6.

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With prices on the rise and population growing faster than other places, Phoenix is once again looking good to homebuilders. That means land is very desirable — especially lots ready for development. In this podcast, Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W.

Today’s healthcare tab in the U.S. exceeds some $2.5 trillion, and there are plenty of wasted greenbacks in that eye-popping figure. Information technology has the potential to reduce waste, and that’s why Raghu Santanam is researching healthcare uses of IT and their impacts.

Last week the news of Google's new Hummingbird conversational search engine had analysts buzzing. One of the implications is that business users will expect the same capability from their applications. This is exciting – it adds more fuel to the fire of the consumerization of IT trend.

Is the economic recovery already over? Are we heading into another recession? Experts posed these questions to the crowd during a panel discussion about real estate finance hosted by the W. P. Carey School of Business and the ASU Real Estate Council.

Management Professor Suzanne Peterson writes a monthly column on management and leadership in The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. An expert on the behaviors that characterize extraordinary leaders, Peterson offers some insights into time management.

Home prices in Phoenix started to rise from the summer doldrums in September and supply is also increasing, according to the latest Greater Phoenix Housing report from the W. P. Carey School’s Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice.

Things get better -- but not dramatically so -- in 2014, says 2013 Lawrence R. Klein Award winner Dean Maki.