Arizona's Greatest Depression: 70% of Phoenix Area Homes Underwater

02-10-2011 • Bizjournals.com

Nearly 70 percent of all homes with a mortgage in Phoenix area were under water at the end of 2010, according to online real estate marketplace Zillow.com.

CoreLogic: Arizona home values fall 11% in 2010

02-10-2011 • bizjournals.com

Data released Tuesday from CoreLogic shows home values in Arizona declined in 2010 at twice the national rate, and metro Phoenix had the biggest loss among the top 10 metro areas in the U.S.

Phoenix-area foreclosures spike in January

02-10-2011 • AZcentral.com

Foreclosure activity returned with a vengeance to the Phoenix-area housing market in January after slowing down considerably in the waning months of 2010, according to an Arizona State University resale-home market report issued Wednesday.

Phoenix Median Home Price Could Dip To $100,000 In 3 Months

02-08-2011 • AZcentral.com

The service that lists Phoenix-area homes for sale is expecting the median home-sale price to drop as low as $100,000 during the next three months.

Hands-Only CPR Workshops (Free)

02-07-2011 • Scottsdale.gov

Scottsdale, AZ: Learn from Scottsdale Fire Department how to save the life of a loved one, coworker or a stranger in cardiac arrest by using a new Hands-Only CPR technique. This new technique is easy, safe, and does not require mouth to mouth co

Lawsuit against city alleges 'Baseline Killer' could have been stopped

02-04-2011 • www.azfamily.com

The husband of one of the victims of the so-called 'Baseline Killer' is suing the City of Phoenix saying the killer could have been stopped sooner. Mike Watkiss reports.

Sheeple With Cash Think The Phoenix Housing Market Has Hit Bottom

02-04-2011 • MyBudget360.com

Phoenix real estate market being held up by all cash buyers – 47 percent of Phoenix sales were from all cash buyers in December.

December 2010: Phoenix Home Prices Drop 8% From One Year Ago

02-03-2011 • AZcentral.com

The median price for homes in December was $114,000, down from $122,300 the month before. The median price had remained between $122,000 and $135,000 since 2009.

Landmark Resort Hit By Depression: Arizona Biltmore Bankrupt

02-02-2011 • AZcentral.com

In a strategic move by its new ownership group to get a fresh financial start, the Arizona Biltmore, one of Phoenix's oldest and most iconic resorts, has gone into bankruptcy.

Arizona Senator "Sieg" Kyle May Retire

02-02-2011 • AZcentral.com

"The old cliche is that it's really hard to give up that kind of power once you have it," said Bruce Merrill, a veteran political scientist and professor emeritus at Arizona State University.

Winter storms affecting Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

02-01-2011 • www.bizjournals.com

Travelers are being grounded as cities across the country gear up for massive winter storms.

Arizona city plans to fingerprint pharmacy customers

02-01-2011 • Rawstory

An Arizona city's proposed law requiring people buying certain drugs to be fingerprinted has civil liberties advocates concerned about what they say is an unwarranted intrusion on privacy rights. Facing a growing problem with prescription fraud, t

Foreclosures: Arizona Using $125 Million in Fed. Money Saves 1 Home

01-31-2011 • HousingDoom.com

Of the 1,055 Arizona home owners who have applied, only one has qualified for help from the program. A National Bank borrower is slated to get $40,000 knocked off a distressed home loan.

Phoenix-Area Real-Estate Market Facing Stark New Reality

01-30-2011 • AZcentral.com

Foremost among them is a much higher ratio of renters to homeowners than the Phoenix area has seen in recent decades.

Phoenix Led The Nation In Bank Repossessions For 2010

01-29-2011 • thetruthaboutmortgage.com/

The hard-hit region led the nation in homes actually lost to foreclosure, and saw the numbers rise 17 percent from 2009.

Russell Pearce Recall Paperwork Filed by Anti-Pearce Group

01-28-2011 • Feathered Bastard

On the day that state Senator Russell Pearce's insidious, anti-American, and unconstitutional plot to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment was being submitted in the state legislature by his cronies

REPEAL? AZ State Legiscritters Want Photo Ticketing Ban?

1-28-2010 • CameraFRAUD

(From the 'about damn time' department...) SB 1352 appears to be written as a photo ticketing "doomsday" bill, effectively ending the business practices of two of the largest photo radar companies on their corporate home turf. Too good to be true

Mindless Propaganda: Phoenix Housing Market Prices to Recover by 2015

01-28-2011 • AZcentral.com

The latest forecasts for the housing market's recovery have been pushed out by another year because of slower-than-expected job and population growth and a bigger glut of home foreclosures than anyone expected.

A Frightening Satellite Tour Of America's Top 20 Foreclosure Wastelands

01-27-2011 • BusinessInsider.com/

For a frightening way to visualize the foreclosure crisis, we're borrowing a Google maps technique described by Barry Ritholtz. The satellite map of Phoenix, Arizona gives you a good idea what the other 19 foreclosure maps look like...

Phoenix, Arizona: Housing Prices Hit New Post Bubble Low

01-27-2011 • AZcentral.com

For more than 18 months, local real-estate analysts believed they had called the bottom of the housing market back in April 2009.

Lawmakers approve bill to let Glendale steal Tohono O'odham land

01-25-2011 • Capitol Media Services

With only 1 Republican opposed, the state House voted to let Glendale annex land now owned by the Tohono O'odham Nation in a last-ditch bid to prevent the tribe from building a casino there. The 39-21 vote came over the objections of Rep. Eddie Farns

Defense calls death accident, not 'honor killing'

01-24-2011 • AP

Prosecutor Laura Reckart told them that Falel Almaleki was increasingly incensed at his daughter's failure to obey him. She told jurors in her opening statement in his murder trial that he believed she had dishonored the family by becoming too Wester