The residents of Arizona can take advantage of seven financial incentives for using renewable energy:
1. Green Building Incentive – The Green Building incentive was created to encourage environmentally responsible building. If you live in Scottsdale or Buckeye and build your home to the green standards given in the Green Home Rating Checklist, you can [...]

Moving to Arizona from another state? Choosing a long distance Arizona Real Estate consultant is much easier these days because of the Internet, but can also be scary and overwhelming if you aren’t sure what to look for and what questions to ask.  Below are some factors to consider:
1. Narrow down [...]

A new national study estimates that more than 350,000 recent first-time homebuyers have been enticed by the $8,000 federal tax credit this year.
The Campbell Communications survey was done by calculating the number of first-time homebuyers before and after the tax credit was instituted.
The study was done to support legislative efforts to extend the federal house [...]

Arizona homebuyers trying to tap federal funds to help them purchase foreclosure homes might find it a little easier now.
Mortgage giant Fannie Mae recently launched a program called “First Look” that bars investors for bidding on its foreclosure homes for the first 15 days they go on the market. In metropolitan Phoenix, first-time buyers typically [...]

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With Arizona foreclosures up by 600% since 2005, realtors are seeing more and more foreclosed homes being stripped right down to the bare walls. It is estimated that 85 to 90 percent of foreclosed houses under $200,000 have been stripped.    Homeowners are taking carpet, tile, cabinets, sinks, light fixtures and even door knobs.  Many of [...]

Arizona financial regulator and veteran fraud prosecutor, Felecia Rotellini is running for state attorney general. She filed paperwork to launch her campaign for the 2010 race yesterday.
 Rotellini,a Democrat, was most recently Superintendent of the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions. She led the movement to establish the Arizona Mortgage Fraud Task Force and investigated and sanctioned [...]

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is in Washington D.C. meeting with regulators on strategies to fight mortgage fraud.
This morning Goddard, along with 11 other state attorney generals, met with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder,  Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz and Financial [...]

Six of Arizona’s “housing heroes” were honored at the state’s housing conference on Tuesday. Here are this year’s winners of the Brian Mickelsen awards for helping the state’s residents quality of life with better housing:
Elected official: Gov. Jan Brewer was chosen for helping the Housing Department keep resources from its Housing Trust Fund during difficult [...]

The Arizona Housing Alliance’s Faces of Affordable Housing will focus on successful projects for low- and moderate-income residents across the state as well as the need for more of those developments during these tough economic times.
The early evening event is being held at the Marriott-Buttes resort on Sept. 15th. The Arizona Governors Housing Forum will be [...]