One of the great ways to end a week is with a new listing. I've got one if you care to take a look: http://tinyurl.com/Willow6200

Here's what else happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here.

Monthly Flagstaff Home Sales Report

Are you planning your weekend in Flagstaff, AZ? Check out these things to do in Flagstaff.

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here.

Great day! New listing to work on, social hour with a great group of RE/MAX agents, and a super golf lesson. What could be better?

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here.

Did you see the Clint Eastwood Super Bowl commercial? (Actually, it was a Chrysler commercial, but who knew until the end - now forgotten).

The Numbers Behind that Clint Eastwood Commercial

Meanwhile, here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

As usual, last week's schedule of Coconino County trustee sales was fairly long; however, the actual sales were few, as shown below. Several third-party bidder came in for the opportunity. Look for the others to appear in MLS as bank-owned properties. The ones of the original list but not on the list at the end of the week may appear again -- they are probably working on loan modifications or short sales.

Zuniga        Lot 9, Ponderosa Trails 1            Third Party Bidder            $190,000.00

Edington    Portion Lots 18-21,Blk 19, Williams  Wells Fargo Bank        $68,000.00

Multiple timeshares. in Sedona

Kellogg    Lot 339, Railroad Springs 3        Bank of America                $139,245.40

Lobato    Portion Sec. 26,T22N,R8E        US Bank National Association        $267,828.83

Whatley        Lot 7, Timberview Village      Bank of America        $77,506.46

Ornelas        Lot 54, Greenlaw 1               Third Party Bidder        $111,101.00

Are you looking for some things to do in Flagstaff this weekend? Just click that link!

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

My other blogsite has been under attack all day so I haven't been able to post! Ugh!

Meanwhile, here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

I noticed an interesting article on Inman News today. It's a little wordy, but I pulled the most signifcant language from it to quote in my other blog: "Note to "lowballers: If you don't actually secure the home, the superlow price you offered is no deal at all."

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

Look at all those expired listings! (Of them, I only found 2 I'd like to list).

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here. (January sales report coming next week)

A full day in Flagstaff real estate!

Here was this morning's news:

U.S. house prices slide 1.3% in November according to the index Wall Street loves.

Meanwhile, here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

Another beautiful day in Flagstaff and a busy opening to the week in real estate. My opening blog post for the week:

Let's Get Some Perspective on the Flagstaff Housing Market!

And here's what happened in the last 24 hours in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

This past week's schedule of Coconino County trustee sales was again fairly long; however, the actual sales, as usual, were fewer, as shown below. Most reverted to the banks holding the loan but one third-party bidder came in for the opportunity. Look for the reversions to appear in MLS as bank-owned properties. The ones of the original list but not on the list at the end of the week may appear again -- they are probably working on loan modifications or short sales.

Howell        Portion Sec.25,T21N,R7E        Bank of New York Mellon    $125,000.10

Gardner        Lot 69, Foxglenn                Cenlar FSB                           $218,778.00

Love            Lot 953, Howard Mesa Ranch 3    Private Lender                $47,214.22 

Black        Lot 1, Walker heights                   Third Party Bidder           $148,000.00 

TA Properties    Lot 4, Rio de Flag Business  JPMorgan Chase            $220,945.49 

Aguinaga          Lot 80, Greenlaw   3             Flagstar Bank                $175,100.00 

Baecker          Lot 390, Ponderosa Trails 5    Ocwen Loan Servicing    $268,510.00 

Kapral            Lot 48, Kachina Village 14       US Bank NA                $96,000.00

Missed my nightly clip of the Northern Arizona MLS because I attended the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra performance (which was great, by the way). The clip below is what's happened in the last 24 hours as of mid-day on Saturday. Meanwhile, if you're looking for some things to do for the rest of the weekend in Flagstaff, here are some suggestions for fun (I hear that Cabaret is really good!)

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

Beautiful day to be out looking at a townhome on the lake, which is what I was doing in Flagstaff today! Lots of other stuff related to Flagstaff real estate, too.

Today's other blog posts:

Pending Home Sales Decline in December, Remain Above a Year Ago

Obama Mortgage Plan Would Broaden Government-Backed Loans to Privately-Financed Outstanding Debt

Meanwhile, here's what happened in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

My thought for the day is about setting, and re-setting, the list price of your home. Inspired by Carl Richards' blog.

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

Monday in my Flagstaff real estate: following up on leads, printing the monthly newsletter, catching up on the market and economic news, honing that listing presentation, meet and greet fund-raiser for city council candidate, and a blog post about one of the many reasons to live in Flagstaff, AZ.

Meanwhile, here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

Looking for some things to do this weekend in Flagstaff? Here you go: Flagstaff weekend events.

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

Busy day in Flagstaff real estate for me, including 3 hours of continuing ed on appaisal issues. (Boy, am I glad I am not an appraiser!)  Also, signed up another home sale contract and wrote this blog post about an AP story on the current Phoenix real estate market:

Phoenix Housing Market Flat in 2011

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

Took advantage of Flagstaff's proximity to Sedona for a little rec time today between marketing work in the morning and negotiating an offer in the afternoon. Nice day!

Here's today's other blog post:

Rumors of Flagstaff Housing Recovery

And, here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Busy day for this Flagstaff real estate agent! Attended two meetings -- at least one more than I like to do in a week, unless those meetings are with my real estate clients!. But I got an interesting graphic about mortgage rates from one of them. Here's the blog post about that:

Mortgage Rates Make This a Fantastic Time to Buy

Meanwhile, here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”

– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

That is surely the most well-known of Mr. King's statements. My favorite is longer, but you might find it worth reading. It was written while he was in a Birmingham, AL jail cell in 1963:

“I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statements in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms….I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here I am here because I have organizational ties here. …But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

“You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.

“You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling, for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent-resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, we must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise….

“Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

“But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"….. Then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.

“I must make two honest confessions to you….First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

“…we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured….

“….We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this 'hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

“But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label….So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?”

You can read King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail, written in 1963, in its entirety here: http://abacus.bates.edu/admin/offices/dos/mlk/letter.html

Today's new listings include several townhomes in a Flagstaff development that went under a few years ago. A new builder has taken them over and construction is underway, including completion of some of the shells that sat abandoned since 2008. Good news!

Here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!

Latest Flagstaff home sales report here.

This past week's schedule of Coconino County trustee sales was fairly long; however, the actual sales, as usual, were fewer, as shown below. Most reverted to the banks holding the loan but one third-party bidder came in for the opportunity. Look for the reversions to appear in MLS as bank-owned properties. The ones of the original list but not on the list at the end of the week may appear again -- they are probably working on loan modifications or short sales.

Harris            Lot 45, Switzer Terrace 1                First National Bank of AZ                $182,750.00

McIntyre        Lot 86, Peak View Meadows 3        Third Party Bidder                           $203,600.00

Guerry        Lot 1, Timber Ridge Ranch                Deutsche Bank National Trust        $56,250.00  

Calkins        Portion Sec. 14,T22N,R8e                CitiMortgage, Inc.                           $81,519.19         

Multiple time-shares in Sedona.  

Cano        Lot 605, Ponderosa Trails 4            Western Federal CU        $399,444.76

McGrath    Lot 113, Pinewood 16                Bank of America        $419,850.00

Downing    Lot 762, Kachina Village 6        Bank of America        $87,648.35

Planning your weekend in Flagstaff, AZ? Here are some suggestions for things to do in Flagstaff this weekend!

I posted two other items today, one summarizing an interesting article from MarketWatch.com about themes we can expect to hear in housing news and commentary in 2012. The other is my monthly report on Flagstaff home sales with the December statistical table.

Meanwhile, here's what happened today in Northern Arizona real estate:

This information is complied by and based upon multiple-listing-service data from the Northern Arizona Association of Realtors® and is deemed reliable for sales reported to the association, but is not guaranteed and does not include all sales in the market area. This information covers all areas of Northern Arizona including Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Winslow, Ashfork, Munds Park, that part of Sedona which is in Coconino County and other places too! Search the Northern Arizona MLS for your next Flagstaff home here!