Blog of Craig's Arizona

Each year, I work on my business plan and I do a review of the previous year to help me create direction for the next year.  Here are some of the stats I collect that might be of interest.

In 2009, there were:

91,651 Residential Real Estate Sales
Average Days on Market was 108 Days
$87.63 per sq ft [...]

My friends over at the Cromford Report have posted their December 2009 Market Analysis in the members only section and I’m posting the high-lights here for your enjoyment and monthly statistical real estate fix:

Annual sales have risen to 92,435, a number that we haven’t seen since June 2006.
December sales came in at 7,723 a 3.7% [...]

Forbes.com published their list of the 40 safest cities in America.  They took the 40 largest cities and looked at data from crime stats, work-place deaths, traffic deaths, and natural disaster risk .  While we weren’t the safest city out there, we did come in at 14th, just above Chicago.

I have to agree, I do think [...]

Today’s discouraging article on azcentral.com pushed me to run some reports.  You won’t often find me reporting statistics on this site because they are just too general.  Each person and each neighborhood are different and I generally work at that level with my clients.  My view of the data is slightly different and pretty much [...]