{"id":246,"date":"2012-05-08T05:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T00:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allphoenixareahomes.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2013-10-26T04:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T23:09:56","slug":"prices-moving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Prices Moving UP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with national housing news is that housing has always been a local market issue \u00e2\u20ac\u201c never a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153national\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one.\u00c2\u00a0 Home sales in Georgia have very little to do with home sales in Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 So when the chief economist for Zillow, Dr. Stan Humphries states on April 25<sup>th<\/sup> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For people who have been waiting to time their home purchases close to the market bottom, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to start shopping\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; is it really time?\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/house-with-arrow-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-247\" title=\"house with arrow up\" src=\"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/house-with-arrow-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The answer depends on where you live.\u00c2\u00a0 For those of us dwelling in the valley, the time to buy \u00e2\u20ac\u0153at bottom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d passed in October of 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 Does that mean that it is a bad time to buy now?\u00c2\u00a0 Of course not \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in fact with prices going up at the moment at around <em>3% per month<\/em> it would be beyond wise to shop sooner rather than later!\u00c2\u00a0 Combine that with historically low interest rates and affordability is unlikely to be this good for years and years.\u00c2\u00a0 So buyers, if you can and wish to buy &#8211; do so immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 Supply is continuing to drop and prices are continuing their crawl out of the deepest and longest hole we have personally ever seen.\u00c2\u00a0 Sellers, this is the time you have waited so long for \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the return of price appreciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with national housing news is that housing has always been a local market issue \u00e2\u20ac\u201c never a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153national\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one.\u00c2\u00a0 Home sales in Georgia have very little to do with home sales in Arizona.\u00c2\u00a0 So when the chief economist for Zillow, Dr. Stan Humphries states on April 25th \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For people who have been waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nohasslelistingblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}