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What's Your Strategy Today?

<b>What's Your Strategy Today?</b>

May 9, 2012

Style matters more today than ever before, according to the more than 20,000 people who took our survey this year on "What Does Style Mean to You?" Take a look at what this huge sample of consumers rated as the most important characteristics when purchasing their next home: "Home Design" rivals "Location" for the #1 position, while "Price" ranked #4.

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Housing in One Graphic

May 3, 2012

The following graphic summarizes the U.S. housing market. The red boxes are a small percentage of the total, yet are receiving all the media and political attention.

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Let's not forget the overwhelming positives:

Phoenix is Rising

April 27, 2012
By: Adam Artunian, Senior Research Analyst

The Phoenix housing market is on fire, driven by strong economic growth, once in a generation affordability levels, and a surge in investment activity that far surpasses the levels during the housing boom. Once considered to be at ground zero of the housing market collapse, Phoenix has orchestrated a dramatic turnaround in recent months and has considerably outpaced other distressed markets such as Las Vegas, Riverside-San Bernardino and Sacramento. Phoenix was one of the hardest hit housing markets during the bust, with home values declining 57% from 2006 through mid-2011.