As the real estate market declines, so does the number of jobs related to the industry. Thus far layoffs among homebuilders have been minimal, and real estate agents say their numbers are still strong.

Craig and Shannon Bohall bought an existing home in Mesa three years ago, and now they have an opportunity to move up to their first brand new home. Their house, near Baseline Road and Val Vista Drive, has five bedrooms, 3 1 /2 bathrooms and lots of amenities. They put their house on the market more than a month ago in hopes of a quick sale so they can close on their new home by mid-November.

National Real Estate Auction Corp. expects to have more 150 properties at the Great Arizona Real Estate Auction on Nov. 23.

Hundreds of Valley real estate agents rallied in Scottsdale on Friday in hopes of kick-starting the sluggish real estate market by thinking positive and being proactive.

The East Valley office market, which started to recover from its turn-of-the-century slump in 2003, continues to catch fire.

The housing market is in a state of flux, but East Valley commercial developer Michael Pollack still sees opportunities for investors — if they’re smart and do their homework.

Cheap real-estate, few natural disasters and other factors have helped keep homeowners-insurance premiums down in Arizona.

Foreclosures continue to pummel the housing market. About a third of all home sales nationwide during April were foreclosures, leading to what analysts call a "double dip" in housing prices.

Is the Valley headed toward the collapse of another real estate bubble?

Trent Powell is a peninsula in what has become a choppier sea in East Valley real estate. He’s stuck among a for sale sign, an unrealistic seller and a leery buyer. In the lucrative game of home sales, he is checkmated. What a difference six months makes. Last summer, the Mesa real estate agent drove with investors through neighborhoods while they snapped up houses in hours or days.

The Valley's struggling real estate market may be on the eve of finally bottoming out, according to a new forecast by real estate brokerage Grubb & Ellis/BRE Land Group.

While home prices in the Valley continue to drop, the commercial real estate market finally seems to have leveled off, according to new reports from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

A 1,414-acre, master-planned community north of Queen Creek Road provides a microcosmic view of the local new home market's journey through the drastic economic downturn and ongoing recovery.

When it comes to gaining a competitive edge in a slow housing market, Scottsdale real estate agent Jean Steed doesn’t rule any idea out.

Nov. 3, 2004

A Southern California real estate developer is sold on the East Valley. Donahue Schriber, wh ich already owns 68 shopping centers — most of them in California — with 13 million square feet of shops, has just bought a shopping center in Gilbert and is building one in Mesa.

A Southern California real estate developer is sold on the East Valley.

Caught in the midst of the housing market turmoil, real estate agent Tina Eacret held out as long as she could — using up her entire savings before deciding to go part time in December.

When Brent Hammonds left the mental health field to become a real estate agent in 2001, he worried about losing the altruism he felt in helping people work through their troubles.

Many Valley real estate experts gave President Barack Obama high marks Wednesday for seriously attacking the foreclosure crisis in his speech at Dobson High School in Mesa.

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With a median-priced home in Scottsdale fetching more than a halfmillion dollars, condominium conversions are a trend that’s hitting the “West’s Most Western Town” in a big way.

Fulton Homes announced the grand opening of its first property to offer move-in costs as low as $750.

One of the Valley's largest commercial and office property developers is continuing to add to its sprawling master-planned business park in Chandler.