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Unprecedented real estate development in Graham County continued through 2007.
In the unincorporated areas of the county, 17 subdivisions are in various phases of the approval process, according to information from the Graham County Planning and Zoning Department. Four of those developments were eventually annexed into either the town of Pima or Safford.
Orchard Park and Alder Heights Phase 1 were annexed into Pima after receiving final plat approval from the Graham County Board of Supervisors. Alder Heights Phase 2 was annexed into Pima after receiving pre-plat approval.
Montana Vista Estates was annexed into Safford after it received final plat approval from the Board of Supervisors.
The remaining 13 developments include Sierra del Sol, a 6,432-unit master plan development proposed by Silver-Prina LLC. The development is planned for a 1,700-acre site south of Safford and will be geared to retirees.
The conceptual plan for Sierra del Sol includes trails, parkways, a golf course and commercial property in addition to the residential development.
Ted Prina of Silver-Prina LLC said in March that the preliminary plat could be ready for consideration by the Graham County Planning and Zoning Commission in about eight months.
The county is not alone in grappling with the challenges of residential growth.
The city of Safford issued a record number of permits and completed a record number of building inspections during 2007.
Through Nov. 30, Safford issued 196 permits for single-family houses with a total value of $20.421 million, and 33 commercial permits were issued with a total value of $10.574 million.
A combined total of 297 building permits for residential and commercial projects with a valuation of $32.338 million were issued by the Safford Building Department during the first 11 months of 2007 — the most current information available.
In comparison, only 144 permits with a total value of $20.289 million were issued during the same time period in 2006, according to statistics provided by the city.
To keep pace with the new construction in Safford, the Building Department has increased the number of building inspections it conducts. As of Nov. 30, 2,397 building inspections were conducted, compared to 2,156 during the first 11 months of 2006.
Reader Comments
retired realtor wrote on Jan 5, 2008 10:57 PM:
” Looking Forward… record real estate development in county fails to find record new home buyers in 2008. Lots of vacant lots and filed permits but few completed and occupied homes and sub-divisions. “
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At their annual Christmas event, Realtors with the Black Hills Association of Realtors donated $7,610.00 to two local charities.
The donations were presented to the Rapid City Club for Boys and the Meals On Wheels program.
The Realtors had a cash contribution for event attendance and held a silent auction with more than 50 auction items donated by various Realtor firms, individual Realtors, or affiliate members.
A realtor, showing a house Saturday morning, discovered someone living inside the home.The realtor told police a young man came out of a locked bedroom and said his friend had permitted him to stay at the house. He then left the home on foot.
There was a lawn chair inside the house and several items discarded in a toilet.
The realtor said the “polite” man left behind garbage, soiled clothes and a “foul” smell.
As the nation enters a new year skirting perilously close to recession, Metropolitan Orlando surpasses other areas of the state in the strength of its real-estate market, one of the state’s top private economists said Monday.
Orange County is probably tops in Florida among the 33 counties studied because of a nice mix of “fast-growing industries, such as tourism, health care, education and defense manufacturing,” Orlando economist Hank Fishkind said in an analysis for the Attorney’s Title Insurance Fund.
“It’s the strongest, in part, because of job creation,” Fishkind said of Orange, the largest county in Metro Orlando, which also includes Seminole, Osceola and Lake.
His report predicts that Lake will see the bulk of the metro area’s home starts, more than doubling from 1,213 in 2007 to 2,905 in 2008. That rebound, he said, is mainly because the market skidded to a halt so fast last year.
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City police are looking for a 36-year-old man in connection to a violent attack on a Winnipeg real estate agent — a woman he apparently befriended after enlisting her help to buy a house.
The attack happened Dec. 28 in a second-floor apartment suite in West Kildonan in what police yesterday described as an attempted rape.Const. Jacqueline Chaput said the woman fought with all her might against the man and escaped to call police.
When officers arrived at the block at McGregor Street and Hartford Avenue, the man had fled. Police released his name and photo yesterday, saying he may have already left the province.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Joseph Robert Davis on a charge of sexual assault.
Residents at the block said Davis had lived at the block for about three months and worked as a tow truck driver.Kevin Bain and Raul Campana said they only knew him to say hello and that for the most part he was a quiet tenant.
“It seemed he was always on the run, always something to do,” Bain said.
Both men and other tenants said they were shocked about the allegations as the block and neighbourhood are fairly quiet.
As both men spoke to the media, two officers with the Street Crime Unit circulated a photo of Davis to other tenants.
Chaput said police believe Davis met the agent earlier in the day after he contacted her on the pretext of buying a house. She took him to see several homes throughout the city that day.
That evening Davis is alleged to have called the agent again, saying he wanted to buy one of the houses.
Chaput said shortly after she walked into Davis’ suite to fill out the needed paperwork he attacked her in an attempt to commit a serious sexual assault.
“She fought back very hard,” Chaput said, adding the woman escaped to go to a friend’s to call police. The woman suffered several injuries which required medical care.
Chaput said Davis may have left the province. He also has had contact with police in Quebec and Alberta.Call the sex crimes unit at 986-6245 or Crime Stoppers at 786-TIPS (8477) if you have information about where Davis might be.
Winnipeg police also said citizens should take necessary precautions to ensure their personal safety if they are in contact with Davis.
Peter Squire, director of public affairs for Winnipeg Real Estate Board, said incidents like this are rare.
“She let her guard down, which is only human,” Squire said. “It can be easy for a realtor to let their guard down, because they want to be as accommodating as possible to their clients, and they field so many inquiries.”
Squire stressed all real estate sellers are potentially at risk when meeting a new client, not just women.
The Florida housing market has flattened and is expected to begin its recovery, a report released Monday by Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund showed.
The 2008 Fund Real Estate Forecast shows every county in the Sunshine State experienced a slowdown last year. The markets flattened in spring 2007, before the subprime mortgage crisis in August knocked markets down an additional 10 percent statewide, the report says.
The forecast shows that Orlando continues to be the state’s strongest residential market due to the large number of fast-growing industries, including tourism, health care, education and defense manufacturing.
“Florida has a very large and powerful economy that has gone through a cyclical downshift, but it is still outperforming compared to the rest of the nation,” said economist Hank Fishkind, who created the report, in a news release. “The market has some indigestion now, but housing markets will return to normal during the next few years.”
Fishkind also said recent reductions in home prices come after an unsustainable peak, and that prices are still up considerably compared to 30 years ago. Although loose lending practices and subprime mortgages have caused problems, the state still has the highest level of homeownership ever, he said in the statement.
Orlando-based Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund’s Consumer Education Campaign commissioned the forecast, which is also posted on www.myrealestatestory.com. Fishkind, of Orlando-based Fishkind & Associates, conducted the report using the fund’s online system of deed data for more than 30 Florida counties. The report provides a snapshot of the national economic outlook and 33 county-specific forecasts for 2008 through 2010, as well as a section showing how actual 2007 data compared to projections made in last year’s forecast.