Between 1992 and 2001, median compensation for Standard and Poor’s 500 more than tripled, but growth in CEO pay was relatively flat before 1992 and after 2001. This longstanding puzzle was explored in research presented at the 2015 ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference, hosted by the W. P. Carey School.
U.S. News & World Report Money published a story on January 30, 2015, about ways to get around a dismal credit rating if you want to buy a house. Mike Orr, director of the Center for real Estate Theory and Practice, weighed in on seller financing.
Reporting on President Barack Obama’s January 8 visit to Phoenix, USA Today quoted Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice, on the president’s announcement that FHA mortgage insurance rates will drop.
The Phoenix metro area has a history of rapid price increases and breath-taking drops, so to longtime observers the currently calm market may seem — well — dull. But experts at the “Phoenix Housing Market Explained III,” hosted by the W. P. Carey School of Business and The Arizona Republic on January 17, said the time for optimism is here.
After slumbering for more than a year the Phoenix real estate market is finally producing some cause for optimism. Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business, described the landscape for residential housing, both single family and apartments.
There has been little change in the Greater Phoenix real estate market for the last year, and the October numbers show a continuation of the trend, according to Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business. The median single-family-home sales price went up just 4 percent from last October to this October – from $200,000 to $208,000. Demand remains lower than last year, with sales of single-family homes down 5 percent from last October. With the New Year just days away, we asked Orr what it would take to give the market a strong start in 2015.
