The Dealmakers/Falling in love with the right home

People have been moving this year—literally. By Jordan Rose, president and founder of Rose Law Group, and Jim Belfiore, president and founder of Belfiore Real Estate Consulting | East Valley Tribune More Arizonians have purchased homes this year than during any year since 2007. Phoenix and its suburbs, alone, will have recorded nearly 100,000 resale home transactions and another 23,000 …

See who attended Phoenix Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 awards dinner

  Phoenix Business Journal Forty of the Valley’s most promising ‘rock star’ executives were honored Aug. 2 at the Phoenix Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 awards dinner. Some 400 attendees gathered at the sold-out event at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess hotel. The event was co-hosted by PBJ Editor in Chief Greg Barr and Mix 96.9FM radio personality Priscilla Ornelas. The presenting sponsor for …

[EXCLUSIVE] Court rules Pinal County Transportation Tax can’t just tax retailers; appeal likely to follow. 

(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussions purposes only.)  Rose Law Group Reporter Staff In an opinion unlikely to satisfy either party, the Arizona Tax Court ruled Wednesday the voter-approved sales tax for Pinal County roadways is invalid because it doesn’t apply to non-retail businesses. The Goldwater Institute challenged the tax saying it was unconstitutional. The court didn’t find it …

New Phoenix home development to extend road to Camelback Ranch; Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group founder and president, talks to YourValley.net about case

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Mattamy Homes By Mark Carlisle | YourValley.net A recently approved Phoenix housing development will fund the extension of the road that leads to Camelback Ranch about a mile north to Maryland Avenue in Glendale. The 67-acre, 207-home development, north of Camelback Ranch-Glendale and just east of the Glendale-Phoenix border from the Glendale Municipal Airport originally …

An unlikely group of billionaires and politicians has created the most unbelievable tax break ever; O-zones ‘a bright light,’ says Rose Law Group founder and president Jordan Rose

By Steve Bertoni | Forbes Success Street in North Charleston, South Carolina, might be the most misnamed place in America, a path through a weedy, desolate neighborhood with 20% unemployment and a 40% poverty rate. Its biggest claim to fame strolls past the gritty brick apartment buildings and tumbledown bungalows on a muggy morning in late June: Timothy Scott, a …

Waiting for state sober living home rules, cities add their own restrictions; Jordan Rose, founder and president of Rose Law Group, weighs in

By Lily Altavena | Arizona Republic Arizona cities are in sober living home purgatory. And so are the homes. This spring, state legislators passed a law requiring sober living homes to secure licensing with the Arizona Department of Health Services. But that agency still has about 18 months of work left to get a licensing system up and running, according to Mesa Mayor John …

Phoenix okays Mattamy Homes plan for Camelback Ranch master community

Rose Law Group Reporter staff (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Mattamy Homes.) The Phoenix City Council on Wednesday voted 7-0 to change the General Plan and 6-1 to change the zoning to permit Mattamy Homes to move forward and develop its Camelback Ranch, 199-lot master-planned community. This site is approximately 66 acres adjacent to the Camelback Ranch spring training facility, …

Mortgages: Come full circle?

By Jim Belfiore and Jordan Rose | East Valley Tribune Anyone who owned a home a decade ago knows a little something about how housing values can fluctuate. Prior to 2006, most U.S. homeowners thought home values went only one direction: up. Sure, some years prices moderated, but generally, they went up 3 percent to 5 percent, and in some …