A day late but hardly a dollar short …

Inventory remained flat across the Phoenix real estate market this past week, with 23,388 single-family detaached homes currently for sale in Maricopa County. Sales over the past 30 days were 5,562 for an overall absorption rate of 4.2 months, down just over a week from last week’s report.

Bank owned inventory is at 1.66 months (3,529 active listings and 2,131 sales), short sales are at 5.34 months (5,704 listings and 1,256 sales) and non-distressed sales are at 6.05 months (13,155 listings and 2,175 sales.)

Anthem remains the strongest market in the Valley (technically that honor goes to Desert Hills, though there’s almost no sample size there) with only 1.91 months of inventory currently available.

El Mirage and Avondale also are under 2.5 months of homes for sale at the current sales pace.

As always, the details for the various cities and towns in the Phoenix real estate market are below. And also as always, all data is provided by the Arizona Regional MLS and is demed reliable but not guaranteed.

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Remember, this is the same place that enjoyed to way too much of a degree the U.S. Hockey Team’s win over Canada in the preliminary round … and then pretended there was a power outage that prevented the Gold Medal game.

Take a quick look at the exchange rates on the right and you’ll see yours truly, with my bold predictions that we’re not going to see the Canadian dollar which par again with the U.S. dollar, was wrong … or at least is on the extreme edge of being wrong.

I’m sure there’s a new prediction I should make to see if I can make the opposite come true … but with great power comes great responsibility, so I’ll want to think this over.

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Market statistics are almost done. There was a bit of a delay caused by children on spring break wanting to spend a little time basking in the sun on this 83-degree day in Phoenix.

Granted we ended up inside a movie theater watching Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief rather than joining the crowd at the Peoria Sports Complex or at another of the area’s spring training ballparks, but that’s another story for another time.

And now that I think about it, it’s not just the kids and the baseball fans at spring training who are doing all the basking …

St. Patrick’s Day isn’t until tomorrow but as a public service announcement, here’s a little bit of green as worn by the casitas in Westbrook Village’s Fairway Ridge.

Now that I think about it, maybe I should take a few steps back from the fence along the 16th hole of the Westbrook Village Lakes course …

That’s a little bit better, especially with a cup of coffee in the morning or perhaps a (virgin) margarita in the afternoon (keeping it clean for the kids, even if they can’t live here.)

Still, maybe we ought to back up a little more, through the house to the front walk …

Not bad, I must say … let’s see how it looks a little further back, just before you get to the casita’s entry gate …

Wait … are these not the views you’ve been enjoying for the past few months? Have you found yourself instead shoveling snow, icing sidewalks and layering your clothes?

There’s a solution, of course. Find your flip-flops and your shorts, then come find this remodeled casita on the golf course in Westbrook Village. This is the way your winter should be.

List price is just $205,000 for nearly 1,500 square feet with the grass at your back …

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Noticed this little add-on buried deep in an e-mail chain from a lender who is two weeks late funding a loan for one of my buyers, even though everything’s been done from the buyers’ end for a month.

I swear if this loan ever funds I never want to hear the name again.

The feeling’s mutual, Ms. Lender. Guaranteed, you’ll never hear from me or one of my clients ever again.

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As we return to some old habits around here, let’s have some music for the weekend.

It’s 67 degrees, the freezer has been defrosted for the first time since I bought it back in 2002, and the mystery lumps in the ice turned out to be ice.

The sun’s shining, the rains of the past two months are in the past and the smell of orange blossoms is in the air.

J.J. Grey, take it away …

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