An Avnet Inc. CIO, an owner of a grocery and pharmacy chain, a former NBA player and a president of a gas station corporation are among the buyers and sellers in this weeks done deals.

$4,100,000.

Ralph Thomas and his wife Carolee of Beverly Hills, Calif. purchased this 6,711 square-foot home with 700 square-foot pool originally built in 1981 in the Finisterre Area of Paradise Valley northeast of the Camelback Mountain-Echo Canyon Recreation Area. The sellers were Robert W. Mason and Eloise A. Mason, as Trustees of the Robert W. Mason and Eloise A. Mason Trust. Robert Mason is a former CIO of Cendant Corp. who became vice president/CIO of Avnet Inc. in March 2002.

RISMEDIA, March 14, 2007-Unusual weather patterns and problems in the subprime lending marketplace are creating challenges in assessing housing market conditions, but a recovery is likely this year, according to the latest forecast by the National Association of
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Staring down a stack of densely worded loan documents can be one of life’s scariest, and sometimes most baffling, moments.

And when mortgage-broker fees take a dramatic upward swing at the end of the transaction, it’s often hard to figure out what happened or why. “It’s like being sick but not knowing why you’re sick. You only know something is wrong, but you are not sure what it is,” says Sean Moore, a 29-year-old financial adviser from Seattle who still wonders what happened with his first home loan from five years ago.