New real estate expert at ASU
Posted January 9th, 2012 by Anthony Boydston
Arizona State University has a new real estate analyst, but he’s no newcomer to metro Phoenix’s housing market.
Mike Orr, publisher of The Cromford Report, the daily online real-estate market analysis for metro Phoenix, has joined the W.P. Carey School of Business. The Oxford University-educated mathematician from England will provide real estate analysis for the university and continue his own real estate report. His new ASU title is director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice.
Jay Butler, ASU’s longtime real estate analyst, retired last summer.
Orr moved to metro Phoenix from Silicon Valley during the housing boom after a 30-year …