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Scarthin Books, in the old Arkwright village of Cromford, is for retrieving those rainy afternoons when visiting the Peak District.

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Scarthin Books, in the old Arkwright village of Cromford, is for retrieving those rainy afternoons when visiting the Peak District.

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"The market is much weaker now than it was a few months ago, with demand down severely almost everywhere," said Mike Orr, who publishes a daily online analysis of Phoenix-area housing called The Cromford Report.

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Scarthin BooksThe Promenade, Scarthin, Cromford, Derbyshire DE4 3QF, 01629 823272A sprawling shop with a dozen rooms over three floors, Scarthin Books has 5,000 rare and antiquarian volumes, more than the total stock of some other stores.

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That has prompted a surge in sales over the past year that has largely been driven by investors seeking bargain-basement prices, said Mike Orr, owner of the Cromford Report.

Phoenix's Home-Price Puzzle: How to Rise from Ashes? Jim Carlton 2011

The number of home sales is rising—to 6,428 in October from 5,443 in same month a year ago, according to the Cromford Report.

Phoenix's Home-Price Puzzle: How to Rise from Ashes? Jim Carlton 2011

The low-water mark for the market came in January 2010, when the median price for a home in the city of Phoenix fell 64% to $92,000 from $253,000 in December 2007, according to the Cromford Report.

Phoenix's Home-Price Puzzle: How to Rise from Ashes? Jim Carlton 2011

You listen to the stories now, poke into the history of the Manchester clubs, and it is easy sometimes to think they were not always football's equivalent of the Hatfields and McCoys or Capulets and Montagues …The night, for example, City clinched the 1968 title and the victorious team headed for the Cromford Club alongside the United players they had just condemned to second place.

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Over the same time, as prices weakened, unit sales rose 18%, according to the Cromford Report.

Phoenix's Home-Price Puzzle: How to Rise from Ashes? Jim Carlton 2011

Inventories of homes for sale are low, falling 41% to 21,304 in October, compared to 35,732 at the same time a year ago for Greater Phoenix, according to the Cromford Report, a market research firm in Mesa, Ariz.

Phoenix's Home-Price Puzzle: How to Rise from Ashes? Jim Carlton 2011