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Buying your first home can be scary. Here is some information you should know before taking the plunge.
Metro Phoenix is often considered among the more-affordable places to live in the U.S., but a recent flurry of luxury apartment construction in Scottsdale is bucking that trend, with rent in some cases approaching Manhattan prices. Here are five buildings that many would consider pricey.
Single-family homes in metro Phoenix climbed almost 7.2 percent in value in 2017.
Beyond breathtaking, this magnificent estate sizzles with a sensational Sonoran setting deep inside Silverleaf, a distinctive enclave of multi-million-dollar homes cradled in and among the ruggedly gorgeous McDowell Mountains in far North Scottsdale, Arizona.
A shortage of construction workers, like this one working for Meritage Homes Corp., is making it hard for developers to respond to the demand for new homes.
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Taijuan Walker buys Paradise Valley house for $2.69 million.
A Phoenix midrise at 24th Street and Camelback Road sold for $100 million on June 14, 2018.
The home has seven bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
A “scotch and cigar” patio, as the homeowners call it.
The 269-acre parcel, east of 56th Street and north of Deer Valley Drive in Phoenix, was appraised for $54 million.
Paradise Valley house
This Paradise Valley house was sold for $3M by the former U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica
A new national report calls metro Phoenix one of the most overvalued housing markets in the U.S.
Former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer has sold his Paradise Valley house for $2.9 million.
Phoenix-based Camelot Homes won a top industry competition for constructing the best home of the year with a north Scottsdale house in the White Horse community.
Another wealthy buyer has busted Arizona’s record for the priciest home sale.
A group called Rimrock Properties paid $18.8 million in cash for a 21,000-square-foot mansion situated on 30 acres in Scottsdale’s posh Silverleaf neighborhood, according to public real estate records.
Kevin Knight, an executive with trucking firm Knight Transportation, sold the home with five bedrooms and 8 baths.
The house has one of the largest collections of reclaimed European building materials in the West, including 400-year-old French oak doors, 200-year-old oak beams and 200-year-old reclaimed roof tiles
The buyer used a Delaware LLC to purchase the home, which doesn’t require any names of the members to be disclosed. The tax mailing address for the buyer is the law firm Elliott, Ostrander & Preston in Portland, Oregon.
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Scottsdale-based Linthicum developed the $18.8 million home.
The home's new owner will be neighbors with the buyer of what’s now the second priciest Arizona house to sell.
A few weeks, ago a Canadian buyer plonked down $17.5 million for a 20,000-square-foot mansion in Silverleaf, a neighborhood of DC Ranch.
That buyer Nummus Properties, a Saskatchewan corporation, also paid cash.
The $18.8 million mansion was never listed for sale.
Multi-million dollar home sales are on a roll in the Valley.
The number of homes selling for $3 million or more in the Phoenix area have more than doubled this year, compared to the same time frame in 2017, said Tina Tamboer, senior housing analyst with the Cromford Report.
So far this year, more than 30 homes in that high price range have sold.
In December, Steve Sanghi, founder of Chandler-based Microchip Technology, paid a then-record $15.65 million for a mansion on Paradise Valley's Mummy Mountain. It's now the third priciest home sale ever to close in Arizona.