The roof took a beating last monsoon. The pool pump sounds like a leaf blower. Selling a house as-is in Arizona starts to sound like the clean way out. It can be close to that. But "as-is" means less than most sellers think, and a few duties follow you to closing...
Shopping Phoenix home builders means a lot of driving. Every model home smells like new carpet and optimism. The hard part is comparing builders on the same terms. Where are they building now, what do they sell and where do prices start? So we built this list from...
You're thinking about selling your Phoenix-area home, and you've started doing the math. The sale price is one number. What you walk away with is another. The real estate commission in Arizona is often the biggest selling cost in between. Most pages on this topic...
The Valley doesn't get snow, so it makes up for it with wattage. Christmas lights in Phoenix run from candlelit desert trails to lit boats on Tempe Town Lake, and the popular ones fill up fast. We opened each event's official page on November 4, 2026, and copied...
You know what your car is worth in about two minutes. Your house, likely the biggest thing you own, somehow feels harder to pin down. So it's fair to ask whether there's a Kelley Blue Book for houses, and whether it works in Utah and the Phoenix metro. The answer...
One headline says Phoenix prices are still rising. Another says sales just fell 40%. Your neighbor in Glendale cut her price twice. So which is it? Both headlines can be true at once, because they measure different things. Here's what each number says as of late...
You've decided to sell. Then someone mentions the SPDS, a CLUE report and the HOA packet, and suddenly the house feels like the easy part. Take a breath. The list is long, not mysterious. Some of it you fill out yourself. The rest someone else produces on request,...
You're getting ready to sell, and the first listing agent you talk to slides a number across the table. Is that normal? Is it the whole cost? And when do you actually pay it? Fair questions. The rules changed in 2024, and a lot of what sellers "know" about listing...
"The Phoenix market" is really four or five markets stacked on top of each other. A $420,000 house in Mesa and a $900,000 house in North Scottsdale aren't competing for the same buyers, and they aren't moving at the same speed. So if you're thinking about selling,...
Builders in the West had a rough August. New home sales across the region tied for their weakest reading of the past year, while the country as a whole barely moved. Shopping in Salt Lake County, Utah County or the Phoenix Valley? That's leverage. A builder with...
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