Phoenix Metro Real Estate Blog

Home Buying Priorities

  What Are Your Must-Haves? Getting Clear on Your Home Buying Priorities If you could design your dream home, what's the one feature you couldn't live without? I ask buyers some version of this question all the time, and the answers are never the same. For some, it's a chef-style kitchen with room t

What is Escrow?

  What Is Escrow? A Homebuyer's Guide to One of Real Estate's Most Misunderstood Terms In more than 30 years of helping buyers and sellers across the Phoenix metro area, I've noticed that "escrow" is one of those words that gets used constantly in real estate — but isn't always well understood. Buye

Prioritize the House or the Neighborhood?

  Why the Right Neighborhood Matters as Much as the Right Home After more than 30 years helping buyers and sellers across the Phoenix metro area, I can tell you one thing with certainty: the "for sale" sign is never really about the house. It's about everything around it. I've walked through plenty

Kitchens - They are Still the Heart of the Home

  Why the Kitchen Still Sells the House: What Phoenix Metro Buyers Are Looking For After more than 30 years in the Phoenix metro real estate market, I can tell you one thing hasn't changed: the kitchen is still the heart of the home, and it's usually the first thing buyers notice when they walk thro