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Breaking News-Phoenix is now the Nation's Number ONE Real Estate Market in the US!!!
Increases of 36% in the last year Read more:

SALE PENDING LISTED FOR $2.59 MILLION

Stunning Old World Charm with this Spanish Colonial home at 3623 E. Marlette Ave, Paradise Valley . This home of Mediterranean/Spanish design was constructed by Nance Construction, one of Paradise Valley's top builders. Loaded with Old World Charm, and a story-book casita, it's been featured in Phoenix Home and Garden, on the cover of Traditional Homes Christmas Issue, Reside, and by Fox10 TV. Contact us for information on listing your own residence and what Sotheby's, and us, can offer-602-377-0060

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Latest stats on local sales just in, from the Arizona Republic's Real Estate survey!!!
3/4 of all zipcodes showed housing increases! Phoenx home prices up 18.8% in the last year, Cave Creek-up 9.1% , Anthem-up 13.3%

, Paradise Valley up 2.1%, Carefree down 15.2%, however, Carefree home sales are increasing during the last 3 months. Let us help you find some of the best deals in the area. Hottest zipcode:  85015-up 44.8%
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Preston Westmoreland was recently back on KTAR! Diane Brennan, who hosts That Real Estate Show on KTAR 620, along with Fox 10s Linda Williams (photo, right) recently interviewed Preston for her blog and covered some of the highlights from his Radio and Real Estate Career. Read it at:

To download a podcast of the on-air interview, check this out:

Preston and Nancy at the Carefree office

We find hideaways! We're Preston and Nancy Westmoreland from Russ Lyon Sotheby's Realty in Carefree, and we've been fortunate enough to call this amazing area home for 30 years!
The distinctive desert of North Scottsdale, Cave Creek and Carefree is in the Upper Sonoran Desert, called by National Geographic "the most beautiful desert in the world," one of the most desirable living locations anywhere! It's where the famous Boulder Resort is located, and some of the most unique homes in the world!

One of the most eye-catching residences in the area is pictured on the left, the famous "Boulder Reign" home of Rusty Lyon's. The home was used in the movie Zabriskie Point back in the 1960's, and in fact, a model of the residence was blown-up for the climatic finale of the movie. (photo below left).

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It was also featured in the Bob Hope movie "Cancel My Reservations." This area features some of the world's most unusual and stunning homes and has always been the perfect hideaway for the rich and famous! We'd love to help you find your special hideaway or use our expertise to help market your home for sale. Call us! About us at 602-377-0060. Preston was a sergeant in the US Marines, and an award-winning talk-show host before joining Sotheby's largest franchise in the world! His wife Nancy was a longtime escrow officer and branch manager with First American Title officer prior to joining Russ Lyon Sothebys. Get 2 Realtors working for you, for the price of 1!

photo credit: Elke Costemalle

CNN was in Town!! Thanks to the crew and photographer Stevan Pope for visiting the historic 117-acre Gold Hill gold mine, Scottsdale's biggest land offering. This property has been reduced to $12.9 million! Watch the story right now: Also: London's Daily Mail features Gold Hill:
CNN at Gold Hill

Check out this Top Listing-- Gold Hill, the largest parcel of land left for sale in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has a myriad of possible uses. Historic Gold Hill, 117 acres of patented claims with elevations over 4,300 feet and scattered pines! The land has been featured on TV and newspapers and now competitively-priced at $12.9 million Historical assays indicate a possibility of over 91,000 oz. of gold, and in addition, We have 16 other possible uses of the property! Check them out right here:.
It's also zoned for Scottsdale residential hillside development for homes on 1 acre. What potential would it have for you The property is just 3 miles off paved Cave Creek Road. Complete links,TV and newspaper stories, assay reports and other info here: The London publication "Daily Mail" has recently done a story on Gold Hill and the British connection! See more on CNN:

Also listed! New Gold Mine property listing in Yavapai County-one of the State's most historic mines and rich veins, the Octave Mine, Beehive Mine, which includes 266 acres of all patented claims, includes a home and mining equipment Offered for $5.9 million
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We've been fortunate to represent and sell some of the finest and most unusual properties in from Paradise Valley and Scottsdale, Carefree to Cave Creek. You'll see here, the unbelievable home built in a pile of boulders that we sold in 2005 for $ 4.8 million. Click on the newspaper story to read coverage from the Arizona Republic of the Boulder House!. Or, see a rare tour of the inside by clicking on the photo on the right. Preston has taken Fox TV cameras in Phoenix through one of the largest homes in the Phoenix area-a 3-story $16 million dollar home on the top of a mountain with 75 acres of land. See this astounding home by clicking on the TV Show button.

In the last year, a number of TV stations have asked us for comments on various real estate issues. You may remember on Fox10, Preston Westmoreland vowed to sell a home in Estancia in one week after it was listed. . . and he and Nancy actually sold it in several days for $100,000 above the asking price!   Recently, Preston took the Fox cameras also through the highest view property in Phoenix   and also led CNN and other TV stations deep inside the $12.9 million dollar Gold Hill gold mine in Scottsdale. Here's a sample:
Below, Preston discusses aircraft safety on CBS5.
During a recent search for a lost hiker, he appeared from Piestewa Peak Park to talk about desert surivival techniques.



We search the area on the ground and with our private aircraft, looking for properties with huge potential, some of which aren't even on the MLS!   Secluded homes in boulder-strewn canyons, home sites on airport runways, and fixer-uppers with lots of land! Click on the "Real Estate Gold" button on top for some ideas! We have access--Our company is the largest Sotheby franchisee in the world!! We're located right next to the World-famous Boulders Resort, listed # 1 resort in the Hideaways Report 14 years in a row. The Boulders has a world-class spa, many different housing areas inside, from all-adobe homes to townhomes on the golf course. Click the photo above for an inside view. The Boulders Resort is half in Carefree and the Southern side in Scottsdale.

Don't forget to see the Short Sale airport property and also a lot on the runway! As long-time pilots in the Phoenix area, we can help your search for the perfect airport property. Avoid Scottsdale Airport 20-year waits and Deer Valley Airport super congestion at one of the busiest General Aviation airports in the nation! We just listed another home on the runway, with hangar. And the first lot is available in years, on the runway, and golf course! See more here:
Skyranch is perfect for many of the Very Light Jets! Call Preston at 602-377-0060 for your personal tour!

See some of the Phoenix area's most amazing homes on our "Best Listings" page. All the ones below have been separately featured by the Wall St. Journal as some of the Great Homes of America, written about in the Arizona Republic, and showcased on various television home tours! See them all right here:

True adobe home/hangar at Skyranch Stunning Carefree Homesite 5 Acre Cliffside Hideaway in Carefree

Looking for Carefree's best homesite? Check out this Hidden parcel in Entrada!!
Priced below cost at $244,000. Be sure to click on the Entrada button below and see the Top Ten Reasons to buy there!!With prices of homes in Carefree now rising 9.4%, and a shortage of good deals, the idea of building exactly what you want, is becoming more popular! This price gets you into one of Carefree's top gated communities, Entrada, the last big home site on the market there, and the second-largest building site in this popular sold-out enclave, the consummate Arizona community where every territorial home is surrounded by lush desert. Owner/Agent property. There is no better piece of quality land in a prestigious community in Carefree. Near the new Super Wal Mart, Lowe's, Home Depot, the new "Y", Holland Community Center and Paradise Valley Community College! You'll see more about this 1.5 acre parcel that's close to everything by clicking here:

The canyon you see above contains one of the largest collections of petroglyphs on private land anywhere in the country. The current owner fenced it off and guarded it for many years. We flew our airplane from Phoenix to take this panorama of the isolated property that is now offered for sale. These are the kinds of unusual properties we hear about sometimes, and include them in our section labeled

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Preston Westmoreland was asked to broadcast from Piestewa Peak Park July 3 morning with Rick and Andrea on Fox10 News, to provide expertise in desert survival techniques while an ongoing search for a hiker continued in the Superstition Mountains. He demonstrated an EPIRB device (above left) , which can send a pulse of encoded information on your ID and location to a satellite, within seconds of being activated. Sadley, the 55 year old hiker, Kenny Clark, was found dead five days later, only one mile from the trailhead where he had left. Hundreds of searchers had combed over 265 sq. miles of territory, showing how elusive the desert can be. Clark was found under a tree.
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Bonus site! Why is Marie Osmond giving Preston Westmoreland a back rub? Find out more about his "other" life as one of the top radio talk show hosts in the nation, winner of the "Marconi" award, a member of the Arizona Broadcaster's Hall of Fame, with 27,000 guests interviewed in a thirty-year radio career!

Get insider real estate information and news stories on the North Scottsdale, Carefree and Cave Creek areas on our blog, The Carefree Times. This month: Biggest home sale in Cave Creek in over 7 years-where was it? Why did some people refuse to fly the Arizona State Flag during World War II? Latest real estate stats, Find out the incredible parking situation for the PGA Tour at Desert Mountain, the Charles Schwab golf event. Find out about the most expensive medicine in the world. Watch it. . . . or you might have to take it, and a look at what property taxes may do with the rising housing market. It's not what you think. Check it all out!