Our
thanks to the local and national media folks who have supported
our properties through the years. . . . From CNN to Fox Network,
and in Phoenix broadcasting, Diane Ryan, the long-time host of
"Cool House" on Fox 10 and Syleste Rodriguez who currently does
an excellent job on the program. We've put together a
compilation of some of amazing properties. Click the photo.
And to see the entire real estate tours, on our TV page, follow
this link!
Check out these vintage radio promos done for Preston's show
when on KTAR Radio!

What a time to sell your house! Sotheby's has now sold more than 5
Billion Dollars worth of real estate last year, an all-time record. We
have a super shortage of inventory in our area, less than 3500 homes for
sale in the ENTIRE greater Phoenix metro area. In a normal market, that
number can be 25,000. Last time I
checked, there were only 21 houses for sale in Carefree. This is
amazing and inventory should be 130 homes or higher. We have
found buyers for almost all of our houses this year! How about we sell
yours? Call us for information. Huge buyer demand in Arizona from
the West Coast.
Last year, below are some of the homes we have been blessed to sell.
Two homes on the runway at Skyranch, A Desert Mountain contemporary
gem, a secret ranch with artesian wells and more.
One of the most spectacular drives in the world, and it goes to our Last
Outpost Off-the-Grid 40 ac
Can you imagine going from the desert floor to over 4,100 feet in
minutes!
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One gold property sold, two under contract!
We have recently sold the Golden Star Ranch, $2.15 million. Patented
land with artesian wells and historic gold mines. Forbes Magazine says
"Gold prices set to explode, and there is big interest in quality gold
properties.
The Octave, is under contract, but can be shown for backup offers.
Featured by Forbes Magazine, its one of the legendary gold
mines. We have another interesting gold property, the "Last Outpost," 40 acres patented
gold mine on top of Continental Mountain overlooking Phoenix, featured
on Fox10 , who called it a "Pure Gold Property." Our thanks to anchor/reporter Brian Webb,
for the wonderful story. . See stories
and links below. The Last Outpost is now under contract as well
and can only be shown for backup offeers. It was the only piece of land
currently available on
Continental Peak.

Thanks to Forbes magazine writer Regina Cole, who did an excellent piece
of our

Octave and Beehive mining properties. Forbes has featured the
Octave twice now. Good things expected
with the price of gold in the future. One of the legendary mining
properties, as seen on Fox Network.
Read about it here:

UNDER CONTRACT, PENDING, can no longer
be shown. What a sweet piece of property! See it on Fox TV!

The Last Outpost was the only piece of
land available currently on majestic Contiental Mountain.
Currently under contract. Photo Above, "The Last Outpost" was featured in February, on a Fox10
Special Report with Brian Webb! An idea Prepper "Bug Out" location! With more people wanting space, safety and
privacy, off-the-grid is in demand. This historic mining property
has astonishing views.
Find your solitude and privacy with a shorter drive than most people
spend on a daily commute. 30 minutes from town. Think of it
as your own campground!!and....much more!
Home Insider says Arizona is in the top 3 most popular states to live
off the grid! 40 patented acres of land, rising to a cliff with
panoramic city light and wilderness
views of the Greater Phoenix area. Double-gated with absolute
solitude and privacy. Even if you didn't build, enjoy any number of activities from rock
climbing, hiking, target shooting, prospecting for gold in the famous
gold mines on the property (and you can keep what you find because
mineral rights are included. From four-wheeling to ATV travel on the
mining roads, caves with Indian ruins. The area was used as a
Hollywood filming site by Adrian Carr (Crocodile Dundee), who used the
historic mines and timbers for location shooting. This is a secure
location where you won't be bothered at all, since you are surrounded by
BLM and private ranch land. $ 1.3 million find out more by clicking on
the Best Listings button on the top menu. Check two more photos below.
Note Black Mountain on the left picture!

Skyranch and Carefree on the move! Last year, we closed
escrow on
a contemporary residence for $1.9 million, then the house next
door $1.2 million, And then the
next house for $ 1.55 million. What a thrill to sell 3 houses
all in a row.! Price per sq. foot
of the last two homes exceeds $500 sq. ft., some of the highest prices
per sq. foot in over two years. Carefree is
now the 3rd-ranked city for average price-per-sq.-foot sales after
Scottsdale and Paradise Valley. Cave Creek also climbing in the
rankings. We are pleased to report that Russ Lyon Sotheby's sells more
luxury properties in the Phoenix area than ANY other real estate
company, over $5.3 billion last year, an all-time record.
Below, Syleste Rodriguez of Fox 10 also showcased our other Skyranch
sale last year!
Could Cave Creek look like this in a thousand years? Director Adrian Carr (Crocodile Dundee and
Quigley Down Under) shot a sci fi movie "Solus" on the
Golden Star Ranch last year. Its a futuristic tale of a dystopian world. Check out
the title shot below.
Photo courtesy of J2
Productions. Solus is a big budget short film. They have
computer-generated a futuristic city where Cave Creek, Arizona use to
be. The Mayor of Cave Creek, when he saw it, jokingly said "don't blame
me, I didn't change the zoning!" If you know the area, you'll recognize
Black Mountain on the left. They picked the Golden Star for its mines,
tunnels, cliffs and abundant foliage for the producer.
See the Solus preview movie clip, from the spectacular opening scene,
showing what Arizona might look like in 1,000 years! (Still shot below)

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Many thanks to Russ Lyon Sotheby's International Realty for their
support to Nancy and I over the years. I was thrilled to recently
earn the Chairman's Board category for high sales volume. Pictured from left to right CEO Todd Gillenwater,
owner/partner Tom Locati, and on the right, Chairman Jim Lyons. Interesting
to note that when we sold the historic Boulder House, Todd Gillenwater
was one of the listing agents, along with Margy Senna. Tom was a
superstar agent who specialized in Estancia, before becoming a partner.
(he still holds the record for highest-priced sale in Carefree) Russ Lyon Sotheby's sold
a record $ 5.3 billion in real estate in 2020.
Its a sellers market!

Fun
time. Thanks to Diane Brennan, my former newscaster at KTAR Radio, for
letting me fill in for her on her That Real Estate Show.com recently.
We're both in real estate now. It was like homecoming week for me,
having been on the KTAR microphone for over 26 years and inducted into
the Arizona Broadcasters Hall of Fame! Hear the first segment here, an
interview with Tina Tamboer, top specialist with the prestigious
Cromford Report:

And the whole show on podcast here, click on the May 27th, 2018 show:

photos below at the new KTAR Studios off 16th Street.

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See the Fox News show on "The Property Man with Bob Massi"
What an honor it was to have worked with the late Bob Massi
and the Fox Network Team. Here's the entire story on
the gold mine properties:

While Gold Hill is no longer available, its an incredible
adventure into the tunnels! Some economists believe
the price of gold will skyrocket because of the trillions of
Fiat dollars (money with no backing) that have been paid out
in economic stimulus because of Covid 19. Our Octave property
has just gone under contract.

Shown for backups only.
Most Amazing house, Fox tours the Boulder House, built in a
pile of rocks!
About Us-Preston and Nancy Westmoreland Agents of
Distinction with Russ Lyon Sotheby's Int'l
We find hideaways! We're Preston and Nancy Westmoreland from Russ
Lyon Sotheby's International Realty in Carefree, and we've been
fortunate to call this amazing area home for 36 years!
Preston has put into the Lyon's Elite category, highest honor for
the sales agents. We'd love
to help you find your special hideaway or use our expertise to help
market your home for sale. Call us at 602-377-0060. Quick bio:
Preston was a sergeant in the Marines, and a Marconi award-winning
talk show host before joining Russ Lyon Sotheby's. His
wife of 48 years, Nancy, was a long-time escrow officer and branch
manager with First American Title prior to joining Preston at Russ
Lyon. Get 2 Realtors working for you, for the price of one!
The distinctive desert of North Scottsdale, Cave Creek and Carefree
is the "Upper Sonoran" desert, described by National Geographic as
"the most beautiful desert in the world," one of the most desirable
living locations anywhere. It's where the world-famous Boulders
Resort is located, along with some of the most unique residences in
the world! I was amazed the other day going through my
archives of how fortunate I have been to have led so many TV tours
through unique valley properties. See what you think!

This area has an abundance of landmark homes used in movies! The house
below left called BoulderReign, the former home of Rusty Lyon,
was featured in the movie Zabriskie Point, where a model of the
home was blown-up for the climactic end of the movie (middle) and
also used for Bob Hope's "Cancel my Reservations" (Below
right) In a remote area of Cave Creek, a residence there was used in
the movie "The Getaway" with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. They
planned the crime around the pool. Click on the two photos on
the left, below, to find out more about BoulderReign.
Just listed, one of America's legendary gold properties, subject of
books and media coverage. The Octave Mine. And with the price of gold expected to skyrocket after the
creation of so much unbacked money to combat the
Coronavirus economic hit, worth looking into. The property is available
3 ways with seller-financing. Get the historic Octave itself, the
Beehive and upper portions of the vein, believed to be more
highly-mineralized, or the entire Octave 266 patented acres. The Octave has produced over $310
million in precious metals on 30% of the property, a three-mile long
vein. One of Arizona's most famous and historic gold
mines, the legendary Octave, near Wickenburg, with it's 25 miles of
tunnels, 266 patented acres, including a home and numerous historical
buildings, stretching from the valley floor to mountaintops with a
perfect helipad site! This gem has produced over 200,000 ounces of gold,
75,000 ounces of silver. Offered for $8,675,309. MLS
6151111. Check this link for other pricing and info:
And links to media coverage, geologic
analysis and the Mining Journal Magazine story that described the Octave
as a "first-class mining property!"
The Octave was included in a Fox News tour on the "Property Man
with Bob Massi"
And on several episodes of the
SyFy channel "Ghost Mines" series. See it on Fox:

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The astonishing Boulder House we sold and was featured by Fox
News. The famous residence sold in 2005 for $ 4.8 million. Click on the newspaper story
to read coverage from the Arizona Republic of the Boulder House! See
an historical overview of this amazing structure:
And view a rare tour of the inside
by clicking on the aerial tour below.
On occasion, TV stations have asked us for
comments on various real estate issues. On Fox10, Preston
Westmoreland toured this extraordinary buy in Estancia, that sold in
several days for $100,000 above the asking price!
Preston
also took the Fox cameras also through the highest view property in
Phoenix and then led CNN and other TV stations deep inside the
$2.79 million
dollar Gold Hill gold mine in Scottsdale. Below, Preston
was interviewed about an incident with his plane where he and his
wife experienced an attempted hijacking!!.
We specialize in airport properties and hangars!
As
long-time pilots in the Phoenix area, we can help your search for
the perfect airport property. Avoid Scottsdale Airport 20-year
waits & Deer Valley Airport super congestion.
Skyranch is perfect for many of
the Very Light Jets! And gets no Federal funding! Very
private and exclusive. We can also show you key properties at
Stellar Airpark in Chandler.
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 Spring:
How Covid 19 has changed the real estate market, a movie is shot at Cave
Creek's hidden Golden Star Ranch, you'll never believe what historical
figure worked survey crews here, and went on to become one of our most
famous figures in history, Carefree breaks ground on a new hotel, and on
this special movie-maker edition, see a filmmaker's idea of what Cave
Creek will look like in 1,000 years, from the sci fi pilot "Solus"
filmed here!
All in this edition!
