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Phoenix homes are selling at a fast, healthy pace CATHERINE REAGOR THE REPUBLIC | AZCENTRAL.COM
2017 is shaping up to be one of the best years for home sales in metro Phoenix. Sales aren’t higher than the boom year of 2005 when speculators bought a record number of homes, or the bust year of 2011 when investors snapped up a record number of bargain Phoenix-area foreclosure homes. But those years weren’t normal and definitely weren’t healthy for Phoenix’s housing market. “2005 went down in the history books as the year our housing bubble rapidly inflated,” said housing expert Tom Ruff of Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service’s The Information Market. “2011 was the
year housing prices bottomed out after the housingmarket collapse. “This leaves 2017 as the very best year for Valley resale homes in our history not influenced by some freakish market outlier,” said Ruff. Home sales are up 9 percent from last year. Regular buyers, including many first-timers, are driving more Phoenix-area home sales this year, and that’s a big reason why 2017 is such a better year than the others. “As rent prices continue to climb, Millennials are feeling compelled to make the jump into homeownership,” Living Chandler founder and Revelation Real Estate agent Matthew Coates told me. He also said many new residents coming to the See REAGOR, Page 3R
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