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Not all of metro Phoenix’s housing market is slowing. Multimillion-dollar manisons are selling at twice the pace of a year ago. Since mid-Novenber, an Arizona house priced above $2 million has sold almost every day, according to real estate analyst Mike Orr’s Cromford Report. Only one of the luxury home sales was outside of metro Phoenix — a $3.275 million house in Flagstaff. The final tally for December home sales isn’t in yet. But in November, 20 Valley homes sold for more than $2 million, according to Orr’s report done with Walt Danley Realty. That’s double the pace of November 2013. The priciest house to sell in the past few months is a $9.75 million mansion in north Scottsdale’s gated Silverleaf community. The 15,000-square-foot new home has six bedrooms and 11 bathrooms. Houses are starting to sell on the former site of the Mountain Shadows resort in Paradise Valley. Scott Griggs of The GRIGG’s Group and Realty Executives said 14 homes priced above $1 million in the new development have sold since late October, and another house is about to sell for $6 million. Paradise Valley has long dominated metro Phoenix’s million-dollar housing market, but more than half of the recent sales priced above $2 million are in Scottsdale. “There is growing consumer confidence in the ultra-luxury market in Scottsdale,� said Monica Monson of Monson Luxury Group and Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty.
Priciest on the market Here are the five priciest houses for sale now in metro Phoenix: $32 million This almost 30,000-square-foot estate on 17 acres in north Scottsdale’s luxury community Silverleaf went on the market in January. The Tuscan-Mediterranean-style mansion, built a few years ago, comes with 14 fireplaces and 17 waterfalls and other aqua features. It has an indoor sports court and two indoor shooting ranges – one for guns and another for bow and arrows. Seth Koppes, co-founder of St. Louis-based Bancorp Services, currently owns the house. $25 million This is probably the most high-profile house on the market now because of See MANSIONS, Page R3
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SOPHISTICATED OLD WORLD ESTATE ON TWO ACRES. MLS# Privately gated, this grand estate exudes Old World warmth Bedrooms combined with a wealth of opulence and elegance. Living room Bath with frescoed ceiling, floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking lush Pool grounds. Dining room with vaulted/beamed tongue-and-groove ceiling. Family room with wet bar, same hardwood ceiling motif as Sq. Ft. dining room and kitchen. Majestic stone-pillared corridors. Master ZIP Code retreat with black-tie dressing closet, gym-size exercise room, wood-paneled office. Wine room, theater, game room/billiards Online Pics Price parlor. Rooftop view deck, smooth-as-glass pool, spa, freshair kitchen, party ramada. Guest house. Eight-car garage. Visit tourfactory.com/1265459. See inside for full details and directions.
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