From Carefree to Scottsdale, Arizona is home to some pretty impressive residences. Late basketball star Kobe Bryant hooped it up at a $23.5 million pad with an indoor basketball facility, while a $15 million eco-friendly home sits on 22 acres. Over in Paradise Valley, a compound estate just hit the market for $9.5 million, and one…
Treasure hunting in Phoenix just got a whole lot more interesting, and I’m not talking about digging for gold in the desert heat. The White Dove Thrift Shoppe stands as a beacon for bargain enthusiasts and thrifty shoppers across Arizona, offering an experience that’s equal parts retail therapy and charitable contribution. The blue and white…
STORY HIGHLIGHTSExport, Venetia, and Aspinwall/Sharpsburg are southwestern Pennsylvania’s hottest housing markets.Strong academic school districts correlate with the hottest housing markets.The top five markets are evenly distributed across four counties.For southwestern Pennsylvania, there has been a shift in where the region’s hottest housing markets are located. Say goodbye to Valencia, Fox Chapel and McDonald and hello…
Most people worry about their bike or car being stolen — not their home. But that’s exactly what happened to D’Andrea Turner when squatters took over her Phoenix home and sold it without her knowledge. “It feels so surreal,” Turner shared in an interview with ABC 15 Arizona. “I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. Really, I didn’t even think something like this…
Nearly a century after cannabis was criminalized by the United States, most Americans live in a place where local police no longer arrest all marijuana users. Weed has become so abundant in places like metro Phoenix that you have to wonder how it’s even grown. Reefer Growing Madness from KJZZ’s Hear Arizona podcast unit tracks…
A historic Phoenix home once owned by U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater in the Encanto-Palmcroft neighborhood is on the market for $2.05 million.The 4,142-square-foot Spanish colonial revival home, now owned by former Arizona Senate President Steve Pierce, was built in 1931. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, an arched stained-glass window and original tiles.The house also…
AI-assisted summaryMetro Phoenix home prices and sales increased in February after mortgage rates fell.Home sales in the area reached 5,638 in February, up from 4,578 in January.Experts predict that March home sales could surpass 7,000 due to a surge in listings.Mortgage rates started ticking down in February and metro Phoenix home prices and sales ticked…
USATSI Major League Baseball’s 2025 Opening Day is less than two weeks away. As such, it is never too early to keep tabs on each team’s Opening Day starter. These announcements have come in throughout spring training, but there are still plenty of decisions to be made.With that in mind, here is our living document…
Following weeks of confusion and online misinformation, Mexican immigration officials in Sonora have agreed to wait until May before more strictly enforcing a long-standing, but often disregarded, tourist permit requirement for foreign tourists headed to Puerto Peñasco, local officials said.Starting in May, all foreign visitors to Puerto Peñasco will need to get a tourist permit…
The chairman of Freeport McMoRan is trying to sell his Paradise Valley estate perched high on Mummy Mountain — again.Richard Adkerson, who paid $5.5 million cash to the original owners The Curtis and Celeste Dickman Family Trust in June 2007, hired Joan Levinson in late 2022 to list his home for $6.69 million.Levinson took it…