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Dream Big with Trilogy Vistancia and Trilogy Encanterra

March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Do you already know about Trilogy Vistancia. Trilogy Vistancia is an active adult community located in Peoria and is part of the larger master planned community of Vistancia. The gated community is beautiful and offers a country club lifestyle with all the goodies you would ever desire plus.

Trilogy Encanterra is an all aged country club community located in San Tan Valley with a section reserved for those who are 55 and up. Not yet 55?   Then this may be a wonderful community to choose.

Trilogy has a preview for preferred clients this week they are offering big savings (50% off the upgrade/options added to the homes) on their currently completed, move in ready, designer homes.  It will be advertised to the general public this weekend. So if you are looking for great savings on a move in designer home this could be the perfect opportunity to Dream Big with Trilogy at either location.

In Trilogy Vistancia these are the designer homes they have available.

  • Libertas Model – 2107 sq ft with the casita- discounted $58,888
  • Serenitas Model – 2092 – 2334 sq ft  - discounted $60,687
  • Aurora  Model – 2423 sq ft  -  discounted 139,875

Give us a call and we can get out to see these homes together.

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Pickle Ball? Pickleball? Pick el ball?

March 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

What is Pickleball?

At last I found out!  Pickleball is a combination of tennis, badminton and ping pong!

The court is a badminton size, can be on an indoor  basketball type surface, or an outdoor tennis court surface.  The paddle is wooden and slightly larger than a ping pong paddle the ball is a plastic base ball with holes in it!

The game is played with rules all it’s own with underhand serves, a no-volley zone, and an enthusiasm equaling the Wimbledon players.

All of the courts I have seen so far are in the 55+ Active Adult Communities.

In fact, Surprise was just the host for this year’s  Canyon State Championship games.

The sport attracts tennis players who have done in their knees or elbows with its’  no-volley zone and other rules making it a game of precision and patience instead of strength and endurance.   Might even be a sport for non-athletic types.  

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An Arizona Gem, Arizona Traditions

March 7, 2011 By 2 Comments

Arizona Traditions entry

One of our favorite communities is Arizona Traditions.  It is one of the smaller newer, gated, active adult communities located in the north west area of the Phoenix Valley.

One of the reasons we like Arizona Traditions is because each time we are there, we see people gathered.  Playing soft ball, around the pool, or walking and talking on the streets or cheering their neighbors at a Pickle ball competition .

This active adult community has less than 1800 homes and still has an 18 hole golf course, and a 24,000 square foot community center, with everything you would expect to find and do.

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Surprises at Sun City West

March 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

After picking up the key for a client at their new home in Sun City West, I headed over to the R.H. Johnson Recreation Center to take some photos.  The R.H. Johnson Rec Center is the largest facility in Sun City West and I was amazed to see how much there is available.

Sun City West_021Each ‘room’ was devoted to one club/craft/interest and they were VERY well set up.  The Weavers Guild had several different types of looms, and knowledgeable people to help anyone interested get started weaving.   There was a room for the Pottery makers with kilns, wheels and more.  Sewing rooms with really high tech machines.  Metal working rooms loaded with all you need to make beautiful jewelry.  I was amazed at the diversity in creative opportunities that were waiting to be explored.

Sun City West_115I realize now that any time I have a client interested in Sun City West, the spot I will be taking them is to the Gift Shop.  The Gift Shop has only items made by the residents of Sun City West in all of their clubs and groups.  It is the fastest way to show someone all the things people are doing in this Very Active Adult Community.  (check out the jewelry counters, beautiful hand made items at a fraction of the cost)

So if your either looking for a community where you will never get board, or looking for the perfect gift, Sun City West and their Gift Shop are must see locations.

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Foreclosures and the Adult Communites

February 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Although there are no adult communities within McCormick Ranch, our initial website is focused on Active Adult Communities and we work with many 55+ buyers.   

We are seeing lots of numbers being published for the ratios of Bank Owned and Short Sale properties in the valley.   We are not seeing those same numbers in the Adult Communities.   Since it is a cold rainy day, I have been playing with numbers and really surprised myself with what I found!

Taking only single family detached homes in the entire MLS for the valley, a total of 41,832 this morning, 10,796 of them were Bank Owned and an additional 9,003 were Short Sales.  Those numbers round off to 25% of the single family homes on the general market are bank owned and another 21% are short sales.  

Current MLS Single Family Homes on the market, with Bank Owned and Short Sale

Current MLS Single Family Homes on the market, with Bank Owned and Short Sale

 

 

BUT when you look at the Active Adult Community 55+ single family homes, there are a total of 2819 on the market.  Of that 2819 only 52 are bank owned and 63 are short sales which works out to 2% of the homes are bank owned and another 2% are short sales.

Current active single family home listings in adult communities comparing bank owned/ foreclosure and short sale

Current active single family home listings in adult communities comparing bank owned/ foreclosure and short sale

 

 

HMMMM  kinda makes you wonder.    Our 55+ citizens have indeed saved for their retirement homes, their financing is minimal and their risk taking days are in the past.

There were very few zero down,  or investor homes sold in these communities in the 2005 and 2006 sales surge.    I believe it is the investors who did get in to these adult communities, that are making up the Bank Owned and Short Sale properties.

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