The Kirkpatrick Team

When listing your home, you will be looking at a list of homes for sell that are similar to yours, with prices ranging from high to low. Many sellers will automatically list theirs in the highest range of listings. Listing your home high can be a tool that works in moving the market, but it also ...

Did you know that there is a great program out there where teachers, police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical clients can buy homes at half price?The HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) has a program called Good Neighbor Next Door, which is basically a program that allow...

Millennials now encompass the greatest percentage of homebuyers today, according to the National Association of Realtors. Millennials were raised with the Internet, thus they use it as their main method of research when looking for a new home. This research is not just looking at photos of a home...

One of the big questions we all will have to face as we grow older is "Where do I want to live when I retire?" Livability's list of the Best Places to Retire contains 10 cities throughout the United States, and Scottsdale AZ makes that list! Many people have health issues or financial constraints...

When it comes to buying a home, there are a select group of amenities that are rising to top of the list for what home buyers are looking for, according to a recent article on CBSHome.comNumber One: Energy EfficiencyThe cost of maintaining of larger homes has pushed some buyers to look at other o...

Arizona has been named the best state for occupational growth by Forbes Magazine October Issue.  This issue used forecasts based from Moody's Analytics, naming Arizona one of the “brighter spots in a slumbering U.S. economy thanks in part to renewed migration.” As we are crawling away from the ef...

An almost 77% year-over-year increase has been seen in the Phoenix-area market for new home building permits in October as compared to this same time last year. For 2015 alone, the Phoenix market has taken out 13,500 permits.  New home sales is up in the market place too but not as much as new ho...

The American Planning Association researches and studies many cities and towns across America every year. After great effort they release a list called the “Great Places in America” list. Only four places make their list and our own Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix was on it.The APA acknowledges...

While browsing the market day and night when shopping for a great home, many buyers overlook building a new home in that dream neighborhood which is close to work, has good schools, strong community. Location, location, location. If your dream location is filled with older or run down homes you c...

Perhaps you or someone you know is one of the many “boomerang buyers” in the post-great recession home market. You may be asking, “What is the post-great recession home market?” This is the recent window of time when many people we know experienced a short-sale or foreclosure that seemed like a h...