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CNN was in Town!! Thanks to the crew and photographer Stevan Pope for visiting the historic 117-acre Gold Hill gold mine, Scottsdale's biggest land offering and Maricopa County's most expensive listing. Watch the story right now: Also, just in: London's Daily Mail features Gold Hill:
CNN at Gold Hill

Media Alert!! Fox10's "Cool House" with Diane Ryan aired a tour of this fantastic home in March on Channel 10 in Phoenix. This Spanish Colonial Home is one of Paradise Valley's classiest, with a casita that looks like it came out of a Fairy Tale. The home has many Mediterranen touches, including some ceilings hanging with inverted brick, regal winding staircases on cantera stone, solid cherry hardwood floors and antiques galore. Enter the front doors from an 18th century Spanish mansion to a foyer with 20-ft. beamed ceilings. The residence has been featured on the cover of the holiday issue of Traditional Home Magazine, Residence, Phoenix Home and Garden and others. Check out the link to the broadcast below! The address is 3623 E. Marlette Avenue in Paradise Valley. The home by Nance Construction is priced at $2.975 million and shown by appointment only.

Did you see this? CBS 5 chose our fantastic 75 Acre Private Estate as "The Best Deal in Phoenix" and veteran reporter Katie Baker and crew spent several hours at the property preparing a story to air on their CBS 5 Morning Show. This home has now been reduced from $16.3 million to $ 6.4 million (photos below) See the story here:

See the house!

Gold Hill mine featured on TV! Arizona has Gold Fever! When the price of gold broke through the $ 1900/oz. threshold, buyers and investors were scrambling to find good sources of gold. An Australian group purchased a Sierra Nevada gold mine for $ 20 million dollars and will re-open it soon. Reporter Katie Baker and cameraman Kraig Stern from KPHO CBS5 in Phoenix went deep inside Scottsdale's amazing and historic Gold Hill mine for a Feature news story. Photos below! Check it out:

The Arizona Republic did a full-page story on the huge number of mining and exploration companies looking to open up older claims like Gold Hill. Read the story:

Fox10's Diane Ryan took viewers inside a stunning adobe home on the runway and golf course at Carefree Skyranch, Monday morning, January 9, on "Cool House" Photo below left, Diane Ryan and Preston with the Fox10 news truck on the scene Watch the broadcast here:

Still Waiting for the Bottom?

The Bottom's Been Reached!
Statistics Don't Lie! The bottom was reached in October of 2011 in the Phoenix area. "Prices have begun to rise at a fast pace, and bargains are no longer plentiful," says Mike Orr, ASU Center for Real Estate Theory. Zillow says Phoenix homes will increase 6.5% in value this year, ASU says median single-family home prices were up more than 20% in March, 2012! The number of foreclosures has plunged 60% in the last year. Bankers say the "shadow inventory" is a myth. The Arizona Republic reported April 1, 2012 that the top three zip codes for rising prices are: 1) Paradise Valley, 2) Carefree, and 3) N. Scottsdale's 85262 zip code. Huge numbers of multiple offers are received on the best deals now! Mirabel has seen a $700,000 median sales price increase in the last 3 months! Valleywide, in Maricopa County, where we had nearly 60,000 properties available several years ago, which includes all condos and homes, the number has now shrunk to an amazing 12,891! The red-hot rental market has eaten up the inventory. New home sales prices are up 35%. These are the hard facts of the real estate world out here. Don't end up like the fellow on the left! Get in on the busy Arizona real estate market. You snooze, you lose!

We find hideaways! We're Preston and Nancy Westmoreland from Russ Lyon Sotheby's International Realty in Carefree. National Geographic calls this "the most beautiful desert in the world," the high Sonoran, one of the most desirable living locations in the world! One of the most distinctive homes in the area is pictured on the left, the famous "Boulder Reign" home of Rusty Lyon's, where a model of the residence was blown-up for the climatic finale of the movie Zabriskie Point. Click the photos to see the story! It was also featured in the Bob Hope movie "Cancel My Reservations." This area features some of the world's most unusual and stunning homes and has always been the perfect hideaway for the rich and famous! Instant Bio: Preston was a sergeant in the US Marines, and an award-winning talk-show host before joining Sotheby's largest franchise in the world! His wife Nancy was a longtime escrow officer and branch manager with First American Title officer prior to joining Russ Lyon Sotheby's in Carefree! Get 2 Realtors for the price of 1!

The next time gold breaks the $ 1900/oz threshold, will you be ready to take advantage of the price? We're excited to represent an amazing gold property, Maricopa County's biggest listing. . .Historic Gold Hill gold mine, featured on TV and newspapers. We know the Ins and Outs of this astonishing 117 acre, $ 43 million dollar property.

Where will you be when Gold hits $ 1900/oz again?
A gold mine in Scottsdale, Arizona! Historic 117 acre Gold Hill, comprised of 6 patented claims, was discovered in 1874. Studies by the Canadian mining firm, Sage Gold, have assayed .925 oz of gold per ton. Iit's also zoned for Scottsdale residential hillside development for homes on 1 acre. What potential would it have for you? The main tunnel is just 3 miles off paved Cave Creek Road. Complete links,TV and newspaper stories, assay reports and other info here:

The London publication "Daily Mail" has recently done a story on Gold Hill and the British connection!

We've been fortunate to represent and sell some of the finest and most unusual properties in from Paradise Valley and Scottsdale, Carefree to Cave Creek. You'll see here, the unbelievable home built in a pile of boulders that we sold in 2005 for $ 4.8 million. Click on the newspaper story to read coverage from the Arizona Republic of the Boulder House!. Or, see a rare tour of the inside by clicking on the photo on the right. Preston has taken Fox TV cameras in Phoenix through one of the largest homes in the Phoenix area-a 3-story $16 million dollar home on the top of a mountain with 75 acres of land. See this astounding home by clicking on the TV Show button.

In the last year, a number of TV stations have asked Preston Westmoreland for comments on various real estate issues. You may remember on Fox10, he vowed to sell a home in Estancia in one week after it was listed. . . and it actually sold in 1 day, for $100,000 above the asking price!   Preston took the Fox cameras also through an extraordinary tract home that looked like an English country manor inside, and also led ABC15 cameras up and through the $ 43 million dollar Gold Hill gold mine in Scottsdale. Recently, he was interviewed on the large number of million dollar homes facing foreclosure. He gave sage advice for any homeowner who hopes to sell their house in this market.



We search the area on the ground and with our private aircraft, looking for properties with huge potential, some of which aren't even on the MLS!   Secluded homes in boulder-strewn canyons, home sites on airport runways, and fixer-uppers with lots of land! Click on the "Real Estate Gold" button on top for some ideas! We have access--Our company is the largest Sotheby franchisee in the world!! We're located right next to the World-famous Boulders Resort, listed # 1 resort in the Hideaways Report 14 years in a row. The Boulders has a world-class spa, many different housing areas inside, from all-adobe homes to townhomes on the golf course. Click the photo above for an inside view. The Boulders Resort is half in Carefree and the Southern side in Scottsdale.

Don't forget to see the airport property, including a lot on the runway ! As long-time pilots in the Phoenix area, we can help your search for the perfect airport property. Avoid Scottsdale Airport 20-year waits and Deer Valley Airport super congestion, named busiest General Aviation airport in the nation! We just listed another home on the runway, with hangar. And the first lot is available in years, on the runway, and golf course! See more here:
Skyranch is perfect for many of the Very Light Jets! Call Preston at 602-377-0060 for your personal tour!

See some of the Phoenix area's most amazing homes on our "Best Listings" page. All the ones below have been separately featured by the Wall St. Journal as some of the Great Homes of America, written about in the Arizona Republic, and showcased on various television home tours! See them all right here:

True adobe home/hangar at Skyranch Black Mountain Ultimate Getaway Rare 75 acre Mountaintop Estate

Looking for a home site in Carefree? Rare Hideaway! Priced below cost at $249,000. Be sure to click on the Entrada button below and see the Top Ten Reasons to buy there!! With prices of homes in Carefree now rising 9.4%, and a shortage of good deals, the idea of building exactly what you want, is becoming more popular! This price gets you into one of Carefree's top gated communities, Entrada, the last big home site on the market there, and the second-largest building site in this popular sold-out enclave, the consummate Arizona community where every territorial home is surrounded by lush desert. Owner/Agent property. There is no better piece of quality land in a prestigious community in Carefree. Near the new Super Wal Mart, Lowe's, Home Depot, the new "Y", Holland Community Center and Paradise Valley Community College!

You'll see more about this 1.5 acre parcel that's close to everything by clicking here:

The canyon you see above contains one of the largest collections of petroglyphs on private land anywhere in the country. The current owner fenced it off and guarded it for many years. We flew our airplane from Phoenix to take this panorama of the isolated property that is now offered for sale. These are the kinds of unusual properties we hear about sometimes, and include them in our section labeled

Bonus site! Why is Marie Osmond giving Preston Westmoreland a back rub? Find out more about his "other" life as one of the top radio talk show hosts in the nation, winner of the "Marconi" award, a member of the Arizona Broadcaster's Hall of Fame, with 27,000 guests interviewed in a thirty-year radio career!

Get insider real estate information and news stories on the North Scottsdale, Carefree and Cave Creek areas on our blog, The Carefree Times. See why a CNN crew made a quick trip to Carefree and North Scottsdale, Home with fantastic Indian Ruins sells for a bargain price, why there is conflicting information for a real estate market that should be redhot, the USA Today has great news for Phoenix homebuyers and see a flash flood video on youtube.com We've got the link. The Spring 2012 issue is here. Check it all out!