About Buckeye's Sun City Festival

NEW LISTING!
Sun City Festival Homes for Sale - Popular Gala floor plan!

Address: 26655 W Runion Dr, Buckeye, AZ 85396
Arizona Retirement Community: Sun City Festival
Sq.Ft.: 1612
List Price: $229,000
MLS # 4275368

Description: Sun City Festival real estate. This gorgeous Sun City Festival Gala is centrally located & within walking distance of the rec center. Enjoy outdoor living to the fullest on the south facing extended patio w/ knee wall or in the courtyard at the front of the home. The home boasts a luxury kitchen w/ GE profile stainless appliances including a side-by-side refrigerator, R/O drinking water at sink, granite countertops w/ tile backsplash, & light maple cabinets w/ roll-outs. Other upgrades include; plantation shutters throughout, bay window in Master, neutral 18'' tile in all but bedrooms & den, decorator color on walls, view fencing in back, dbl sinks in master bath, stereo speakers inside & out, a security system, soft water system. This home is a must see and won't last long! Top of the line Bosch washer & dryer convey

To see 30 pictures of this home go to 26655 W Runion Dr

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If you are in the market to buy or sell a home in one of the Phoenix west valley active retirement golf communities, please call me or visit my website http://KathyAndersonRealtor.com. Here you will find information on homes for sale in Sun City Grand Surprise Arizona, resales in Corte Bella, Sun City Festival real estate, Arizona Traditions MLS listings, Trilogy at Vistancia and Sun City West, PLUS see a map of the Surprise AZ area retirement communities. Don't hesitate to call or email if you have questions.

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Ken Meade Realty
Sun City Grand Office

(602) 703-8930

3rd quarter resale Sun City Festival real estate sales figures have been posted to my website.  It was a slow summer for home sales out there in north Buckeye, Arizona.

Over the last week or so our MLS listings for Sun City Festival have been on the increase.  I think it will be an interesting yesr for the resale market out here this year.  Normally it is difficult for homeowners to re-list their homes and successfully sell them in a community this young due to the builders giving away huge incentives to buy new construction. 

But Pulte has changed their program.  One of the big draws for buying out there was that granite countertops, and many of the other features that are considered upgrades in most communities, were being given as standard fare out in Festival.  That has changed now.  In an effort to make a more affordable house for more buyers, Pulte has taken away those upgrades on the smaller series homes.  By the time you add them back in you are paying as much, or more, than what the pricing is for some of the resale homes.

This will probably turn out to be a huge boon to the homeowners who bought homes in the last couple of years and have found themselves in a position of having to sell.  This fact and the fact that many of the new construction home lots have a healthy view of the power lines, may make this a great year for the resale market.  Time will tell.

To see archives of the Sun City Festival resale home sales
click on the tab below

Sun City Festival Floor Plans

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If you are in the market to buy or sell a home in one of the Phoenix west valley active retirement golf communities, please call me or visit my website http://KathyAndersonRealtor.com. Here you will find information on homes for sale in Sun City Grand Surprise Arizona, resales in Corte Bella, Sun City Festival real estate, Arizona Traditions MLS listings, Trilogy at Vistancia and Sun City West, PLUS see a map of the Surprise AZ area retirement communities. Don't hesitate to call or email if you have questions.

Subscribe to my AZActiveRetirementLiving.com blog feed

Ken Meade Realty
Sun City Grand Office

(602) 703-8930

PerfectPower is having a solar seminar out in Sun City Festival, Buckeye AZ this next Wednesday. It looks as though they have programs in place where new home owners can save greatly if they band togather to conserve energy. This event is designed to give residents a no pressure forum to get information pertaining to real world solar information.

The event is being held Wednesday, July 15th at 6:00 p.m. in the Sun City Festival Community Center.
Click HERE to sign up if you want to attend

I just posted the 2nd quarter resales for Sun City Festival real estate. I was quite surprised to see how many resales we are already experiencing in this Arizona Del Webb retirement community. I'm only speculating, but I'm going to assume some of it was due to dwindling retirement portfolios.

In any event, while the sellers took losses, buyers had an excellent opportunity to purchase homes in the first sections of phase I, many of which were closer to the rec center than what was currently being offered by the builder.

Click on the tab below to see the Sun City Festival resale home sales figures for the last quarter. I've also provided a link to see all the resale home figures starting in January 2008.

Surprise, Surprise! Resale home sales have picked up in Buckeye AZ's Sun City Festival this year. Last year there were only five resales for the entire year showing in the Arizona Regional MLS system. This year we had five closings in just the 1st quarter.

Most of these homes are being sold at a considerable financial loss to the sellers. Unfortunately that's what happens if you purchase in a new home community where you are competing against the builder and all their incentives AND you don't have the luxury of sitting on the property for 5 to 7 years.

Add to that the dropping home values in the valley and you have a tough market for sellers in Sun City Festival. BUT it creates an outstanding opportunity for buyers looking for a great deal in Phase I of the community.

I just posted the 2008 resale homes sold in Sun City Festival as well as the Sun City Festival 2009 1st quarter resale home sales.

You will be able to access the Sun City Festival Resale Sales Archive page from the Sun City Festival Resale Homes for Sale page of my website.

I also have pages set up on my website to monitor Sun City Festival Short Sales and Sun City Festival Foreclosures. As of this writing there was only one home listed as a short sale and no foreclosures. There are four homes scheduled to go into foreclosure but it's tough to say when (or if) they will show up in the MLS.

All you can do is monitor them either on my website or via a custom search I can set up. The custom search will put the foreclosure listings in your email box as soon as they come on the market. This gives you an advantage over others that opt not to as many of these foreclosures have multiple offers within hours of hitting the market.