No pressure. No diamonds.
Today’s HOT LIST Link ( click the pretty blue link below to see today’s picks ):
$10,000,000
7836 N INVERGORDON PL, Paradise Valley, AZ
“Primary bedroom has private elevator”
Because a “Public” Elevator could get awkward. There are dozens of ways to describe this 12K sq ft castle sitting on 12 acres of snowless ski slope running down Camelback’s backside. Take a good look at what you don’t see: Furniture. This property was purchased this June for $8,500,000. Today it leaps back on market, same listing agent as before, same copy and paste description as before, with 1.5 million reasons for someone else to pay more money for it.
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. A total of seven Valley castle sales have leapt the $10 million mile marker since this home closed for $8.5M. That’s about 150 days ago, appreciating at a $10K per day pace apparently. If they manage to pull this Hold and Sold flip off, converting a few months of dust collection into a million ways to say “obscene”, we should all kick ourselves. WHY DIDN’T WE THINK OF THAT!?!
$540,000
3326 E ONYX AVE, Phoenix, AZ
“Come see the unique architecture of this home.”
Cubic Zirconia is a hard, colorless, synthetic material that is barely indistinguishable from diamonds. You may be wearing one right now, ahem, unknowingly. If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, cubic zirconia is that acquaintance she knew in high school that keeps getting denied connect requests on LinkedIn. Real Diamonds are mined by hardworking children, working double shifts, under threat of death and torture. Cubic zirconia is simply made in a lab. Diamonds are the original. Without diamonds the cubic zirconia copy lab technicians would be making bat viruses or creating super villains or whatever else it is lab people do.
This neighborhood of Paradise Gardens was long advertised by Realtors as being designed by Al Beadle. Al Beadle was a Seabee in WWII who moved to Phoenix post-war and used the straightforward design concepts he’d learned building war bunkers to create some of our Valley’s most inspirational and beloved Architectural gems. Al Beadle is one of our diamonds.
A few years ago a Paradise Gardens home flipper was gutting one of these “Al Beadle” homes, filling a dumpster with the outgoing contents. A passerby spotted a bright watercolor print in the dumpster, which turned out to be the original sales brochure. Attached was a set of original blueprints. The architect’s name was instantly recognizable!
“That’s NOT Al Beadle!”
The architect is Richard Britt, who designed this neighborhood as a “tribute” to Beadle’s style. This neighborhood did not magically become uglier upon this revelation. A gem is a gem, and Paradise Garden’s Beadle-inspired collection of architectural gems will always sparkle as designed, even if it’s less bling for the buck. This particular home is diamond market priced. It makes the list today because it could potentially sparkle like a diamond, but it’s a cubic zirconia and should have been priced likewise. Know what you’re buying!
$2,790,000
16610 E INCA AVE, Fountain Hills, AZ
“custom home that the R & B Artist group SISTER SLEDGE recently chose to shoot their upcoming video!”
Living life is fun and we’ve just begun, to get our share of this world’s del-i-i-ights
(Hi!)
High hopes we have for our future, and our goal’s in sight!
We are family!
I got my Hot Listers and me!
We are family!
Get up everybody and…read your e-mail…
Coffee time!
Some might say incorporating a one hit wonder disco era band into the property marketing of a luxury home was a stroke of brilliance. 136 days later, $200k lighter, eh…maybe it was just a stroke. It’s rather encouraging that Sister Sledge, who’s only other hit was the chorus of “Gettin Jiggy Wit it”, is still together. They lived up to their word! That is a family. Thing is, if you’re going to incorporate the celebrity sales pitch that a music video was shot at this location, maybe provide a link to the video?
Because it’s Tuesday morning and I’m rifling through Sister Sledge videos!
(na na na na na na na)
Gettin jiggy wit it.
$TWENTY MILLION!!!!
8100 N 68th ST, Paradise Valley, AZ
“This authentic Italian Villa”
Is not located in Italy. That’s as authentically Italian as Chef Boyardee serving Appian Way pizza in a Guchi suit. This is a price change listing. Remember, “price change” means the price went UP. Everyone is concerned about inflation these days (Inflation is when everyone is so rich nobody can afford anything). You feel inflation’s special effects everywhere. Pictures are only worth 750 words, dough loses elasticity, even the free Air at the gas station went up to $1.75! Inflation blows.
This house was $18 million yesterday.
The price rose $2 million overnight!
So you’re paying $3.75 for gas.
It could be worse.
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