Salem Area, Oregon Top 5 Home Sales: Turner Home With Mountain Views Leads at $1.2 Million
Four of the five homes are on one level, and the group runs from new construction on a Salem cul-de-sac to a farm property with barns in Aurora.
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Queen Creek-San Tan Valley, Arizona Top 5 Home Sales: Airpark Home in Queen Creek Leads at $2.75 Million
A fly-in property with runway access, a gated Bridle Ranch home, two brand-new builds and a San Tan Valley home with a resort-style yard make up the week’s top sales.
Olympia-Thurston County, Washington Top 5 Home Sales: Madrona Beach Waterfront Home Leads at $1.1 Million
A low-bank home on Eld Inlet, a South Bay property with room for two households and a new one-story home on almost seven acres led a week of sales in the county.
North Central Washington Top 5 Home Sales: Lake Wenatchee Waterfront Home Leads at $2.1 Million
A lakefront home at Lake Wenatchee led the week, followed by a Methow Valley property on open land, two East Wenatchee homes and a view home on Chelan’s South Shore.
Edmond & Guthrie Area, Oklahoma Top 5 Home Sales: Edmond Horse Property Leads at $1.5 Million
An Edmond horse property led the week, followed by homes in Jones, Redbud Canyon and Tall Oaks and a Tudor-style home built this year.
Prescott Area, Arizona Top 5 Home Sales: Talking Rock Ranch Home Leads at $1.5 Million
A new home in the gated Talking Rock Ranch golf community led the week, and two newly built homes on one Hidden Hills street took the next two places.
Portland Metro Area, Oregon and Washington Top 5 Home Sales: Wooded Acreage Leads at $2.25 Million, With Historic Homes in Buckman and Alameda Irvington
A contemporary on private forest land led a week that also brought a Georgian estate, a renovated bungalow, a Queen Anne Victorian and a home by a Northwest modernist architect.
Oklahoma City Area, Oklahoma Top 5 Home Sales: Jones Home Leads at $2.3 Million
A home in Jones led the week, two Nichols Hills homes followed among the five, and agents from Sage Sotheby’s Realty listed three of them.
Greeley & Weld County Area, Colorado Top 5 Home Sales: New Berthoud Acreage Leads a Week of Country and Neighborhood Homes
A newly built home with mountain views on open land in Berthoud tops a week that also brought horse properties in Greeley and Brighton and a new ranch home in Firestone.
Grand Junction Area, Colorado Top 5 Home Sales: $1.4 Million Fruita Home Leads the Week
A Parade of Homes model in La Mesa Estates South topped a week that also brought ranch homes, a home across from a city park and nearly 13 acres of horse country north of Fruita.
Glendale-Peoria, Arizona Top 5 Home Sales: Peoria Golf-Course Home Leads at $1.3 Million
Resort-style backyards ran through the week’s top sales, from the fairways of a Peoria golf community to a Glendale cul-de-sac with room for a workshop.
Fort Collins Area, Colorado Top 5 Home Sales: Eagle Ranch Estates Home Leads at $1.7 Million
A home in Eagle Ranch Estates led the week, followed by a home in Windsor’s Country Farms and three more Fort Collins homes that sold within about $10,000 of one another.
Fayetteville-Springdale Area, Arkansas Top 5 Home Sales: A $1.2 Million Fayetteville Home Leads, With Acreage in West Fork
All five of the week’s top sales were four-bedroom homes in Washington County, ranging from a home still to be built in Fayetteville to wooded acreage in West Fork.
Eugene-Springfield Area, Oregon Top 5 Home Sales: New Gillespie Butte Home Leads at $2.6 Million
A home finished this year, a log home on the McKenzie River and a 1922 cottage near campus were among the week’s top sales.
Corvallis-Albany Area, Oregon Top 5 Home Sales: Three Corvallis Homes Share the List With Albany and Lebanon
The week’s top sales were all single-family homes, spread across Benton and Linn counties and ranging from compact neighborhood lots to a rural property with outbuildings.
Chico–Oroville Area, California Top 5 Home Sales: A Custom Chico Estate Leads, and a Durham Ranch Joins the List
Four of the week’s five highest-priced sales were in Chico, and the fifth was a ranch property outside Durham with barn, pasture and orchard views.
Bakersfield Metro Area, California Top 5 Home Sales: A $1.45 Million Bakersfield Home Leads a Week of Pools, Seven Oaks Homes and Two 20-Acre Spreads
Remodeled and recently built homes in Bakersfield shared the week’s top spots with two properties of about 20 acres each, one of them in the equestrian country of Bear Valley Springs.
Aurora Area, Colorado Top 5 Home Sales: Inspiration Home Leads at $1.4 Million
Two golf club neighborhoods and two communities on the Douglas County side of Aurora produced a week of large, mostly recent homes with finished basements and three-car garages.
Voters Back Data Center Limits in at Least 37 of 41 Local Ballot Measures
From Alhambra, Calif., to 21 Ohio communities, Nov. 3 voters approved bans and moratoriums and rejected every measure that would have eased data center development, according to Ballotpedia’s tally.
Rate and Compass Merge Their Two Mortgage Ventures Into OriginPoint, Claiming a Top-10 Retail Lender
Guaranteed Rate Affinity and OriginPoint will combine under the OriginPoint name, tying one lender to Compass International Holdings’ network of more than 80,000 agents. Rate plans to hire hundreds of loan officers.
Bellingham-Whatcom County, Washington Top 5 Home Sales: A Geneva Home Leads a Week of Acreage, Trails and Bay Views
A new home on forestry-zoned acreage in Blaine, a South Hill condominium with bay views and three Bellingham homes near trails make up the week’s top sales.
Clackamas County, Oregon Top 5 Home Sales: Lake Oswego Contemporary Leads at $3.3 Million
Three Lake Oswego homes, a ranch on a Canby golf course and a country property of more than 24 acres in Oregon City made up the week’s top sales.
Colorado Springs Metro Area, Colorado Top 5 Home Sales: Cascade Mountain Home Leads at $1.3 Million
The week’s top sales ran from the mountain community of Cascade to Monument and Colorado Springs, and all five were single-family homes in El Paso County.
Fresno Metro Area, California Top 5 Home Sales: A Renovated Bullard Contemporary Leads at $1.5 Million
Four Fresno homes, most of them with pools, and one mountain home that backs to forest at Shaver Lake made up the week’s top sales.
North Denver Metro Area, Colorado Top 5 Home Sales: Brighton Acreage Home Leads at $1.6 Million
A Brighton estate with an RV garage, a furnished golf course home in Broomfield and an Arvada property with water rights were among the week’s priciest sales.
North Tucson-Foothills Area, Arizona Top 5 Home Sales: New Construction Leads at $3.1 Million, With Catalina Foothills and Dove Mountain in the Mix
Two newly built desert contemporaries, a pair of Spanish-style homes in the Catalina Foothills and a glass-walled modern on a Tucson Mountains ridge made up the week’s top sales.
Northeast Valley, Arizona Top 5 Home Sales: Paradise Valley Home Leads at $9.5 Million
Four of the five sales were in Scottsdale, and every one of the homes was built in 2021 or later.
Orange County, California Top 5 Home Sales: New Coastal Homes in Corona Del Mar and Newport Beach Lead the Week
Two newly built homes with coastal views, a Mediterranean estate in Shady Canyon, a bluff-top property with permitted plans and a canal-front home in Huntington Harbour made up the week’s biggest sales.
Phoenix Area, Arizona Top 5 Home Sales: $5.3 Million Jokake Villa Home Leads a Week of Phoenix Sales
All five of the week’s top sales were single-family homes in Phoenix, and two of them were built this year.
Portland Westside and Wine Country, Oregon Top 5 Home Sales: Beaverton Home Leads at $1.6 Million
A Beaverton home that sold for $1,600,000 led a group that ranged from a mid-century modern in Bonny Slope to a timbered property in the Dundee Hills.