Welcome to the Marta Walsh Group. Serving luxury real estate markets in the Paradise Valley, Scottsdale & Phoenix area.
Our speciality is listing high end properties. By focusing the majority of our time on sellers it makes for an immersive and concierge experience. We’ve honed our skills on advertising properties in todays digital workd and focusing on negotiating the very best deals for our sellers in any market.
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Downsizing in the Desert
After the property market had it’s recent correction downsizing became a hot concept. People just didn’t want 7,000 square feet McMansion’s as much any more. What if you want to downsize but also stay in the heart of the desert? There are options. SOme of the more recent condominium builds in places such as DC […]
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Post Bubble Home Sellers More Likely To Overprice
I was reading “Staged-to-Sell, But Is it Priced-to-Sell?” on realtor.com and while the article itself is an interesting read I wanted to get to the bottom of the numbers in the article. The basic idea is that Zillow measured how home sellers currently priced their home depending on when they originally purchased it. Human psychology I guess […]
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Subdivision of the Day: Scottsdale Mountain
Scottsdale Mountain is in the far east of Scottsdale, along the Shea corridor. Nestled into the McDowell mountains. It’s actually possible hike through the preserve from the trailhead at 136th St. just outside Scottsdale Mountain all the way to the Gateway trailhead in 85255, and even the borders of Silverleaf. Trail map. To go all […]
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Rebirth.
I was living in New York City on September 11, 2001. I never worked in the World Trade Center although I did take a trading class there sometimes. None of us will ever forget that day. Being remembered in Paradise Valley, Arizona with flags at half mast. My sister sent me an iPhone picture she […]
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Advice For Real Estate Investors
The Phoenix area is ripe for investors now and has been for some time. From 2001 there was tons of money being made as people just saw huge price run ups and huge capital gains on their rental properties. From the end of 2006 the opportunity was buying depressed properties at a steep discount then […]
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Phoenix Metro Area Real Estate Internet Search
So you might of heard that 74% of people use the Internet in their home search. That’s an old number and hard to believe it’s not closer to 95% by now. So everybody is online searching for homes to live in but what market dynamics can we draw from this. Luckily Google shares some of […]