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Markets in Valley cities, towns cooling differently BY PAUL MARYNIAK
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August 25, 2022
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he Valley housing market’s cooldown is occurring at different rates in different cities and towns, according to a leading analyst. The Cromford Report earlier this month said that Queen Creek, Buckeye and Maricopa have become the most attractive areas for homebuyers to score a big deal while Phoenix is among the cities where buyers will have to wait a month before they can try to barter their way to a better
cater largely to first-time buyers who are less experienced, it can take a few weeks for these buyers to realize how strong a hand of cards they hold.” The Cromford Report identified five other communities whether neither buyer nor seller has a distinct advantage in sale negotiations. They include Tempe, Chandler, Surprise, Peoria and Gilbert. But it’s sellers in those five areas that need to be a little nervous, it added. “Astute sellers will realize that the sit-
deal. The balance between supply and demand is now so tilted toward buyers that they could be now calling the shots in Buckeye, Queen Creek and Maricopa, the Cromford Report said, adding that it may depend on their experience in the real estate game. “Here buyers now hold a distinct negotiating advantage and have a total of 2,243 active single-family detached listings to choose from,” it said. “This compares with 675 just three months ago. “Because the majority of these areas
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Worrell poised for role with regional partnership council
BY JORDAN ROGERS Peoria Times Staff Writer
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eoria Unified School District KidZone Director Ashley Worrell was recently named to the First Things First (FTF) Northwest Maricopa Regional Partnership Council. First Things First is Arizona’s early childhood agency that funds early education and health programs to prepare young children to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. Worrell will serve in the Educator category and will help support the healthy development and learning of the young children in the region. She took over for Peoria Unified’s director of preschool, Dr. Debbie Pischke, who just completed her term. “I’m excited to be involved with early child-
In the Educator category, Ashley Worrell will help support the healthy development and learning of the young children in the region.
hood again and be able to continuously take a look at what our families need, specifically our children, and doing our best to be able to provide access for them to early childhood opportunities, to health care opportunities and to early intervention opportunities,” Worrell said. “So, all the things that First Things First is able to provide for families and just really excited to be knowledgeable to continue to be able to make decisions to help us support our families.” The new position on the council is still relatively new to Worrell, as she was just selected, but she is looking forward to what the new role entails. She will bring her early childhood education experience to monthly
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