The weekly Cromford® Market Index ranking for the 18 largest Greater Phoenix cities, showing where each city sits now and how it has moved over the past month.
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Neighborhood Listing Presentations
We are working on a new feature that lets you create a detailed neighborhood briefing to use on a tablet or laptop at listing presentations. Before we launch this feature, we would like feedback from a few subscribers on whether it meets their needs and any suggestions for improvement. So far, we have pre-built it…
By Popular Demand
Tina has been showing one of our newer charts in her presentations and several subscribers have asked for it to be made available on the original site, so they do not have to wait for the new site to go live. We have therefore published Cromford® Days on Market versus Percentage of List Price and…
Mid-Month Pricing Update and Forecast
For the monthly period ending September 15, we are currently recording a median sales $/SF of $249.80 across all areas and types in the ARMLS database. This is down 0.9% from the $252.14 we now measure for August 15, and it has slipped below last year’s level: the same period in 2025 read $251.77, so…
Cromford® Subdivision Time Lapse for Maricopa County
Open full screen ↗ Following the subdivision explorer we published last week, here is a page that shows how these subdivisions developed over time from 1880 to 2026….
CMI Large City Ranking Table September 10, 2026
The weekly Cromford® Market Index ranking for the 18 largest Greater Phoenix cities, showing where each city sits now and how it has moved over the past month.
What a Golf Course View Is Actually Worth
If you ask any agent whether golf course frontage carries a premium, the answer will almost certainly be yes. Ask how much, and the answer will probably be that it depends. We decided to measure it across the Greater Phoenix area, which is relatively easy because the Maricopa County assessor flags parcels with golf course…
Market Summary for the Beginning of September 2026
The picture in early September is the mirror opposite of last month. In August, completed transaction numbers looked strong while forward-looking measures declined. This month the reverse is true. Pending listings, listings under contract, and the contract ratio have all moved back above where they stood a year ago, while closed listings and monthly dollar…
CMI Large City Ranking Table September 3, 2026
The weekly Cromford® Market Index ranking for the 18 largest Greater Phoenix cities, showing where each city sits now and how it has moved over the past month.
Maricopa Affidavit Statistics for August 2026
August 2026 had 21 working days, the same as August 2025 but one fewer than July 2026. The year-over-year comparison therefore needs no calendar adjustment, while July’s extra day means we should expect about 4.5% fewer closings than last month before reading anything into the change. Total closings came in at 5,417, down 7.8% year-over-year,…