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About Joan Levinson: Joan Levinson was the 2022 Real Trends/Wall Street Journal Number 1 Realtor in Arizona, and #40 nationally. She was named by Newsweek as one of “America’s Best Realtors, 2020,” and the Inman 2022 Top Luxury Agent in Arizona, and as the Phoenix Business Journal’s Most Productive Phoenix Area Agent in 2020,2021, and 2022. As Arizona’s Luxury Real Estate Expert, she has specialized for the past 35 years in the finest estates in Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Arcadia. Levinson and her properties have appeared throughout TV and multiple major media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, Fox, ABC, NBC, Architectural Digest and more.
Mummy Mountain Road in top ‘aspirational streets’ list
In cities across the country, certain streets are not just thoroughfares — they are symbols of status and sophisticati...
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Paradise Valley’s Pandemic Rush Is Over—but High-Priced Homes Keep Selling
Even as pandemic-induced demand wanes, the affluent enclave of Paradise Valley, Ariz., has seen a recent spate of high-p...
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Realtor Joan Levinson brokers record-breaking $42M sale
Brokered by Realtor Joan Levinson, the largest undeveloped parcel in the Town of Paradise Valley has been sold — but w...
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Family’s $42M sale of Paradise Valley land ignores “much higher offers”
The family of a late Dial soap executive has sold 27 acres in Paradise Valley, Arizona’s wealthiest enclave, for $42 m...
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Paradise Valley land owner sells 27 acres for lower offer of $42M to ensure fewer homes built
A 27-acre vacant parcel in the heart of Paradise Valley has sold for $42 million. But don’t expect as many houses to b...
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Paradise Valley’s largest flat undeveloped parcel sells for $42M
The 27-acre undeveloped parcel of land near Mummy Mountain in the Town of Paradise Valley was sold last week for a recor...
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Largest luxury parcel sells for Arizona Record $42 Million
The largest non-hillside property available in all of Paradise Valley just closed today for $42 million, down from the o...
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Here’s What $15 Million Gets You In Paradise Valley: Three Listings
We're comparing three Paradise Valley properties all priced around $15 million to show how much bang you can get for you...
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Metro Phoenix luxury home prices push higher into the stratosphere as wealthy movers keep coming
The luxury market in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale is breaking through a new barrier, with listings upward of $75 milli...
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Paradise Valley homes with pickleball, tennis courts highlight priciest Phoenix houses sold
A Delaware LLC named after the address of the property paid cash for a 6,232-square-foot Paradise Valley house with five...
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Thousands of wealthy Californians are fleeing to celeb haven dubbed the ‘Beverly Hills of Arizona’, to escape soaring crime and high taxes
With 300 sunshine days a year, low taxes and safe streets, it's little wonder Californians are flocking to the so-called...
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Wealthy Californians are ditching the state for the ‘Beverly Hills of Arizona’
The cofounder of Saints Capital previously lived in San Francisco with his wife, who also works in venture capital, and ...
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Luxury broker races against the clock to sell former Coyotes’ owner’s Valley mansion
If a luxury broker doesn't sell this home by Feb. 22, the owner will move in. The $29 million sale price includes $2 mil...
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New Scottsdale mansion hits the market for $29M, but buyer must act fast
A north Scottsdale mansion in Silverleaf with garages for 20 cars, a $1 million home theater and a golf simulator is on ...
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A vacant 27-acre parcel in the heart of Paradise Valley for sale. Asking price: $55M
A 27-acre vacant parcel in the heart of Paradise Valley is on the market for $55 million.
The land was bought by form...
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Paradise Valley Home With Its Own Soccer Field Almost Scores New Arizona Price Record
A gated Arizona estate with its own soccer field has sold for $17.5 million. That is just shy of the $19.25 million record generated late last year by...
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REAL Trends: The Thousand Top Realtors in America, 2020
2020 Individuals by Volume
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Private Libraries that Inspire
Forget the Dewey Decimal System: Entrepreneur and inventor Jay Walker’s 25,000 books, manuscripts, artifacts and objects are organized in his person...
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Private Libraries That Inspire (PDF)
Forget the Dewey Decimal System: Entrepreneur and inventor Jay Walker’s 25,000 books, manuscripts, artifacts and objects are organized in his person...
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REAL Trends: The Thousand Top Realtors in America, 2019
2019 Individuals by Transaction Volume
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The Rise of the Older, Single Female Home Buyer
Leah Hoffman was looking for a house to start the next phase of her life. She doesn’t need a lot of space, and being single, she only needs to pleas...
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My Therapist Says I Can’t Close Escrow (and Other Deal Killers)
Agents Pegi DiRienzo and Joan Levinson remember the most difficult, last-minute problems that emerged just before closing a sale.
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My Therapist Says I Can’t Close Escrow (and Other Deal Killers) PDF
Two real-estate agents remember the most difficult, last-minute problems that emerged just before closing a sale, including a seller who declared a me...
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The Ranch House, Reinvented
Homeowners and architects are reinventing the low-slung ranch house with high ceilings, wide-open spaces and luxury amenities, all on a single floor
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Unaffected by interest rates, cash buyers rush to close on Paradise Valley luxury residences
This home at 8311 N. 53rd St. in Paradise Valley recently sold in an all-cash deal.
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Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill sells Paradise Valley home
Michael Bidwill's home at 7451 N. Las Brisas Lane in Paradise Valley sold after being listed only one month on the market.
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Freeport-McMoRan CEO lists Paradise Valley home
The chairman and CEO of Phoenix-based Freeport-McMoRan is downsizing and has listed his Paradise Valley mansion for sale. Click through for a glimpse ...
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Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill lists Paradise Valley home for $5.8M
The owner of the Arizona Cardinals is selling his Paradise Valley home. But don't worry, says the luxury real estate agent who listed the home, he's n...
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Most-Productive Phoenix-Area Residential Real Estate Agents Sept 2022 – JAL #1
List gathered with the help of local residential real estate brokerages. Information points include: 2021 local dollar sales volume ($30M minimum), nu...
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Joan Levinson Number One Individual Real Estate Agent in Valley, 2022
List gathered with the help of local residential real estate brokerages. Information points include: 2021 local dollar sales volume ($30M minimum), nu...
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Vacant Paradise Valley lot sells for $11M; Joan Levinson had both sides of the listing
While the Valley's housing market may be in cool-down mode, the luxury sector is still going strong. Here's another example.
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Largest vacant land parcel in Paradise Valley hits market at $55M
A 27-acre parcel in an exclusive area of Paradise Valley has been sitting undeveloped for 50 years and is now listed for $55 million.
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‘ENDLESS DEMAND’
With few empty parcels of land remaining in the Valley's most prized neighborhoods for new mansions, lot prices for luxury homes are reaching stratosp...
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Highest priced home sales 2021 Phoenix
The Valley’s residential real estate market had another banner year, with the top-selling house coming in at $21.5 million. Click through to see the...
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Highest Price Phoenix Luxury Homes October 2021
October was yet another big month for luxury real estate sales in the Valley, with the top-selling home selling for $21.5 million. Click to see inside...
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Joan Levinson Number One Individual Real Estate Agent in Valley 2021
The largest residential real estate brokerages in the June 25 Residential Real Estate Brokerages list were asked to supply information on individual a...
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Most Productive Phoenix-Area Residential RE Agents
Ranked by Dollar volume, 2020
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Arizona Coyotes owner pays $12.1M for Paradise Valley mansion; 2 hockey players sell homes
The main home and two casitas on the property in Paradise Valley total nearly 23,000 square feet, with unimpeded views of Camelback Mountain. Meanwhil...
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California homebuilder pays $16M for 155 acres in Goodyear
The acquisition of 616 building lots in Goodyear is the largest homesite acquisition for the homebuilder in the Grand Canyon State to date.
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Parents of a New York Jets player paid $12.3M cash for Paradise Valley mansion
The parents of the center for the New York Jets paid cash for a Paradise Valley mansion. That home and a Peoria mansion with a tennis court and 12-car...
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Former MLB outfielder and Playboy model sell their Scottsdale home
Former Cleveland Guardians’ outfielder Grady Sizemore and his wife Brittany Binger, a former Playboy model, sold a north Scottsdale mansion on more ...
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Mansion Sells for $23.5M, Setting Paradise Valley Record.
An 18,500-square-foot Paradise Valley estate has sold for $23.5 million in cash, setting a new record for the posh town.
The opulent home has four ...
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Top metro Phoenix home sales in 2023
Former Arizona Cardinals defensive end J.J. Watt and his wife, Kealia Watt, a National Women's Soccer League free agent, paid $7 million cash for a ho...
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Arizona Cardinals player pays $5M for new Scottsdale home
Features of the priciest metro Phoenix homes to sell in mid-March include a secret garden
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Pricey Phoenix home sales: Room for 1,800 bottles of wine, an 8-car garage
The most expensive homes to sell in the Valley during the first week of January were in Paradise Valley, Scottsdale and Phoenix's "Arcadia lite.&...
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Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill sells metro Phoenix mansion
The estate has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms, three elevators, an 1,800-bottle wine room and a theater with rows of leather reclining chairs.
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A 9,100-square-foot Paradise Valley mansion sells for $7.5M cash
Features of the priciest metro Phoenix homes to sell last week include a home theater
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Paradise Valley mansion with private jogging path and putting green sells for $12M
Putting greens, sports courts and game rooms were popular features in the most expensive
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Arizona Coyotes owner buys $12.1M home in Paradise Valley
A basketball court, heated floors, a "beautiful" motor court and a "gentleman's library"
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Million-dollar home sales are soaring in metro Phoenix. Here’s who is buying them.
Metro Phoenix is drawing more millionaires, or at least buyers who can pay $1 million or more
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Paradise Valley Mansion with 25-person elevator, shooting rage sells for $14.25 million
About $40 million in total was spent on the five priciest homes to sell in metro Phoenix this week
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Paradise Valley Mansion with more bathrooms than bedrooms sells for $13.5 million
Paradise Valley mansions dominated this week's list of metro Phoenix's priciest home sales
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$4.5M PV home with a barrel-vaulted herringbone brick kitchen ceiling among priciest home sales
Resort-style back yards were a popular amenity with buyers of this week's priciest homes
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Modern showpiece in Paradise Valley sells for $5.1M, topping luxury home sales list
An attorney, doctor, software CEO, salon owner and real estate agent are among the buyers
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