Scottsdale 85251

Maricopa County, AZ · 19,444 properties · updated 7/26/2026

Should you buy here?buyer-timing lens

41affordability /100

Buyer leverage is seller slight; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.

Payment burden

36.6%

severe

Days on market

daily

Price cuts

32.5%

of active

Valuation

-45.7%

vs assessor

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Weak

cooling · seller slight · prices easing year-over-year.

Price trend

Affordability

Valuation

Economic health

Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.

Buyer / sellerbuyer-timing lens

Balanced Market

Needs 18% correction for affordability

DOM: 98d (stable) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly

Score Components

Payment Burden (25%)50

Valuation Gap (25%)10

Supply & Demand (20%)20

Buy vs Rent (15%)75

Cancellation Rate (10%)50

Days on Market (5%)100

Balanced market in 85251. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 35.9% of median income. Median days on market: 98. Renting is approximately 85% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 22.2).

Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.

COOLINGSELLER SLIGHT

Market is cooling with expanding inventory. Sellers hold a slight edge.

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Market snapshoteach number, once

Median price

$525,865

▾ 0.1% YoY

Days on market

daily · zip_data

Median rent

$2,015

ZORI

Investor score

40/100

cash-flow lens

Active listings

444

90-day

Valuation3 lenses, different anchors

vs assessor

-45.7%

Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.

Avg assessor$285,700

county CAMA · properties_v

vs income

—

Fair-value model not available for this market.

fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage

vs county comps

+70.4%

County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.

Maricopa+70.4%

Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap

Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.

Pricing detail

Price / sqft$281

Price-to-income5.9×

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How 85251 ranks in AZ

percentile vs all Arizona ZIPs · n=398

Market velocity31%

Supply tightness64%

Affordability33%

Investment yield43%

Appreciation53%

Affordability, supply & momentum

54SUPPLY

Tight MarketSupply Tightness

Supply is below normal — sellers are favored but buyers still have options.

Months of Supply2.6 mo

Days on Market79d

Inv vs History-7.5%

Listing Density20.2/1k

Affordability — payment burden

Monthly payment (P&I)$2,717

Payment burden36.6%

Median income · ZIP$89,151

Mortgage rate6.71% · 30yr

Total monthly own$3,243

Monthly rent$2,015

Market dynamics

Price cut %32.5%

Momentumcooling

LeverageSELLER SLIGHT

Months of supply2.6

Sales (90d)0

Investment analysis

Median rent$2,015

Price-to-rent22.2

Est. cap rate2.9%

Buy vs rentfavors renting

Livability

Walk score10

Transit score1

Bike score—

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Price bandsmix-shift

Price Bands — the median behind the median

A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Maricopa.

Aggregate median +14.8% YoY in this ZIP, but the under-$500k tier is -4.1% — the rise is mix shift, not appreciation. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 46.0% to 36.5% (-9.6pp) and the $1M+ share from 18.9% to 26.6% (+7.7pp).

Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier

Tier	Median	$/sqft	Sales	Share	Source
Under $250k	$216k	$309	42	6.5%	ZIP
$250k–$500k	$354k	$331	195	30.0%	ZIP
$500k–$750k	$602k	$397	156	24.0%	ZIP
$750k–$1M	$856k	$477	84	12.9%	ZIP
$1M–$1.5M	$1.21M	$562	68	10.5%	ZIP
$1.5M–$2M	$1.74M	$739	33	5.1%	ZIP
$2M+	$3.23M	$967	72	11.1%	ZIP
All sales (the headline median)	$631k	$398	650	100%	ZIP

Share of sales by tier (quarterly)

If the upper tiers widen over time, the headline median rises on composition alone.

Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
$1.5M–$2M
$2M+

Median within each tier, against the headline median (quarterly)

The blue line is the single number NAR-style reporting quotes. The gold lines are what each tier actually did. Log scale — the tiers span an order of magnitude, and on a log axis equal slopes mean equal percentage moves, which is the comparison being made.

Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
$1.5M–$2M
$2M+
All sales (headline)

National context — not local

NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the West census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 85251.

United States
West

Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.

Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.

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Maricopa County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration

ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.

ZIP 85251→Maricopa County, AZ

12-Month Direction

-7Stable

Confidence

100%

DeterioratingStableImproving

BuildersLens Market Intelligence

Market Score

41· Weak

Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.

Payment Burden45

33.2%

stretched

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Buy vs Rent6

1.915x

rent advantage

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Valuation11

+70.4%

overvalued

Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15