Carefree 85377

Maricopa County, AZ · 2,728 properties · updated 7/26/2026

Should you buy here?buyer-timing lens

14affordability /100

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

Payment burden

52.8%

severe

Days on market

139

daily

Price cuts

21.0%

of active

Valuation

-75.8%

vs assessor

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/100

Weak

warming · balanced · prices rising 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

Negotiate Hard

Needs 43.2% correction for affordability

DOM: 54d (falling) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly

Score Components

Payment Burden (25%)100

Valuation Gap (25%)80

Supply & Demand (20%)20

Buy vs Rent (15%)100

Cancellation Rate (10%)75

Days on Market (5%)60

Moderate buyer leverage in 85377. Room to negotiate 5-10% below list. Payment burden: 52.1% of median income. A 33% price correction needed to reach 30% affordability threshold. Median days on market: 54. Renting is approximately 483% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 70.0). Market appears 21% overpriced vs. assessed values.

What to Offer

Offer 5-10% below list. You have room to negotiate.

Conditions resemble 2019 pre-pandemic levels — moderate overvaluation with slowing demand. Negotiation room exists.

WARMINGBALANCED

Market is warming with rising prices. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers.

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Market snapshoteach number, once

Median price

$1,221,156

▴ 2.2% YoY

Days on market

139

daily · zip_data

Median rent

$1,467

ZORI

Investor score

26/100

cash-flow lens

Active listings

90-day

Valuation3 lenses, different anchors

vs assessor

-75.8%

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

Avg assessor$295,834

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$421

Price-to-income8.6×

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How 85377 ranks in AZ

percentile vs all Arizona ZIPs · n=398

Market velocity12%

Supply tightness92%

Affordability8%

Investment yield1%

Appreciation84%

Affordability, supply & momentum

61SUPPLY

Tight MarketSupply Tightness

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

Months of Supply2.6 mo

Days on Market139d

Inv vs History-24.2%

Listing Density12.9/1k

Affordability — payment burden

Monthly payment (P&I)$6,310

Payment burden52.8%

Median income · ZIP$143,315

Mortgage rate6.71% · 30yr

Total monthly own$7,532

Monthly rent$1,467

Market dynamics

Price cut %21.0%

Momentumwarming

LeverageBALANCED

Months of supply2.6

Sales (90d)0

Investment analysis

Median rent$1,467

Price-to-rent70.0

Est. cap rate0.9%

Buy vs rentfavors renting

Livability

Walk score2

Transit score—

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 +2.0% YoY in Maricopa, AZ (county), but the under-$500k tier is +0.0% — the aggregate and the entry tier are moving together. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 55.5% to 53.5% (-1.9pp) and the $1M+ share from 9.6% to 10.6% (+1.0pp).

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

1 tier had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row.

Tier	Median	$/sqft	Sales	Share	Source
Under $250k	$200k	$204	2,869	—	COUNTY · Maricopa, AZ
$250k–$500k	$388k	$338	21	19.8%	ZIP
$500k–$750k	$603k	$321	14	13.2%	ZIP
$750k–$1M	$875k	$383	18	17.0%	ZIP
$1M–$1.5M	$1.30M	$462	22	20.8%	ZIP
$1.5M–$2M	$1.70M	$506	17	16.0%	ZIP
$2M+	$2.58M	$619	12	11.3%	ZIP
All sales (the headline median)	$975k	$417	106	100%	ZIP

ZIP-level history was too thin to draw the tiers; served at county level (Maricopa, AZ), by quarter.

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 85377.

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 85377→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