Arizona's highest residential transaction of 2026 closed at $20.9 million in Paradise Valley. The all-time state record stands at $33.5 million, set fourteen months earlier. Between those numbers sits an ultra-luxury tier that is compressing, accelerating, and drawing buyers from a national pool that did not exist here a decade ago.
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West Sedona is the part of town where people actually live — groceries, hardware stores, medical offices, and the local high school. The red rock formations are everywhere regardless of where you stand in Sedona, but West Sedona trades some of the tourist-facing amenity concentration of Uptown for practical livability and more land per dollar. Single-family homes on residential streets back up to public land in a way that makes the property lines feel more generous than the surveys suggest.
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