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Insights on Building, Remodeling & Corporate Housing
Practical guidance for homeowners planning a custom home, a renovation, or a corporate housing stay in Kansas City or Scottsdale.
Desert Ridge, AZ
Desert Ridge’s master-planned neighborhoods, built out largely since the late 1990s, give homeowners newer housing stock than much of the Phoenix metro — which shifts most of our…
Arcadia, AZ
Arcadia’s wide lots, mature citrus groves, and views toward Camelback Mountain have made it one of the most sought-after renovation and rebuild markets in the greater Phoenix area,…
Biltmore, AZ
The Biltmore corridor is one of the Phoenix metro’s most established luxury addresses, anchored by the historic Arizona Biltmore resort and framed by Camelback Mountain and Piestewa Peak.…
North Phoenix, AZ
North Phoenix sits close enough to our Carefree headquarters that it’s a natural extension of our core Arizona service area, spanning everything from newer master-planned communities near Desert…
Fountain Hills, AZ
Fountain Hills is known for two things: one of the tallest fountains in the world at its center, and some of the most dramatic view lots in the…
Cave Creek, AZ
Cave Creek sits at the high-desert edge of the Phoenix metro, where dramatic, boulder-strewn homesites near Black Mountain and the Tonto National Forest come with genuinely unique building…
Carefree, AZ
Carefree is Hickok Homes’ home base — a small, design-conscious high-desert town built around one of the largest sundials in the world and framed by boulder outcroppings and…
Paradise Valley, AZ
Paradise Valley is one of the most architecturally significant residential communities in the Southwest, tucked between Camelback and Mummy Mountain with some of the strictest hillside and view-corridor…
Cave Creek & Carefree, AZ
Cave Creek and Carefree sit at the high-desert edge of the Phoenix metro, where dramatic, boulder-strewn homesites near Black Mountain and the Tonto National Forest come with genuinely…
Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale and Paradise Valley building sites come with a different set of design questions than the Midwest: how a home reads against the McDowell Sonoran Preserve or the…