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Building Prices in the Sedona AZ Home Market

Posted By: Barbara Baker In: Sedona Real Estate
Date: Thu, Dec 16th 2010 1:08 pm

What's a buyer to do these days when buying a Sedona AZ Home for Sale. Do they buy an existing home with the idea that it is less costly to buy than it is to buy a vacant piece of dirt and build? That used to be the standard. However, while the Sedona AZ home prices fell for the last several years - so did the vacant dirt. Let's remember the financing for for land and construction loans dried up.  Lender's shut their doors and many great and qualified general contractors and builders had to go get 2nd jobs. While the tide is a changin...according to Chris Dolan, president of Casa Natural Construction, building costs have fallen as much as 15%. And what used to cost $300.00 a square foot can now be built for $255.00 a square foot.  That is quite a savings.  And more modest homes can be built with the latest in "green technology" for $153.00 a square foot.  This is all good news for vacant land buyer's who bought at the high end of the Sedona AZ Home market and in the past couldn't afford to build and it is good news for the buyer who isn't quite finding the right home in our current inventory.  

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