Homie Blog

A home inspection is a professional review of a home’s condition, covering the major systems and structure, so you know what you are actually buying before you close. It is one of the most important steps a buyer takes, because it can reveal problems the listing photos never show. Unless you are buying brand new, an inspector will almost always find something. That is normal....

A contingent listing means the seller has accepted an offer, but the sale depends on certain conditions being met before it can close. Those conditions, called contingencies, protect the buyer or seller and let either side back out if they aren’t satisfied. In other words, the home is spoken for, but the deal is not final. If a contingency falls through, the home can return t...

In a Phoenix-metro market where prices have climbed for years, the fees tied to buying and selling have quietly climbed too, and a lot of that money never had to leave your pocket. Homie was built to fix that. We are a licensed Arizona real estate brokerage with one mission: make homeownership more affordable, and help you keep more of your own money. Here are five reasons Ar...

Zillow’s home-value index put the typical Avondale home near $398,000 in mid-2026, down a little under 2 percent on the year, while homes newly listed for sale in July carried a median closer to $453,000. That gap between what homes are worth and what sellers are asking tells you most of what you need to know about this Southwest Valley market: it sits at the affordable end o...

A decade ago American Fork was a quiet north Utah County town best known for its canyon and its hospital. Then Silicon Slopes arrived next door. The tech corridor built around Lehi and Thanksgiving Point pushed thousands of high-paying jobs to American Fork’s doorstep, and the housing market reorganized itself around that commute. In 2026 the typical American Fork home carrie...