I went on the Willo Neighborhood Home Tour yesterday (Sunday), which included several neighborhood streets lined with vendors, about 15 homes open to tour, and probably the same amount of other homes for sale that were having open houses.
Willo is an historic neighborhood basically located west of Midtown Phoenix from roughly 7th Ave to Central and Thomas to McDowell. The homes were built from the early 1920s to the 1940s, with many different styles of architecture. The predominant style in the northern section (newer section) of the neighborhood is the ranch and "red brick" ranch, and in the southern half there are all types and styles, revivals, bungalows, etc. Many are relatively pretty small, although plenty of room for a family or someone like me. Typical size is 1,500 to 2,500SF or so.
The prices for the nicely renovated homes (which is nearly all of them) range from roughly $400,000 to $750,000 and higher. I went in an open house that was for sale for $950,000.
Here are some snap shots from the home tour (inside the houses you weren't suppose to take pictures, so I mainly have point and shoots of random houses in the neighborhood).
ps, people either plant winter grass, or they have the yellow/brown dormant summer grass.
Typical palm-lined street (usually sans so many cars):
Near the vendors (not shown) and an open house:
Apparently the only "Dutch Colonial" style home in Willo (1920s):
You'll notice the river stones used as a facade in a couple places, these were taken from the Salt River (just south of downtown) and used in home construction and architecture back in the day.
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