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Looking for a shiny brand new home in Phoenix? One that no one has ever lived in before? A place where every ding, scratch, and spill is all yours?

Now you can search for new construction homes and community homes in the Phoenix area, right here on your favorite Phoenix real estate web site! Why you never need to leave this site again. Go ahead, make Phoenix Real Estate Guy your home page. I’ll wait”¦

Many new home builders in the Valley include their homes in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), which you’ve always been able to search here. But many builders don’t include homes in the MLS, and even with those that do, the new homes are jumbled in with existing / resale homes ”“ and it is virtually impossible to create a search that is exclusively new construction homes.

Now your problem is solved. You can search for Phoenix area new construction homes and home builder inventory right here.

The new home listings are fed into this system directly by home builders. Not every Phoenix home builder is included yet, but the list grows daily. Major Valley home builders like Pulte, Meritage, Ashton Woods, Shea, Beazer, Lennar, Fulton, Toll Brothers and many more are feeding listings to the site.

Already completed “move in ready” spec homes, homes under construction, and models ready to be built can all be found in developments across the Valley.

Since the info comes directly from the builders, you will also get current up-to-date information on builder specials and discounts. Try the “Advanced Search” and you can search by school district, community, home builder, “hot deals” and more.

It’s flexible, powerful and yet easy to use.

And you won’t find is on very many Phoenix area real estate sites.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that yes, if you are going to buy a new home you should have your own real estate agent representing you. Walk into the new model homes and you will no doubt be greeted by a smiling and very charming sales person. Take a look at the badge they have on their shirt/dress/jacket. On that badge you will see their name, and the name of the home builder. That home builder is their boss. Yep, they work for the home builder and as such have the builders best interest in mind. You need an agent with YOUR best interest in mind. It won’t cost you a dime and no, you won’t get “a killer discount!” using the builder’s agent. Use your own agent. If you need one, well I have some suggestions for you”¦

Give the new home search a whirl and let me know what you think!

This post will be mostly of interest two types of people:

The nerdy set of agents, especially those using the Diverse Solutions IDX product dsSearchAgent.
Our existing home search users who have a sense of adventure and like to try new things.

The boys at Diverse Solutions are busy spinning up the latest and greatest enhancements to their home search solution, and we’ve been given the opportunity to test is out.

If you are a registered user of our current home search, your existing login and password should work on the Beta version.

You can find the Beta version here. It’s also available under “Search for Homes” in the nav bar under the header graphic.

And of course the existing version is still here.

What is different between the current home search and the new Beta version home search? Diverse Solutions provides some details:

Interface has been completely updated with a more up-to-date design style
Client register and login links have been moved to a more prominent location

The search panel:

There is now a universal search box.
You can search by county, city, community, area, tract, zip code, address and MLS#.
The search box is more intuitive than before with its auto-complete suggestions.
There is no longer a search button. It has been replaced with a prominently displayed view results button that recalculates and displays the number of results as you adjust the various criteria.
Sliders and text boxes have been restyled.
There is now a base set of criteria that is preset and underneath is list of additional criteria that can added if they wish to narrow their search further.
Parking, property status and has photos criteria have been added.

The results panel:

First and foremost you will notice that we have done away with the scrolling buttons. We have replaced it with an intuitive scroll box that allows for faster browsing and no scrolling on smaller low resolution monitors.
We have also reformatted each result to be less cluttered and more legible

The map panel is similar to how we had it before with the exception of moving a few things around and hooking up the instant results to map movement.

The details panel:

This panel has been completely redesigned to be less cluttered and more readable by putting the most important information for consumers up top.
There is a lot more space devoted to photos now with the ability to see all the photos without leaving the page for quick viewing.
In addition, there is a large "View Large Photos" button clearly visible that will bring up a newly designed large photo viewer.
We have added a "Have Questions" button so that consumers can easily contact you.
Previous and next buttons have been added for easier browsing through the search results. As a consumer progresses through the results will scroll along with them.
We have added various ways for them to share property with the "Share" feature at the top (note: Facebook will be added shortly).
When the details panel is being viewed there are two new areas that have been added under the results panel — one is a contact form and the other is a mortgage calculator.

Screen shot of the current version of the Diverse Solutions Phoenix Home Search:

Screen shot of the beta version of the Diverse Solutions Phoenix Home Search:

Feel free to give the Beta version a spin! There may be bugs, and some assorted goofiness. In brief testing, most issues I’ve found are minor, and mostly only seen when using Internet Explorer (reason #12,862 to get off IE and onto a less problematic web browser). I know the crack coders at DS are hard at work squashing bugs and working on the IE issues. If you see any wonkiness, feel free to drop a comment here or on the beta version page and I’ll forward them to the development team.

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