Doug Miles, Arizona Realtor

The Valley of the Sun is the best place to live, raise a family and retire in the United States!

The Valley of the Sun is not the rough Southwestern country it used to be. Scottsdale, voted "the Most Livable City" in the United States by the United States Conference of Mayors has come a long way from when it was a small Pima village named Vasai Svasoni. Valley-wide, over the past decade, quiet semi-retirement communities now explode with a diversity of nightlife, sports, shopping and resort-style activity. The range of housing prices range from affordable safe neighborhoods to high end luxury, all benefiting from Arizona's low property taxes, beautiful climate and incomparable views.

The Valley of the Sun offers a little bit of everything whether you have a taste for sports, cultural events, or the outdoors. We have professional football, baseball, basketball, and hockey teams, as well as nearly 190 golf courses – including several ranked among the most elite in the world by both players and leading golf publications.

Yearly, our residents and visitors enjoy the FBR Open, the Barrett-Jackson Auto Show, the Arabian Horse Show, Cactus League Baseball (MLB spring training), and countless art exhibitions and culinary fairs.

The Valley also offers hot air ballooning, the ASU campus and Mill Ave in Tempe, the Heard Museum, the Phoenix Zoo, the Desert Botanical Gardens, world class health care and public schools, lake boating, hiking, climbing, horseback riding, off road vehicles, bicycling, and did I mention golf?