| Metric | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $929K–$2.4M | Assessor FCV, 2026 |
| Resale / sqft | $345–$742 | recorded sales |
| Real build / sqft | $222–$375 | grossed-up median |
| Permits analyzed | 5,805 | since 2020 |
Why Phoenix is a renovation market, not a moving market
Phoenix is a renovation market hiding in plain sight. A decade of price appreciation plus the lowest mortgage rates in history left tens of thousands of high-equity owners sitting on sub-4% loans — and the math of selling to trade up (6–8% in transaction costs, a reset to today’s ~7% rate) now favors staying and renovating for most of them. Yet the renovation process stayed broken: fragmented contractors, opaque pricing, and financing that only lends on current value, not what the home will be worth after.
ExpandEase fixes the whole path. We anchor on the high-equity, aging-stock neighborhoods where the math is strongest — Arcadia, North Central Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Paradise Valley — and handle design, permitting, ARV-based financing, contractor matching, and milestone-verified construction as one coordinated process. Every number we quote is calibrated to real Maricopa County permits and resale data for your specific neighborhood, not national averages.
- Tens of thousands of high-equity owners on sub-4% mortgages — renovating beats selling for most of them.
- Build cost near $350–$400/sqft against neighborhood resale that climbs to $742/sqft in the strongest zips: well-scoped projects manufacture equity.
- One team for design, financing, contractor, and build — no stitching together an architect, a lender, and a GC yourself.
- Every estimate calibrated to real permits and resale data for your exact Phoenix neighborhood.
What Phoenix homeowners build with us
We focus on projects in the $300K–$2M range — additions, gut renovations, and casitas, not single-room remodels.
- Whole-home renovation ($300K–$900K) — Mid-level gut to full reconfiguration, keeping your home, your lot, and your rate.
- Primary suite addition ($250K–$400K) — The most common first project — add the suite the original floor plan never had.
- Major addition + remodel ($350K–$650K) — Add square footage and bring the rest of the home up to the new standard.
- Detached casita / ADU ($250K–$450K) — Guest house, rental, or multigenerational suite — by-right on most Phoenix lots.
- Full gut / custom-level rebuild ($700K–$2M) — Custom-build finish at ~$400+/sqft toward a $690/sqft neighborhood ceiling.
One team, one locked plan — the whole renovation
- Design, at cost — architectural plans, 3D renders, and a permit-ready set, handed over at cost as the first deliverable. None of our margin lives in the paper.
- ARV-based financing — loans against your home’s after-repair value, behind your existing first mortgage, so your low locked rate stays untouched.
- Permitting & HOA/ARC — city permits and any HOA or architectural-review submittal designed for and managed up front, never a mid-build surprise.
- A vetted contractor — a scope-locked, pre-funded, permitted project handed to a vetted general contractor; no lead-gen marketplace, no bid roulette.
- Milestone-verified build — geo-tagged photo and video draws replace the bank inspector; you watch progress on a dashboard while we run the project.