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Downsizing in Arizona: Buy the Smaller Home Before You Sell?

Published on: 11/09/2026

The kids are gone and the house is too big, but your money is in it. How Arizona empty nesters buy the smaller home first, cash vs a mortgage, the IRS home sale exclusion and a Scottsdale example. Pillar Mortgage Group.

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Company NMLS #2700076  |  AZ Mortgage Broker License MB-2009671
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Pillar Mortgage Group, LLC | 9089 E Bahia Dr, Suite 101A, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 | Company NMLS #2700076 | Arizona Mortgage Broker License MB-2009671 | Equal Housing Opportunity
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