By Catherine Reagor | The Republic
2017 is shaping up to be one of the best years for home sales in metro Phoenix.
Sales aren’t higher than the boom year of 2005 when speculators bought a record number of homes, or the bust year of 2011 when investors snapped up a record number of bargain Phoenix-area foreclosure homes.
But those years weren’t normal and definitely weren’t healthy for Phoenix’s housing market.