Best Exposure Position For Phoenix Houses

Excluding any preferences based on culture and beliefs, the best position is north/south for houses.

The heat is really something here: in the summer it's hot, really hot: painfully hot, but due to the dry air, it's fairly bearable. 

It's the bare sun that's truly painful. A direct hit from the sun's rays can even be deadly with enough exposure and houses bare the brunt of that exposure. 

I walk into my closet in the mornings facing east and I can feel that it's warmer than the rest of the house. 

Of course, it also depends on how the home is built. In the winter I showed a contemporary home in Central Sunnyslope that had a huge wall of glass facing south. That home in the early afternoon was an oven inside and this was January. In the summer it must be unlivable or at least painfully expensive to cool.

Condos are another matter. Units facing south like in Lexington One or Portland Place also get hot, but units on the north don't get enough natural light. In Portland Place the solution is to get the one of the corner Bauhaus units, which by the way are the best floor-plans anyways.

The answer: north south exposure, but it also depends on the house, vegitation, constructuion etc.

To view search properties by north south exposure: go to the homes search, input your criteria and select North / South Exposure under Property Description.