41413 N 95TH Street #259 Scottsdale, AZ 85262

Welcome to Saguaro Forest 259, a 43,578 square foot, east facing, fairway and mountain view, custom homesite nestled deep into the mountainside of Saguaro Forest. The most prestigious and sought after village in Desert Mountain for it's breathtaking views, additional security, convenient proximity to Constantino's Italian Restaurant, and the ranch at the top of the mountain.
Details are below, but the private club in the development offers its members access to seven golf courses and seven major clubhouses. This site offers fine views of the par-5 15th fairway and green on the Club's most scenic golf course, Chiricahua, set in a total of nearly 12 acres of open space. The cart path on the hole is no closer than about 105 yards away, so you will not have to be subjected to much good views of grass, and a very comfortable climate twelve months out of the year. The site is a "knob" lot, with a reasonably broad ridge running across the lot, making it possible to lop off the top of the ridge and build a home with no interior steps, if desired. Architect Terry Kilbane has done some "test" drawings showing the site's suitability for a 4,700 square foot home.

Desert Mountain is in a very quiet, serene, safe, secure, and beautiful location, spread east to west across the foothills of the Continental Mountains on the northern edge of Scottsdale, with homes at elevations ranging from 2,600' to 3,500' ASL. Thousands of giant Saguaro cacti create a very distinctive landscape, a "signature look" for Arizona and the desert Southwest. All Desert Mountain owners enjoy the use of a nearly twenty-mile-long private trail system in the mountains at the back of the development (about a five-minute drive away from this site) for hiking, running, and mountain biking. The trails get up to 4,500' ASL and enjoy amazing panoramic views out over the entire Valley of the Sun. Members of the Desert Mountain Club can rent horses for trail rides. Seven golf courses (six Jack Nicklaus Signature championship golf courses and one eighteen-hole par-3 course), four practice ranges, and a high-tech golf performance center cover the golf needs of Club Members.

For their social, dining, spa, and fitness needs, the Club has seven major clubhouses with ten different dining venues for the exclusive use of its Members. The "Sonoran Clubhouse" is the Club's fabulous swim (three pools), tennis (nine courts, including one grass, five Har-Tru, and three cushioned hard courts), fitness, spa, pickleball (six courts), bocce (two courts), and croquet facility (two courts). It also has a popular indoor/outdoor restaurant. This clubhouse was completely renovated during 2016 and 2017 at a cost in excess of $12,000,000. It is now perhaps the premier facility of its type in the entire Southwest. The other clubhouses are special in their own rights and combine to provide a terrific range of experiences for the Members. A membership to the Desert Mountain Club is not included but is available from the Club.

Desert Mountain is a very successful development in very high demand, especially from people in California, Oregon, and Washington. As of December 28th, contracts on homes were up 191% year-to-date over 2019. At that time, there were approximately 1,901 finished homes, ranging in size from 1,800 to over 20,000 square feet, and in price from about $800,000 to $16,500,000. About 63 homes were under construction, but only 45 finished homes were on the market, just 2.37% of inventory (ten percent is considered "normal"). So, we were and continue to be in a very active real estate market. Owners have invested over $30,000,000 in individual homes. Desert Mountain has attracted full-and part-time residents, mostly from all over North America and western Europe. Virtually all of them seem to have made "having fun", particularly with a golf club in their hands, a key priority in their lives. Besides fun and great golf, another thing that keeps them in a good mood is real estate taxes that are strikingly lower than what they may have been used to, particularly if "home" is or was in the Northeast, Midwest, or California. (2020 taxes on this homesite were only $3,184).

Desert Mountain's weather is famously dry and sunny. Our risk of natural disasters is extremely low. Being higher and somewhat removed from the city means the stars are bright at night, the air typically much cleaner, and the daytime high temperatures about ten degrees cooler than the Valley floor, every day of the year. Summers are very enjoyable since it only gets over 100 degrees about ten or twelve days a year here, compared to ninety days at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, with humidity low. At night in the summer, the temperatures drop fifteen to twenty degrees, a significant difference from life on the Valley floor. You would be amazed at how comfortable 95 degrees is at night or in the shade. So, being in Desert Mountain on a year 'round basis is a very attractive proposition.

Day-to-day shopping needs for Desert Mountain owners are well-handled within about a ten-minute drive by the merchants in the nearby towns of Carefree and Cave Creek. There are roughly 70 restaurants and bars within about sixteen minutes' drive. Our area is famous for world-class shopping, major league and collegiate sports, terrific air service, and a wide variety of cultural attractions. Desert Mountain's Main Gate is about a forty-five-minute drive to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. Private jets come and go from Scottsdale Airport, about a twenty-five-minute drive from the Front Gate. Desert Mountain is within two and a half hours by car of normally excellent snow skiing in Flagstaff and offers easy access to the entire American West, including San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, and a plethora of unbelievably beautiful places in Southern Utah. "Paradise" does not overstate it.