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Tyler Kane appraises Scottsdale homes for purchase, refinance, PMI removal, FHA, divorce, estate and pre listing work, from north Phoenix (ZIP 85029). Type the address above or use the request form for a fee quote.
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Scottsdale sells near twice the county price: Redfin put the city median at $906,900 for August 2026, up 9.3 percent in a year, against $473,406 for Maricopa County. That one figure covers 1980s patio homes off Shea and two acre lots at Whisper Rock, so comps come from the same pocket as the subject.
The 2026 FHA one unit limit for Maricopa County is $557,750 (homebuyer.com), so most FHA files here are condos, townhomes and smaller older houses. Condo buyers should ask the lender early whether the complex has FHA approval.
The ten neighborhoods with their own pages are left out here; years built and lot sizes below come from Maricopa County Assessor parcel records unless another source is named.
Off 96th Street between Thunderbird and Cactus roads in 85260, Sweetwater Ranch has about 753 homes built mostly 1984 to 1991, largely by UDC Homes (Zona Team). Patio homes, townhomes and detached houses all carry the name. Tyler sorts sales by home type first, then by pocket, such as the Manor or Estates.
Ancala spreads over about 850 acres of 85259 hillside, with 542 custom sites and 42 casita homes inside its gates. Pete Dye's course opened in 1991, and the private club's membership is separate from owning a house. A casita sale won't stand in for a custom estate, so Tyler confirms which kind sold.
Gated Stonegate sits near 112th Street and Mountain View Road. Building began in the early 1990s and the last home was finished in 2005, by Geoffrey H. Edmunds and Associates, Saddleback Homes, Golden Heritage Homes and custom builders. County plats split it into numbered parcels, and builder plus parcel often explain a price gap.
Desert Estates is a string of recorded units in the Scottsdale part of 85254, many on lots near an acre. Houses run from 1953 originals to builds finished in 2026. When an original and a new custom home share a block, Tyler weighs the land on its own before the house enters the grid.
Del Webb built Terravita from 1993 to 1998: 1,380 homes in 23 neighborhoods on 823 acres in 85266, behind a 24 hour guard gate. The private 18 hole course is by Greg Nash and Billy Casper. Sales inside the gate come first, matched by neighborhood and by whether the lot fronts the course.
Two hundred guard gated home sites sit on 800 acres in 85266, from one to five acres and about two on average. The Lower course (Phil Mickelson and Gary Stephenson) opened in 2001, the Upper (Tom Fazio) in 2005. Sales are thin, so every lot size and view adjustment is spelled out.
Toll Brothers built about 700 semi custom homes here from 2004 to 2017, beside the Gateway Trailhead of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in 85255. Most streets are behind a guard gate and one section uses an electronic gate. Tyler notes which gate each comp sits behind and whether it backs open desert.
Mirabel lies south of Cave Creek Road about two miles east of Pima Road, directly south of Desert Mountain: 345 home sites on 700 acres in 85262, guard gated, around a par 71 Tom Fazio course. Membership is its own purchase question, so Tyler checks what each comp's price did and didn't include.
Scottsdale Unified serves most of the city, with Paradise Valley Unified and Cave Creek Unified in parts of the north (Wikipedia). Lots backing the McDowell Sonoran Preserve are compared with other preserve lots.
Tyler's 2025 reports averaged 5.9 days, and 100 percent arrived on or before the promised date.
No fee is posted. Tyler quotes each address and report type, usually within one business day, along with the next open inspection date.
Against sales with the same gate and golf frontage, inside the same community when enough exist. At Ancala, club membership is separate from the home, so Tyler checks whether a comp's price included one.
Yes. County records show many lots near an acre in Desert Estates, North Scottsdale Estates and Sundown Ranchos, so the comp search widens before smaller lots are used.
Yes. Estate reports usually carry the date of death, divorce reports the date the attorneys or court set, both documented to USPAP.
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