The Scottsdale Real Estate Files: Arizona: Scottsdale: Mccormick Ranch

Just about anyone who has spent any time at all in Scottsdale is familiar with the planned community of McCormick Ranch.  A community which includes some 23,000+ residents, many are less familiar with the approximately 50 individual subdivisions that fall under its umbrella.  With radical differences in architecture, amenities, pricing, etc from one subdivision to the next, a prospective home buyer will need to drill down further than general awareness of the McCormick Ranch community at large to find the specific pocket that best suits his/her needs.  With this in mind, we launched our McCormick Ranch Subdivision Series.

Featuring individual spotlights for the various subdivisions that compose McCormick Ranch, you now have a one-stop resource shop for everything you want to know about Scottsdale's first master planned community.  Builder overviews, subdivision statistics, editorial opinion, neighborhood values, homes for sale, amenities, school info, new listing feeds, photos, maps, street views, floor plans ... this is as comprehensive as McCormick Ranch Real Estate gets.

This page serves as an overview to the subdivision spotlights.  Peruse the subdivision map of McCormick Ranch, or choose a subdivision link by name from the tables below.

For a detailed review of the community on a macro level, visit our McCormick Ranch in Scottsdale AZ page.

You can also skip directly to our McCormick Ranch Home Floor Plans page if you know the subdivision/builder you seek.

North McCormick Ranch (Chaparral High School District)

South McCormick Ranch (Saguaro High School District)

Ready to buy, sell or rent in McCormick Ranch?  Give Ray & Paul a call.  We're the agents that other agents Google for McCormick Ranch Real Estate information.

(480) 220-2337 | paul@scottsdalepropertyshop.com

You are mired that age old Scottsdale Real Estate quandary:  You want a central location in an established community, but you don't want the older construction that typically attends such preferred locales.  

You love the walking paths, lakes, nearby shops, schools, mature landscaping with honest to goodness trees (In the desert?  Who knew?).  You could do without the brass fixtures and 4x4 inch porcelain tile that look like holdovers from the set of the Partridge Family, however.

At some point in every Scottsdale home buyer's journey, a choice must be made.  Will location and community amenities win out, or will the tug of newer construction pull the intrepid Real Estate explorer further off the beaten path (and into the desert reaches of the McDowell Mountain foothills north of the Loop 101 freeway corridor).  There is no right choice.  Both options boast strong resale potential (yes, I am aware of the irony that attends the notion of resale value in the modern foreclosure jungle) for the very criteria that make such a choice an excruciating one to make.

What if I were to tell you that you didn't have to compromise, however?  Amongst the renowned planned communities that lie within the bounds of central Scottsdale, there are a few pocket niches of infill and newer semi-custom homes that defy neighborhood norms.  

For example, the McCormick Ranch subdivision of Estate Los Arboles (in the Paseo Village area of Southern McCormick Ranch) includes a handful of semi-custom Hancock homes that were built in the 1990s to round out a neighborhood that was originally developed between 1979-1980.  Such homes do not come on the market often, but are one mere example of newer construction that you can find in the planned community stalwart.

Read more about Estate Los Arboles in McCormick Ranch>>>

Or explore the McCormick Ranch overview for information on neighboring subdivisions, floor plans, homes currently for sale (or rent) and more.

I sell McCormick Ranch Real Estate.

Shocking, I know, to many long-term readers of this forum.  However, it has been quite some time since I last directed the focus of this blog to my first housing love.  Not one to take my significant other for granted, it is far past time I renewed my vows.

I have actually been preparing them for the past few weeks over at the Scottsdale Property Shop Blog in the form of subdivision spotlights, maps, live listing feeds of homes for sale, floor plans ... my labor of love is an early summer sonnet for Scottsdale's first master planned community.

For the only library of McCormick Ranch Real Estate and home information you will ever need, follow me to the Scottsdale Property Shop.  And let your own courtship begin.

While still a work in progress, show me the relationship that isn't.

Everything you ever wanted to know about McCormick Ranch >>>

As promised in last week's teaser, one of the better bargains that you will ever find in McCormick Ranch is here.  Nestled in the Villa La Playa subdivision that abuts the southern end of the McCormick Ranch Golf Course, this 1908 square foot Dietz Crane home is an exceptional value at the entry level price of ...

$329,000

Boasting a swimming pool and a rare 3 car garage, this home has been priced to not only compete with the bank-owned and short sale listings, but to beat them! 

No busy streets to contend with here.  Just a great 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with exceptional curb appeal on a North/South lot that could stand a little updating.  The home has been very well maintained by the current owner, but our buyer will most likely want to perform a cosmetic overhaul.  As such, your blank canvas has been priced sublimely low to more than allow its next proud owner to gain some instant sweat equity while tailoring it to his/her taste.

Other features include a wood-burning fireplace, vaulted living room ceiling, block construction (finished with stucco), full tile roof, private front and rear patios and a kitchen that opens to the family room. 

In a neighborhood with properties currently listed in the $500,000-$650,000 range, this may be a gift horse, but we'd be much obliged if you'd come look in its mouth.  You will be pleasantly surprised with how livable the home is at this price point, even while making plans for your upgrades of choice. 

Don't forget all of those fabulous McCormick Ranch amenities that attracted you to this finest of planned communities in a prime central Scottsdale location either.  Golf, lakes, walking paths, parks, restaurants, shopping and award-winning schools (this home is located in the district of the newly reconstructed Saguaro High School) ... seriously, why are you still reading?  Pick up the phone and call us before someone else does!

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Did you ever in a million years of collective consciousness think you would see this price point again in McCormick Ranch?  Neither did we.  And just to reitterate, that price again is ...

$329,000!

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Ray & Paul Slaybaugh

Realty Executives

Your McCormick Ranch Real Estate Experts

(480) 948-9450

paul@rayandpaul.com

(listen to the kid, he's quite precocious)

Are you ready?  I said ARE YOU READY?

Value is about to come waltzing into the McCormick Ranch Real Estate market, so I suggest you put on your dancing shoes.

Priced in line with the bank owned properties that back up to busy streets, this Dietz Crane home is neither bank owned, nor on a busy street.  It needs a cosmetic facelift, and the realistic owner is providing the lucky buyer with the scalpel of an incredibly low price of ... wait for it ...

$329,000!

Boasting a full tile roof, pool, rare 3 car garage, block construction, nearly 2000 square feet, North/South exposure, wood burning fireplace, private front courtyard and close proximity to the McCormick Ranch Golf Course, this home in Villa La Playa is just the giveaway you have been looking for in a neighborhood that includes properties currently listed up to $649,000.

We hit the MLS with this bad boy shortly, but don't be shy about giving us a call prior to the launch date.  We'll get you inside for a look before the flood of investors and rehabbers is loosed upon it like the marauding band of pillagers that they are.

By all means, bring your contractors, but bring your checkbook, too.  If you can find a better deal in McCormick Ranch, buy it!

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Ray & Paul Slaybaugh

Realty Executives

Your McCormick Ranch Experts

For all of your Scottsdale AZ Real Estate needs

(480) 948-9450

paul@rayandpaul.com