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10651 E FERNWOOD Lane, Scottsdale, AZ 85262
Overview
Description
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(Read more) Other details of the home include: a separate storage room off the air conditioned garage, rubber tiles on the garage floor on top of a durable epoxy coating; overhead heaters on the patio, along with a misting system handy for cooling off on warm occasions; a golf course location, but not in a tee shot landing zone and with the cart path on the other side of the fairway, itself somewhat distant form the back patio; no interior steps; a wet bar that includes a hand-hammered copper sink, a small, under-counter refrigerator, and a dual zone wine cabinet; dual vanities in two bathrooms; terrific art lighting; great electronics throughout the home including being able to control the shades via voice command; high-end (Wolf, Viking, Cove) appliances in the kitchen; LG ThinQ washer and dryer in a laundry/utility room with natural light; an extensive security system including installed cameras; upscale tile flooring on the pool deck; an extra-cost, tongue-in-groove wooden ceiling system on the high, gabled roof ceiling of the Great Room; various uses of back-lit onyx countertops and facings; dual vanities in two of the three bathrooms; a firepit on the back patio; a pool for swimming laps; many mature trees around the back patio that create a verdant, "cool" setting; and a very high level of home maintenance due to having a professional property manager looking after things. Desert Mountain is a thirty-nine-year-old, 8,200 acre, gated, master-planned community with about 2,000 homes in over forty different "Villages". Nearly built out, there are only about 200 homesites yet to be built upon. It is in a noticeably quiet, serene, safe (manned entry gates; gates at each Village entry; security patrols) and beautiful location, spread east to west across the foothills of the Continental Mountains in the High Sonoran Desert on the northern edge of Scottsdale (the only thing north of Desert Mountain is the Tonto National Forest, fourth largest in the country), with homes at elevations ranging from 2,600' to 3,500' ASL. The various views these properties can provide are legendary ("city lights", "the McDowell Mountains", "sunsets", plus others, obviously including golf course views). Most owners are, or want to become, members of the Desert Mountain Club (and the only way to acquire a membership immediately upon close of escrow is to purchase property from a seller who has a membership (one of three - Full Golf, Seven (limited golf), and Lifestyle (no golf)) and is willing to give it to the Club so they can sell it to you. Property is for sale with no immediate access to any membership; however, purchasers of such property have a path only to a Full Golf Membership, via a waitlist (estimated in early May 2026 to be four to five years long) and temporary use of a Lifestyle membership. The Club's facilities include nine dining venues, seven golf courses, four practice ranges, a high-tech golf "Performance Center", and other activities in seven different clubhouses. The facilities are relentlessly maintained and improved out of cash reserves, no assessments! Virtually all of these members (who have come to the Club from Europe, the UK, Canada, and almost all American states, especially New York, Connecticut, California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and the Upper Midwest) seem to have made socializing and having fun a key priority. There is a LOT to do and they "get after it"! The home is offered with optional access to the seller's "Seven" membership in the Desert Mountain Club, upon being approved for membership and the payment of the current initiation deposit. A Seven membership is upgradeable to a Full Golf Membership via the waitlist mentioned above. The special aspect of such a path is that the holder will have access to golf as outlined below in the meantime, such privileges being unavailable to a buyer of a "naked" home who thereafter becomes a temporary Lifestyle member during the waiting period. However, for the family for whom golf is a casual or occasional activity, perhaps with visiting children or grandchildren and not a focal point of their lives, a Seven membership is ideal. It allows for unlimited play on the Club's eighteen-hole, par-54 "Short Course" (a serious "real" golf course, long enough to be "rated" for handicap purposes), access to the Club's four practice ranges, access to the Club's state-of-the art Golf Performance Center, six rounds per year as a guest of a Full Golf Member on the six "big" courses, and no limit to rounds played in Club tournaments as a guest. And, the seller is offering an $8,000 credit for a buyer who does want to go on the waitlist for the Full Golf Membership to cover greens fees while waiting for the waitlist to clear. All this adds up to a pleasant amount of golf for "casual/occasional golfer" family, or for the family who wants full access to golf but is willing to wait for it for a while. One of the clubhouses, the "Sonoran Clubhouse" is where most of the non-golf and non-hiking trail activities are concentrated: swimming (three pools); tennis (nine unlighted courts including three hardcourts, five Har-Tru, and one grass); fitness (equipment, classes, personal trainers, yoga, etc.); sixteen unlighted pickleball courts; bocce; complete spa services; two golf croquet courts; and an extensive outdoor playground for little people. This facility is within a walkable distance to this home. Close to twenty-five miles of nicely groomed hiking trails await in the mountains at the back of Desert Mountain, reaching Butte Peak, at 4,823' the highest point in Scottsdale. An amazing "country club for dogs", the "Bark Park", was built recently near the Cochise-Geronimo Clubhouse. The restaurants include Constantino's; Café Verde; Angelo's; Arizona Grill at Outlaw; Cochise-Geronimo; The Hideout at Renegade; Seven; Apache; and the Range House at CG. Considerable recent and ongoing investment in keeping Club facilities state-of-the-art has been and will be funded out of general funds, not assessments. There is no fee for exiting the membership structure. The Front Gate of the community is typically about a forty-minute drive to Phoenix Sky Harbor airport, and perhaps twenty-five minutes to Scottsdale Airport, where many members come and go by private aircraft. Otherwise, nearly seventy bars and restaurants are within about a fifteen-minute drive of the Front Gate in Scottsdale, Cave Creek and Carefree. Major league and collegiate sports, fabulous medical care (including the Mayo Clinic and hospital), and a wide variety of cultural attractions, are all within an hour. Skiing is about two hours away in Flagstaff. The Grand Canyon, Lake Powell and Las Vegas are all four to five hours away. California beaches are about six hours away. Another positive is low real estate taxes, strikingly lower than many places in the Northeast, Midwest, or West Coast. 2025 taxes on this home were only $3,493.60. 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 only about ten or twelve days a year here, compared to ninety days downtown. 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 how comfortable 95 degrees is at night or in the shade. So, being in Desert Mountain on a year 'round basis is an attractive proposition. "Paradise" does not overstate what Desert Mountain is for the people who get to live here. Thanks for your time. If this home is a physical fit for your needs; you want to be in Desert Mountain in a central location; you want to immediately enjoy a home without having to spend a year or more remodeling it, likely spending more than what this seller is asking for what has been spent updating this home, and getting less for your money; you want to avoid spending time shopping for furniture and furnishings and paying full retail for them (instead of buying for well under retail the barely used items currently in the home); the Seven membership (or no membership) works for you, then this home would be a great option for you. Come see it, confirm all this, and then let us see if we can't create a transaction that works. We'd love to have you in this home and help make sure you have a lot of fun in it for years to come.
Listing Details MLS# 6868863
Location, Tax & Legal
- House Number
- 10651
- Compass
- E
- Street Name
- FERNWOOD
- St Suffix
- Lane
- City/Town Code
- Scottsdale
- State/Province
- AZ
- Zip Code
- 85262
- Zip4
- 3431
- Country
- US
- County Code
- Maricopa
- Assessor Number
- 219-56-718
- Subdivision
- DESERT MOUNTAIN
- Tax Year
- 2024
- Assessor's Map #
- 56
- Legal Description (Abbrev)
- LOT 12 DESERT MOUNTAIN PHASE 2 UNIT 20 MCR 040218
- Assessor's Parcel #
- 718
- Tax Municipality
- Scottsdale
- Taxes
- 3429
Contract Information
- Type
- Exclusive Right To Sell
- Ownership
- Fee Simple
- Co-Ownership (Fractional) Agreement YN
- No
General Property Description
- Dwelling Type
- Single Family Residence
- Dwelling Styles
- Detached
- Exterior Stories
- Yes
- # of Interior Levels
- Yes
- # Bedrooms
- 3
- Full Bathrooms
- 3
- Half Bathrooms
- Yes
- Total Bathrooms
- 4
- Approx SQFT
- 2992
- Price/SqFt
- 919.12
- Horses
- N
- Model
- Juniper Opened Up
- Builder Name
- Price Woods
- Year Built
- 1997
- Approx Lot SqFt
- 16173
- Approx Lot Acres
- 0.371
- Community Pool Y/N
- Yes
- Private Pool Y/N
- Yes
- Fireplace YN
- Yes
- Fireplaces Total
- 3
- Planned Comm Name
- Desert Mountain
- Marketing Name
- Desert Fairways 12
- Elementary School District
- Cave Creek Unified District
- High School District
- Cave Creek Unified District
- Elementary School
- Black Mountain Elementary School
- Jr. High School
- Sonoran Trails Middle School
- High School
- Cactus Shadows High School
Remarks Misc
- Cross Street
- Cave Creek Rd & Desert Mountain Pkwy
- Directions
- Head east of Pima on Cave Creek Road, turn left into Desert Mountain. Guard gate can give directions to the property.
Legal Info
- Township
- 6N
- Range
- 5E
- Section
- 28
- Lot Number
- 12
Association Fees
- Association Fee 2
- 1035
More Information
Architect
- Architect
- Bing Hu
Basement
- Basement Y/N
- N
Items Updated
- Floor Yr Updated
- 2024
- Floor Partial/Full
- Full
- Wiring Yr Updated
- 2024
- Wiring Partial/Full
- Partial
- Plmbg Yr Updated
- 2024
- Plmbg Partial/Full
- Partial
- Ht/Cool Yr Updated
- 2024
- Ht/Cool Partial/Full
- Full
- Roof Yr Updated
- 2023
- Roof Partial/Full
- Full
- Kitchen Yr Updated
- 2024
- Kitchen Partial/Full
- Full
- Bath(s) Yr Updated
- 2024
- Bath(s) Partial/Full
- Full
- Pool Yr Updated
- 2024
- Pool Partial/Full
- Full
Parking Spaces
- Garage Spaces
- 2
- Total Covered Spaces
- 2
- Slab Parking Spaces
- 0
Showing Notification Methods
- Showing Service
- Aligned Showings
Special Listing Cond
- N/A
- Yes
Construction
- Block
- Yes
- Wood Frame
- Yes
Const - Finish
- Painted
- Yes
- Stucco
- Yes
- Stone
- Yes
Roofing
- Tile
- Yes
- Foam
- Yes
- Rolled
- Yes
Association & Fees
- HOA Y/N
- Y
- HOA Disclosure/Addendum Affirmation
- Yes
- HOA Transfer Fee
- 0
- HOA Fee
- 764.4
- HOA Paid Frequency
- Semi-Annually
- HOA Name
- Desert Fairways
- HOA Telephone
- 480-635-5600
- HOA Management Company
- CCMC
- HOA Management Phone
- 480-921-7500
- Special Assessment HOA
- No
- HOA 2 Y/N
- Y
- HOA 2 Transfer Fee
- 0
- HOA Paid Frequency 2
- Semi-Annually
- HOA 2 Name
- Desert Mountain
- HOA 2 Telephone
- 480-635-5600
- HOA Management Company 2
- CCMC
- HOA Management Phone 2
- 480-921-7500
- Special Assessment HOA 2
- No
- HOA 3 Y/N
- N
- PAD Fee Y/N
- N
- Cap Improvement/Impact Fee
- 0
- Cap Improvement/Impact Fee $/%
- $
- Cap Improvement/Impact Fee 2
- 0.45
- Cap Improvement/Impact Fee 2 $/%
- %
- Prepaid Association Fees HOA
- 764.4
- Prepaid Association Fees HOA 2
- 1035
- Disclosure Fees HOA
- 0
- Disclosure Fees HOA 2
- 400
- Other Fees HOA
- 0
- Land Lease Fee Y/N
- N
- Rec Center Fee Y/N
- N
- Rec Center Fee 2 Y/N
- N
- Ttl Mthly Fee Equiv
- 299.9
Lockbox Type
- See Private Remarks
- Yes
- None
- Yes
Architecture
- Contemporary
- Yes
Master Bathroom
- Full Bth Master Bdrm
- Yes
- Separate Shwr & Tub
- Yes
- Double Vanity
- Yes
- Private Toilet Room
- Yes
Master Bedroom
- Split
- Yes
Additional Bedroom
- Other Bedroom Split
- Yes
- Separate Bedroom Exit
- Yes
- Master Bedroom Walk-in Closet
- Yes
- Other Bedroom Walk-in Closet
- Yes
Fireplace Features
- Fireplace Living Rm
- Yes
- Fireplace Master Bdr
- Yes
- Gas Fireplace
- Yes
- Exterior Fireplace
- Yes
- Fire Pit
- Yes
Flooring
- Tile
- Yes
- Wood
- Yes
Window Features
- Dual Pane
- Yes
Private Pool Features
- Heated
- Yes
- Play Pool
- Yes
Community Features
- Biking/Walking Path
- Yes
- Comm Tennis Court(s)
- Yes
- Community Spa
- Yes
- Community Spa Htd
- Yes
- Concierge
- Yes
- Gated
- Yes
- Golf
- Yes
- Guarded Entry
- Yes
- On-Site Guard
- Yes
- Pickleball
- Yes
Dining Area
- Formal
- Yes
- Eat-in Kitchen
- Yes
- Breakfast Room
- Yes
Heating
- Natural Gas
- Yes
View
- Mountain(s)
- Yes
Kitchen Features
- Dishwasher
- Yes
- Disposal
- Yes
- Gas Oven
- Yes
- Gas Range
- Yes
- Built-in Microwave
- Yes
- Non-laminate Counter
- Yes
- Pantry
- Yes
- Refrigerator
- Yes
- Reverse Osmosis
- Yes
- Gas Cooktop
- Yes
Cooling
- Ceiling Fan(s)
- Yes
- Programmable Thmstat
- Yes
- Central Air
- Yes
Interior Features
- Skylight(s)
- Yes
- Vaulted Ceiling(s)
- Yes
- Wet Bar
- Yes
- Fire Sprinkler System
- Yes
- No Interior Steps
- Yes
- Water Softener Owned
- Yes
- Soft Water Loop
- Yes
- Water Purifier
- Yes
Laundry
- Washer Included
- Yes
- Dryer Included
- Yes
- Inside
- Yes
Other Rooms
- Great Room
- Yes
Separate Den/Office
- Sep Den/Office Y/N
- N
Accessibility Feat.
- Zero-Grade Entry
- Yes
Technology
- 3+ Exist Tele Lines
- Yes
- Pre-Wire Srnd Snd
- Yes
- Cable TV Avail
- Yes
- High Speed Internet
- Yes
- Ntwrk Wrng Multi Rms
- Yes
- Security System Owned
- Yes
Fencing
- Block
- Yes
Water Source
- City Water
- Yes
Community Pool Features
- Heated
- Yes
Exterior Features
- Built-in BBQ
- Yes
- Covered Patio(s)
- Yes
- Patio
- Yes
- Private Street(s)
- Yes
- Pvt Yrd(s)/Crtyrd(s)
- Yes
Spa
- Private
- Yes
- Heated
- Yes
Sewer
- Sewer - Public
- Yes
Parking Features
- Attch'd Gar Cabinets
- Yes
- Permit/Decal Req'd
- Yes
- Shared Driveway
- Yes
- Side Vehicle Entry
- Yes
- Garage Door Opener
- Yes
New Financing
- Cash
- Yes
- Conventional
- Yes
Energy/Green Feature
- Multi-Zones
- Yes
Plumbing
- Recirculation Pump
- Yes
- Gas Hot Water Heater
- Yes
Utilities
- APS
- Yes
- SW Gas
- Yes
Existing 1st Loan
- Treat as Free&Clear
- Yes
Property Description
- Golf Course Lot
- Yes
- Corner Lot
- Yes
- North/South Exposure
- Yes
- Adjacent to Wash
- Yes
Landscaping
- Desert Front
- Yes
- Desert Back
- Yes
- Yrd Wtring Sys Front
- Yes
- Yrd Wtring Sys Back
- Yes
Services
- City Services
- Yes
Unit Style
- All on One Level
- Yes
Disclosures
- Seller Discl Avail
- Yes
- Agency Discl Req
- Yes
Possession
- By Agreement
- Yes
- Close of Escrow
- Yes
Association Fee Incl
- Common Area Maint
- Yes
- Street Maint
- Yes
Assoc Rules/Info
- Pets OK (See Rmrks)
- Yes
- No Visible Truck Trailer RV Boat
- Yes
- Rental OK (See Rmks)
- Yes
- Club, Membership Opt
- Yes
- Prof Managed
- Yes
Property Features
Documents
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