Tucson Luxury Homes
Tucson is a great destination for people seeking the luxury lifestyle. Luxury homes are abundant, and the Tucson area offers all the amenities to complete the package: excellent golf, casinos, shopping, theater and four-star restaurants. The nearby Phoenix area offers the Arizona Diamondbacks, Arizona Cardinals and Phoenix Suns.
Located 108 miles (174 km) southeast of Phoenix and 60 mi (97 km) north of the U.S.-Mexico border, Tucson is the second-largest city in Arizona. The population of the Tucson metropolitan area totaled about one million in 2011, with the city accounting for about one half. Tucson boasts 340 days of sunshine per year and its desert climate provides low humidity, dry heat in the summer and warm, comfortable winters.
Tucson’s “luxury†suburb, Oro Valley, to the north is only six miles from downtown. The vast majority of luxury homes in Tucson are found in an area extending southeastward from Oro Valley down along the Catalina Foothills to Saguaro National Park and the base of the Ricon Mountains.
Just minutes from downtown Tucson providing magnificent views of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Oro Valley’s gated subdivisions include: Canada Hills Estates, Coyote Ridge, High Mesa, Honey Bee Canyon Estates, Honey Bee Ridge Estates, La Reserve, Palisades and Stone Canyon. Recent listings for the area showed a luxury 4 bed, 4 bath, 4500 sqft. home with a pool, spa, SS appliances, exercise room, den, quest suite and more on an one acre lot for $1.1 M. Overall, prices ranged from $700K to $1.8 M ranging in size from 4000 to 7000 sqft.
North Tucson lies at the base of the Carolina Mountains and includes the suburban community of Catalina Foothills, just north of the city limits. The Sabino and Bear Canyon resort areas are found in Northeast Tucson and provide nature trails and numerous recreational opportunities. Tucson luxury homes in subdivisions within the city limits include Agua Caliente, Hidden Valley, Indian Hill, Redington Ranch, Sabino Mountain, Sabino Springs and Sneller Hills. A similar luxury 4500 sqft., 4 bed, 4 bath home is listed at $1.2M. However, the “same†home in the gated Tucson Country Club Homes division is listed at $2.7M.
The Catalina Foothills gently slope up from the city of Tucson to the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Gated subdivisions include: Bellas Catalinas Est, Canyon View, The Canyons, Catalina Foothills Estates Cobblestone Homes, Finisterra Homes, Hacienda Del Sol, La Paloma Homes, Pima Canyon Estates, Sin Vacas, Skyline, Summit and Ventana. Comparison-shopping a 4 bed, 4 bath luxury home as described above shows a listing for $1.8 M on 3 acres. Overall, listings in the area can range from $800K to over $5M.
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