Sun City Festival

Buckeye, AZ

Sun City Festival

Buckeye, AZ

FAST FACTS
Facilities:
Age/Style of Homes:
Median Sale Price: $459,500
Gated: NO
Age Restricted: YES
Years Constructed: 2006-NEW
# Homes: 7.200

ABOUT

Sun City Festival

This is the third and newest Sun City by Del Webb in the Northwest Valley along Bell Road’s “retirement row.” Like the previous Sun Cities, this will be a huge development with 7,200 homes, 3 recreation centers, and 27 holes of golf. Although a bit isolated now, wherever Del Webb goes, growth follows.

Overview

Sun City Festival, opened for sales in 2005 and will be another huge Del Webb 55+ golf retirement community offering an incredible range of amenities, with a strong emphasis on health, wellness, and personal enrichment. Here you’ll find resort-style living and everything that you have come to expect from a Sun City.

Sun City Festival is located about 10 miles west of Surprise and about 25 miles northwest of Phoenix, tucked right up against the beautiful White Tank Mountains.

Sun City Festival by Del Webb is part of the larger Festival Ranch master plan community, where Pulte Homes and Centex also build all-ages neighborhoods. However, Sun City Festival’s amenities are for the private use of Sun City residents only. The community is proposed to have approximately 7,200 homesites on 3,100 acres of the 10,000-acre Festival Ranch development.


Sun City Festival Real Estate

The community opened for sales in 2005 and they are still building, so there are resale homes and new homes available. All homes are single-level with a huge variety of sizes and features to choose from.

If you don’t want to wait for new construction, you can purchase a resale home that is just a few years old. Del Webb has offered several phases, with approximately 15-20 homes per phase, so whether you decide to buy a new home or a resale home, it’s easy to find one that will fit your style and budget.

The Town of Buckeye assesses a $3,500 – $4,000 infrastructure fee called a “CFD tax” (CFD stands for “Community Facilities District”) on each lot at Festival Ranch, including Sun City. Most new home buyers choose to amortize the CFD over 20 years through their tax bill. When you purchase a home and the CFD has not been paid off, it can be a negotiable item, and you can ask the seller to pay it and remove the lien. Most sellers want the buyer to assume the balance owed on the assessment.

SWIPE OR CLICK PHOTO FOR GALLERY


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About the Festival Ranch Area

Taking the 12 mile drive out Bell Road across nothing but scenic and rugged desert feels like you’re leaving the world behind and arriving at your new life. Once you arrive it’s so beautiful and well developed, you tend to forget how you got there. People who don’t mind the drive will enjoy virtually zero traffic, clean air, serene surroundings, beautiful mountain views, lower home prices than comparable communities in already developed areas.

There is a small “mini-market” at the community entrance for convenience items. Regular grocery stores and franchise restaurants are about 15 minutes away in Surprise, so it’ll take some extra planning for the weekly grocery shopping, and a little extra travel time to see a movie or go out to dinner.

In return for the lack of conveniences, the prices are substantially lower than comparable homes at PebbleCreek in Goodyear, or Trilogy at Vistancia in Peoria, which both have lots of nearby conveniences. But, it’s just a matter of time before the community has enough population to support conveniences, and when the stores start to arrive, prices will shoot up to reflect the increased demand.


LOCATION

Sun City Festival, Saguaro Center

26285 W Morrow Dr

Buckeye, AZ 85396

928-252-2100