Oro Valley Country Club Homes for Sale — Oro Valley, AZ

Oro Valley Country Club is the residential area wrapped around the golf course that gave the Town of Oro Valley its name, on the northwest side of metropolitan Tucson in ZIP 85737, with a handful of addresses at its south edge in 85704. It is not one subdivision but several, and that is the first thing to know here: large custom homesites on and beside the fairways, and the townhouse, patio-home and villa communities next to them — Villa Balboa, The Colony at Oro Valley, Sunstone Estates, Placita del Oro, Puerto Perdiz and Desert Greens among them — each with its own association and its own assessment, so dues are confirmed by parcel rather than read off the neighborhood, and club membership is a separate decision from buying a house. Across 80 of the last 156 closings, read one by one, roughly three in four were detached single-family homes and the rest townhouses and condominiums; living areas ran from about 690 to 4,400 square feet with a median near 1,810, one to five bedrooms, and two-car garages on most of them, with golf-cart bays a recurring extra. Homesites run from a hundredth of an acre for the attached homes to more than an acre for the estate lots, and one recent closing sat on over four acres. Build years in those records run from the 1950s into the 2010s, with the bulk of the stock from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and the detailing runs mid-century modern and Southwestern — walled entry courtyards, viga-beam ceilings, beehive and kiva fireplaces, Saltillo tile, and adobe and Territorial elevations — with contemporary rebuilds on some of the larger lots. The Cañada del Oro Wash runs beside the neighborhood and Pusch Ridge and the Santa Catalina Mountains stand to the east, so mountain and fairway views come with a large share of the homesites. The history is why a whole town is named after a golf course: three Chicago businessmen — Francis Rooney, Joseph Timan and Hank Leiber — bought a 375-acre parcel of the Cañada del Oro Ranch in 1958 for $187,500, meaning to build a resort called Oro Valley Acres. The resort was never built, and the land that went instead to Louis Landon's group became a championship course laid out by the golf architect Robert Bruce Harris on the banks of the wash. The first round was played that December, Oro Valley Country Club Inc. was formed in June 1959, and the association for Oro Valley Country Club Estates — the one-acre-lot subdivision platted around the fairways — dates to the same year. When the town incorporated on April 15, 1974 across 2.4 square miles and about 1,200 residents, these estates were part of it: the petition drive behind that incorporation, a court fight that reached the Arizona Supreme Court, was carried by residents of Oro Valley Country Club Estates, Shadow Mountain Estates East and West, Campo Bello Estates and the Linda Vista Citrus Tracts, and its early meetings were held in homes here. The club itself, at 300 West Greenock Drive, is private and open to members and their guests: Harris's 18-hole course was redesigned by Keith Foster in 1987, and the club also carries practice facilities, a fitness center, pickleball and tennis courts, a pool and dining. Oracle Road, the main north–south route between here and Tucson, runs east of the neighborhood and carries the everyday retail. Homes are in the Amphitheater Unified School District, with Copper Creek Elementary, Mesa Verde Elementary, Cross Middle and Canyon del Oro High returned as the assigned schools; confirm attendance by address. Homes have historically traded from about $250,000 well up into the seven figures: an eighth of the last 156 closings cleared $1,000,000, the highest of them at $1,715,000. The average closed price is near $581,000 and the median closer to $425,000 — the gap between the two is the housing mix rather than one of the numbers being wrong.

Suburban neighborhood · Northwest metro Tucson · the Town of Oro Valley · Amphitheater USD