Verrado, Festival Ranch, Sundance, and Tartesso rent to different people at different prices. Which subdivision you own in decides the return — here is how we read them.
The community that changed how people see Buckeye: DMB’s 8,800-acre master plan in the White Tank foothills, opened in 2004, with a walkable Main Street, two Tom Lehman golf courses and landscaping that has had two decades to grow in. Buyers pay for that in the acquisition price, so the rent has to be priced carefully to justify it.
In the north of the city, in the same part of Buckeye as Pulte’s age-restricted Sun City Festival, with all-ages neighborhoods of its own. Quiet, well kept and newer, with a longer drive to the I-10 that has to be reflected in the price.
An established Buckeye community built around the public Sundance Golf Club. Many homes here are past the first-owner phase, which often means a lower acquisition price than the newest subdivisions. Solid, unglamorous cash-flow territory.
Off Sun Valley Parkway, on more than 10,000 acres bought by Dolphin Partners in 2016, with D.R. Horton building the current phases. Homes here are large for the money and a longer drive from the I-10, and new inventory arriving nearby can soften rents in a given year.
Directly east, with Goodyear Ballpark, Estrella Mountain Ranch and more established retail and employment. Many owners hold in both cities. The Census Bureau’s median gross rent for 2020 to 2024 is nearly the same in the two ($1,956 in Goodyear, $1,963 in Buckeye), so the difference is in the specific home and street.
Litchfield Park, Avondale, and Surprise round out the corridor. Litchfield is the established, tree-lined exception to West Valley newness; Avondale and Surprise each have their own mix of prices and housing. We manage across all of them, so a growing portfolio stays with one company.
