10651 E FERNWOOD Lane, Scottsdale, AZ 85262

Welcome to 10651 E Fernwood Ln, a fully remodeled Scottsdale home for sale in Desert Fairways at Desert Mountain. This 2,992 square foot south-facing, fairway-fronting, 3 bedroom and 3.5 bathroom open plan home was remodeled in 2024 with high-end modern finishes, creating bright spaces that complement the contemporary pool, spa, and BBQ patio. It is a barely used, move-in-ready home with immediate access to a Seven Membership at Desert Mountain Club, adding lifestyle value in one of Arizona’s premier guard-gated golf and recreation communities. High-end furnishings of outstanding quality and essentially brand new are available to purchase. This home, priced below owner’s cost in addition to an $8,000 closing credit, is a compelling opportunity to buy a remodeled Scottsdale luxury home! 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.