Is DC Ranch in Scottsdale still building new homes?

Yes, in one part of it. DC Ranch covers four villages, Country Club, Desert Camp, Desert Parks and Silverleaf, which went up starting in the mid-1990s, with the first homes finished in 1997. Three of those villages are already finished, and what's listed there today is resale. Silverleaf is the one still active, with vacant lots and new homes going up right now.

I'm Jen Keene, a REALTOR® with eXp Luxury in Scottsdale, AZ, and I'm the agent people call at every stage of their life. New construction means a brand-new home, being built now, not a home from the 2000s that just looks newer than the house next to it. In DC Ranch, that's almost always Silverleaf, and a search for new homes in Scottsdale at DC Ranch should take you there first.

Country Club, Desert Camp and Desert Parks went up starting in the mid-1990s, and what's for sale in those three villages today is a resale, whatever condition it's in. Silverleaf is different. It climbs into the foothills at the north end of DC Ranch, and parts of it are still under construction, from attached homes to large custom estates on bigger lots.

If you're looking for new construction anywhere in DC Ranch, narrow your search to Silverleaf first. The other three villages finished building years ago, and a renovated or rebuilt home in one of them is still a resale, not a new build. Here's more on each of the four villages.

Camelot Homes also built The Legacy at DC Ranch, a small gated neighborhood of patio homes from 2,700 to 3,400 square feet. Those are sold out. If that size appeals to you, call me and I'll show you what's for sale in DC Ranch now.

Much of Silverleaf isn't sold as a finished house with a sales trailer and a short list of floor plans. It's sold as a vacant lot, and the lot comes first. From there, the buyer chooses an architect and a builder from the community's approved list, finishes the plans, and only then submits the project for review by the DC Ranch Covenant Commission. Nobody breaks ground before that review is done.

That review adds time to the schedule that a production builder's model home doesn't have, so budget for it when you're asking how soon you could move in. The plans, the approval and the build happen in that order, not all at once, and the whole sequence takes longer than buying something already finished.

A handful of custom builders have an established presence there. Salcito Custom Homes has built in both DC Ranch and Silverleaf, Cullum Homes builds in Silverleaf too, and Sommer Custom Homes has focused on Silverleaf and DC Ranch for more than two decades.

Those three aren't the only names on the community's approved builder list, and the list changes as builders come on and off it. The approval requirement is also why you can't simply bring in any builder you like for a Silverleaf lot. The Covenant Commission's design review assumes you're working with someone the community has already vetted, so ask whoever you're considering whether they're currently on that list before you sign anything with them.

Not everything in Silverleaf means hiring a builder and waiting out a design review. ICON at Silverleaf is a guard-gated condominium project inside Silverleaf, at 18720 N 101st Street, with resort-style amenities and semi-private elevators, and it's in its final phase of construction. The units range from roughly 2,750 to over 6,000 square feet, with two to five bedrooms, so it isn't one fixed floor plan either.

DC Ranch's own site said 24 of the 72 units were still available as of January 2026, and that five more had sold since then, so fewer remain now. It also said one of this year's sales went for $4.25 million. Treat any of that as a snapshot, not a guarantee, and ask me to check what's left before you drive out.

The first is assuming any home that looks newer inside DC Ranch is new construction. Country Club, Desert Camp and Desert Parks finished building years ago, so a renovated or rebuilt home in one of them is still a resale.

The second is confusing DC Ranch with a community next door to it. The Haven, a gated community of single-family homesites at Bell Road and 94th Street, sits next to DC Ranch but isn't part of it. If a listing or a search result uses both names together, check the address before you assume it's the same place.

The third is walking into a builder's sales office or model home without an agent registered first. The person at the desk works for the builder, and in many new communities you lose the chance to have your own agent represent you if you don't register before that first visit.

The fourth is treating DC Ranch as one search instead of checking the village on a specific listing. DC Ranch covers four villages and about two dozen individual neighborhoods, so a listing tagged DC Ranch without a village named tells you almost nothing about whether it's new construction, an older resale, or something in between.

A buyer who wants a custom home built from the ground up in Silverleaf is signing up for a longer sequence. Find a lot, choose an architect and a builder from the community's approved list, finish the plans, and submit it to the DC Ranch Covenant Commission before anyone breaks ground. Those two steps, the plans and the approval, add real time before construction itself even starts.

A buyer who wants to close and move in without that wait is better matched to something already under construction or finished, like the remaining units at ICON at Silverleaf. That moves at the pace of any other home purchase: an accepted offer, financing and a closing date, not a design review.

Start by deciding what you want. If you want something finished and move-in ready, a project like ICON at Silverleaf is the closer fit. If you want a custom home built to your own plans, you're looking at a vacant lot and an approved builder instead, and that's a longer process with the Covenant Commission review built into it.

Either way, call me before you visit a builder's sales office or a model home, so you're registered and represented from the first visit. I'll check the MLS and the builders' own listings together, since a builder's own site or a project's own site is usually more current than a third-party listing aggregator.

Tell me your price range and whether you want to build or buy something finished, and I'll narrow it from there. There's no reason to drive Silverleaf lot by lot when I can confirm what's available before you go.

Call me at (480) 203-6605 or get in touch, and tell me whether you want to build or buy something finished. I'll tell you what's available in Silverleaf right now.

Looking at new construction elsewhere in Scottsdale? Here's where it's going up. Been offered an incentive by a builder? Here's what those mean. Comparing a Silverleaf build with an existing home in DC Ranch? This is how I run that search, and this is what happens before I show a buyer a single house.