Is there one Kierland HOA in Scottsdale, or does each community have its own?

No. Kierland, in North Phoenix, doesn't have one homeowners association. The single-family homes built by UDC pay into a master association, and the condo and townhome communities in Kierland, Kierland Greens, Kierland Heritage and the towers at Optima Kierland, each have their own, separate from that master association and from each other.

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. If you're searching Kierland Greens HOA, Kierland Heritage HOA or Optima Kierland HOA because you're trying to work out what a specific home costs to own, the answer depends on which one it's in. Here's each one, what it covers, and where to get the current figure for an actual address, so you're not relying on a number that applies to a different community nearby.

Kierland Greens, Kierland Heritage and Optima Kierland all carry 85254 addresses, and real estate listings usually show that as Scottsdale. The ZIP code sits on the Phoenix-Scottsdale line, and some of the parcels inside it are in the City of Phoenix even though the mailing address reads Scottsdale. That doesn't change which HOA applies to a unit, but always confirm the parcel with the title company before you write an offer there, since the city decides utilities and permits, not the HOA.

The Kierland Homeowners Association is the master association for the single-family homes UDC built between 1995 and 1998. Its own website lists HOAMCO as the management company, with a phone number at (800) 447-3838. Here's which Arizona law covers an association like this one and what to ask for before you buy.

The current assessment for a specific address is in its resale documents.

Kierland Greens is a gated condominium community. Real estate listings for the community describe the HOA fee as covering front yard and common-area maintenance, water, sewer, trash and the building's insurance policy. Some resale listings also include roof repair and exterior maintenance in that same fee, which is typical for a condominium regime where the association, not the individual owner, is responsible for the building's exterior.

Listings at 15221 N Clubgate Drive in 2026 show monthly fees of $600 for most units and $480 for at least one, so the number isn't the same for every unit. Those are asking-time figures from listings, not the association's own budget, and they change. The real number for a specific unit is in its resale documents.

Kierland Heritage is a gated townhome community built by Cachet Homes between 1997 and 1999, and each unit has an attached two-car garage and its own private patio.

It has its own HOA, separate from Kierland Greens and from the master association. The resale documents for a specific address show the current assessment and who manages it.

Optima Kierland is five separate towers along Kierland Boulevard, not one building, and that's where most of the confusion starts. According to Optima's own project pages, 7120 Optima Kierland was completed in 2016 and 7180 Optima Kierland in 2020, and both are condominiums, meaning the units inside them are individually owned. 7140 Optima Kierland, completed in 2020, and 7160 Optima Kierland, completed in 2016, are apartment buildings. Optima's site describes 7190 Optima Kierland, completed in 2023, as its third and final apartment tower.

That split is what decides whether there's an HOA to ask about at all. An apartment tower has no per-unit HOA, because nobody owns an individual unit there, one owner holds the whole building. The two condominium towers, 7120 and 7180, each have their own, separate condominium association. The Arizona Department of Real Estate's association registry lists Optima Kierland Center 7120 Condominium Association, Inc., formed in 2015 and currently managed by AAM LLC. 7180 is a separate condominium with its own association.

Optima's own pages also give the size of each tower. 7180 has 202 condominium units. 7140, an apartment tower, has 213 residences, and 7160, also apartments, has 150 rental units ranging from studios to three-bedrooms. 7190, the third and final apartment tower, has 216 units, including studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units and penthouses. None of those three apartment buildings sell individual units, so none of them has a per-unit HOA to ask about.

Real estate listings for 7120 and 7180 describe the fee as covering water, sewer, trash, cable or Wi-Fi, a blanket insurance policy and the building's amenities, things like the fitness center, the pools and the lounges. The monthly fee follows the size of the unit. Listings I pulled on October 18, 2026 showed roughly $693 to $1,163 a month at 7120 and roughly $906 to $1,187 at 7180, with the one-bedrooms at the low end and the three-bedrooms at the high end. Treat those as a range from listings, not a quote for any one unit.

If you're looking at a specific unit, I can pull the current resale documents, which show the actual fee rather than an average across very different units. A larger floor plan carries a different number than a one-bedroom in the same tower, so a range across the whole building isn't the number for yours.

Arizona has two HOA laws. A condominium is covered by the Arizona Condominium Act, Title 33, Chapter 9 of the Arizona Revised Statutes. A planned community that isn't a condominium is covered by the Arizona Planned Communities Act, Title 33, Chapter 16. Both cover how board meetings are run, your right to see the association's records, and how assessments and liens work.

Which one applies to a specific association here depends on how it was legally set up, not on what the marketing calls it. A community marketed as townhomes can still be organized as a condominium. I'm not an attorney and this isn't legal advice, so ask for the declaration for the specific address, and talk to an attorney if you need a legal answer rather than a general one.

One mistake is assuming the Kierland HOA is a single answer that applies to any address with Kierland in the listing. It isn't. A house, a unit at Kierland Greens, a unit at Kierland Heritage and a unit at Optima Kierland can sit within a few minutes of each other and pay into four completely different associations, or in the case of an Optima apartment tower, no association at all.

Another is confusing a rental tower with a condominium tower at Optima Kierland. 7140, 7160 and 7190 are apartments, not individually owned units, so there's no HOA to ask about on those addresses, no matter what a listing search turns up nearby.

Another is quoting an HOA fee from a website instead of the actual resale documents for the unit. Fees change, and a listing shows what the fee was when the home was listed, not what it is when you close.

And the last is confusing Kierland Commons with a place to live at all. Kierland Commons is a shopping center on about 38 acres, not a residential community, so it has no HOA of its own. The confusion comes up because the name shows up in searches for homes nearby.

A single-family home built by UDC pays into the master Kierland Homeowners Association, managed by HOAMCO.

A condo at Kierland Greens pays its own, separate HOA, which covers front yard and common-area maintenance, water, sewer, trash and insurance.

A townhome at Kierland Heritage pays its own HOA too, separate from Kierland Greens and from the master association.

A unit at 7120 or 7180 Optima Kierland belongs to its building's own condominium association. A unit at 7140, 7160 or 7190 Optima Kierland has no HOA at all, because those three towers are apartments and nobody owns an individual unit in them.

For any Kierland address, these are the five things worth asking for before you make an offer: the resale or disclosure packet, the association's current budget, how much the association holds in reserves, the last year of board meeting minutes, and the declaration. The budget and reserves tell you whether the fee is likely to hold or jump. The minutes tell you what the board is arguing about, such as a roof, a special assessment or a lawsuit. A fee that looks low next to the building next door can just mean the association is behind on repairs.

Start with which of these categories the address falls into: the single-family UDC homes, Kierland Greens, Kierland Heritage, one of the two Optima Kierland condo towers, or one of the three Optima Kierland apartment towers. That tells you whether there's an HOA at all before you look at a dollar figure.

Then ask for the current resale documents, which show the real management company and the real fee for that address. I walk every buyer through what an HOA charges and what it covers before they fall in love with a home, and those documents get reviewed inside the same window as your inspection once you're under contract. If you're just starting the buying process, call me at (480) 203-6605 or get in touch with the address or the community name, Kierland Greens, Kierland Heritage or the specific Optima Kierland tower, and I'll tell you which association applies and pull the current figure before you write an offer.