Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale's largest landowner by far is the City itself, with some 30,800 acres, nearly all of it the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, while its resorts and its mall belong to REITs and LLCs whose sworn sale prices Maricopa County publishes free.
9 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 21 sources · 8 tier A · 1 tier B · prepared 2026-10-14
Can you find out who owns it?
Arizona has no state title register; ownership is a county record. The Maricopa County Assessor names the owner of record, mailing address, deed and value of every parcel in Scottsdale and publishes the whole roll free as downloadable files (the 'Secured Master', updated twice a month). Arizona is a full-disclosure state: every deed must carry a sworn affidavit of value stating the price paid, and the Assessor publishes those affidavits too, with buyer, seller, address and price, except where a deed is exempt, such as a quitclaim for no consideration or a transfer to which a government is a party. Deeds are recorded by the County Recorder for $30 per instrument.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchOwner of record and sale price free (Assessor data downloads); recording $30 per instrument, copies $1 per page plus $3 to certify (A.R.S. 11-475)
Bulk ownership dataMaricopa County Assessor Data Downloads: Secured Master (owner, situs, deed, values; updated twice a month) and Sales Affidavits (weekly), free without registration; no licence granted, and A.R.S. 39-121.03 governs commercial use
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottsdale Fashion Square 7014 E Camelback Road, Scottsdale (main parcel 173-37-009A) 1,879,000 sq ft (Macerich FY2025 10-K) |
Retail | Scottsdale Fashion Square LLC Macerich 50% (Scottsdale Fashion Square Partnership) Owner of record of the main parcel is Scottsdale Fashion Square LLC ($260.7M full cash value, deed March 2013), with tax mail to PO Box 4085, Santa Monica; twelve parcels in Scottsdale go to that address under five Fashion Square entity names, $586.2M in all. Macerich's FY2025 10-K lists 'Scottsdale Fashion Square Partnership 50.0%' among its joint ventures, describes a 1,879,000 sq ft regional centre 94.9% leased, a $700.0M fixed-rate loan placed in March 2023 (matures March 2028), and an $84–90M redevelopment of the Nordstrom wing. The 10-K does not name the other 50% partner. |
REIT | —A |
| Scottsdale Quarter 15059–15345 N Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale (four parcels) 631,748 sq ft of land on the main parcel (Assessor roll) |
Mixed use | Quarter on Scottsdale LLC 100% All four Quarter parcels stand in the name of Quarter on Scottsdale LLC, tax mail to a registered-agent address in Wilmington, Delaware; their full cash value totals $343.5M, about half the sworn price. It is the largest sworn price on the Assessor's affidavit file (which keeps each parcel's last recorded sale) for any parcel inside Scottsdale; next is the May 2023 sale of the Grayhawk golf courses, $495.1M across nine parcels. No filing opened here names the investors behind the LLC (see unverified). |
Private company | $645,100,000 2025-06 Sales affidavit: from SDQ Fee LLC to Quarter on Scottsdale LLC, deed 2025-0368590, special warranty deed, multi-parcel. A |
| Fairmont Scottsdale Princess 7575 E Princess Drive, Scottsdale (roll situs 7505 E Princess Blvd and neighbouring parcels) 34.4 acres on the hotel parcel (roll) |
Hotel | FMT Scottsdale Owner LLC Six parcels in the name of FMT Scottsdale Owner LLC, tax mail to 19200 Von Karman Ave, Irvine, California, $251.5M of full cash value; the main 'IMPS' (improvements) parcel alone is $153.4M, the City's former grant of it recorded in December 2011. Next door, TPC Scottsdale's course land stands in the names of the City and the Bureau of Reclamation. The BANK 2023-BNK45 prospectus lists the Fairmont among the competitive set of a nearby resort but describes no loan on it. No filing opened here names the parent of the LLC. |
Private company | —A |
| Grand Hyatt Scottsdale Resort (formerly Hyatt Regency Scottsdale at Gainey Ranch) 7500 E Doubletree Ranch Road, Scottsdale 27 acres (roll) |
Hotel | XHR Scottsdale Ranch LLC 100% Owner of record XHR Scottsdale Ranch LLC, tax mail Orlando ($146.9M full cash value); Xenia Hotels & Resorts' FY2025 Exhibit 21 lists XHR Scottsdale Ranch LLC as a subsidiary. Xenia's 10-K lists the Grand Hyatt Scottsdale Resort at 496 rooms, acquired 2017, and its Schedule III carries it at $374.1M gross after a transformation renovation. The 2017 press release gave 493 rooms. |
REIT | —A |
| Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North 10600 E Crescent Moon Drive, Scottsdale 210 rooms; 23-acre main parcel (roll) |
Hotel | BHR Scottsdale LP 100% (fee simple) Braemar Hotels & Resorts' FY2025 10-K: 'On December 1, 2022, we acquired a fee simple interest in the 210-room Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North'; 2025 revenue $79.3M, 11.3% of Braemar's hotel revenue; a $180.0M loan placed in August 2025. The roll names BHR Scottsdale LP on six parcels ($92.3M) but its deed field still shows the December 2014 sale, which the affidavit file records at $140,000,000 from Walton PR Hotel III LLC to SHR FSST LLC. |
REIT | $267,800,000 2022-12-01 Braemar press release: total consideration $267.8M, of which $250M for the resort and $17.8M for 5.7 acres of developable land; bought from SHR FSST, LLC and STRS FSST. A |
| Scottsdale Airport 15000 N Airport Drive, Scottsdale (roll situs 15111 N Airport Dr, parcel 215-56-413E) 277 acres on the main parcel (roll) |
Civic | City of Scottsdale The single most valuable parcel in Scottsdale is the City's airport parcel: 277 acres at $319.9M full cash value (deed 2021). The airport's page sits on the City's own website, with the airport office at 15000 N Airport Drive. |
Government | —A |
| TPC Scottsdale (Stadium and Champions courses) 17020 N Hayden Road, Scottsdale 2 acres on the clubhouse parcel; course land on adjoining City and Bureau of Reclamation parcels |
Land | City of Scottsdale TPC's own page gives 17020 North Hayden Road; the roll names the City of Scottsdale as owner of that parcel ($28.8M) and of the neighbouring parcels at 8243 E Bell Rd, while two parcels at the same 8243 E Bell Rd situs stand in the name of the USA Bureau of Reclamation ($32.4M and $130.8M). The course operator (PGA TOUR Golf Course Properties, Inc., per the site's copyright line) does not appear as owner on any parcel examined. The lease between the City and the operator was not opened. |
Government | —B |
| Mayo Clinic Arizona (Scottsdale campus) 13400 E Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale |
Institutional | Mayo Clinic Arizona 100% The campus parcel is in the name of Mayo Clinic Arizona ($105.8M full cash value, warranty deed June 2001 between Mayo Clinic Arizona entities, no price). Sixteen parcels inside Scottsdale stand in the names of Mayo Clinic Arizona (15) and Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research (1): 189 acres, $275.6M. |
Institution | —A |
| McDowell Sonoran Preserve North and northeast Scottsdale more than 30,500 acres (City of Scottsdale) |
Land | City of Scottsdale The City: 'one of the largest permanently protected urban desert preserves in the world, encompassing more than 30,500 acres', protected since 1994. On the roll the City of Scottsdale holds 1,074 parcels and 30,847 acres inside the City, mostly whole 640-acre sections in the north; that is 29% of all parcelled land in Scottsdale and makes the City by far the largest landowner. |
Government | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
The most valuable ground in Scottsdale is public and retail: the City's airport parcel tops the roll, and Fashion Square and Scottsdale Quarter are the most valuable private parcels. All figures are summed by this research from the Assessor's Secured Master (current tax year, files dated 2 Oct 2026) for parcels whose tax-area code carries Scottsdale's city digits (14).
Highest-valued parcel in the City of Scottsdale$319.9M
City of Scottsdale, Scottsdale Airport, 15111 N Airport Dr (parcel 215-56-413E), 277 acres, full cash value. The most valuable private parcels: Scottsdale Fashion Square LLC's main parcel, $260.7M, and Quarter on Scottsdale LLC's, $260.0M. Secured Master, Oct 2026.
Real property in the City of Scottsdale$146.9 billion
131,310 parcels, full cash value; limited property value (the capped taxable base) $87.3B. Secured Master, Oct 2026.
Largest sworn sale price inside the City$645,100,000
Scottsdale Quarter, June 2025, SDQ Fee LLC to Quarter on Scottsdale LLC (Sales Affidavits, file dated 5 Oct 2026). Next: the Grayhawk golf courses, $495.1M (May 2023), and an apartment property at 4848 N Goldwater Blvd, $260.0M (March 2022).
Prime retail land benchmark$76 per sq ft
The Assessor's land value on Fashion Square's main parcel: $72,133,113 on 953,249 sq ft. Scottsdale Quarter's main parcel: $38,023,800 on 631,748 sq ft, $60 per sq ft. Secured Master, Oct 2026.
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Inside Scottsdale the City is by far the largest owner: it holds about 30,800 acres, almost all of it the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in the north, which is 29% of the parcelled land in the City. After it come the federal Bureau of Reclamation (the Central Arizona Project canal, and the land under TPC Scottsdale and its neighbours), the State Land Department's remaining trust land, and the private associations and clubs that own the common land and golf courses of north Scottsdale's master-planned communities. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community lies next door, not inside: no parcel inside the City stands in its name, and reservation trust land is not on the county roll. Acreages are the roll's land-area field summed by this research from the Secured Master (files dated 2 Oct 2026), for parcels whose tax-area code carries Scottsdale's city digits.
| Name | Type | Holdings inside Scottsdale |
|---|---|---|
| City of Scottsdale All spellings on the roll ('Scottsdale City of', 'City of Scottsdale', and variants). The City's largest holdings are whole 640-acre sections in the north, the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, which the City puts at 'more than 30,500 acres'. Also the airport ($319.9M, the most valuable parcel in the City) and the clubhouse parcel of TPC Scottsdale. |
Government | 1,074 parcels, 30,847 acres, $4.14BA |
| U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Mostly in the name 'USA Bureau of Reclamation'; one parcel is labelled for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal. Includes the parcels at 8243 E Bell Rd beside TPC Scottsdale ($130.8M and $32.4M) and 16601 N Pima Rd ($92.9M). County-wide the Bureau holds 695 parcels, about 8,770 acres. |
Government | 103 parcels, 1,178 acres, $1.02BA |
| Arizona State Land Department (State Land Trust) Under two spellings on the roll. The Department's own site (land.az.gov) refused automated reading in the Phoenix research, so its figures are not cited. |
Government | 79 parcels, 1,250 acres, $821MA |
| Desert Mountain Club, Inc. and Desert Mountain Master Association The largest private acreage in the City: the master association holds 246 parcels, 3,356 acres (common land, carried at nominal value), and the club 52 parcels, 1,433 acres ($90.1M). Other north-Scottsdale associations (DC Ranch, McDowell Mountain Ranch, Terravita) hold several hundred acres each. |
Private company | 298 parcels, 4,789 acresA |
| Toll Brothers AZ Construction Company The largest builder holding in the City: lots and unsold homes, $162.4M of full cash value. |
Public company | 418 parcels, 557 acresA |
| Scottsdale Unified School District No. 48 School sites. North Scottsdale is partly in Cave Creek Unified (two parcels, 180 acres, $207.2M, including a $184.8M high-school parcel) and Paradise Valley Unified (three parcels, 28 acres). |
Government | 48 parcels, 505 acres, $729MA |
| GGC Arcis LLC (Grayhawk golf courses) Bought in May 2023 from Grayhawk Golf LLC for $495,100,000 across nine parcels (affidavit, deed 2023-0316592), the second-largest sworn price for any parcel inside Scottsdale on the affidavit file. The roll's full cash value for the ten parcels is $23.9M. Whether the price covers assets beyond these parcels was not established. |
Private company | 10 parcels, 370 acresA |
| Scottsdale Healthcare and Scottsdale Memorial entities Hospital campuses on Shea Boulevard, Osborn Road and Thompson Peak Parkway under seven entity names (largest: Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, $436.0M; Scottsdale Memorial Health Systems Inc, $232.2M). A separate 48-acre parcel stands in the name HonorHealth ($79.6M). The roll does not state the relationship between these entities. |
Institution | 22 parcels, 119 acres, $814MA |
| Mayo Clinic Arizona Includes one parcel in the name of Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research ($55.0M). The Shea Boulevard campus parcel is $105.8M. |
Institution | 16 parcels, 189 acres, $276MA |
| Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District Substations and canal land under eight spellings, plus three parcels of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association. SRP's own site refused automated reading. |
Government | 33 parcels, 52 acres, $76MA |
| Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community The Community's own page: 'Spanning 54,568 acres in Maricopa County, the Community is surrounded by the cities of Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, and Fountain Hills, with 19,000 acres preserved as natural land.' The same page lists Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, the spring-training ballpark, among places reached within the Community; it is not in the City of Scottsdale. No parcel inside Scottsdale's tax area stands in the Community's name; county-wide the roll carries 23 parcels in its name. |
Government | 54,568 acres (adjacent, none inside the City)A |
| Maricopa County and its Flood Control District Maricopa County 10 parcels (99 acres, $32.5M); Flood Control District of Maricopa County 28 parcels (83 acres, $69.6M). |
Government | 38 parcels, 182 acresA |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Scottsdale is largely built out, and new single-family building is small and expensive: the Census Bureau counts 369 single-family permits in the City in 2025 against 1,600 units in buildings of five or more, 2,061 units in all. The roll shows 813 single-family homes inside the City with a construction year of 2024 or later. Production builders are few; much of the north is custom-home lots sold to individual owners. No Scottsdale builder league table is published, so the figures below are parcels held in each builder's own name inside the City on the Maricopa roll (lots and unsold homes, not closings).
| Name | Type | Parcels on the Maricopa roll inside Scottsdale, Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Toll Brothers Held as Toll Brothers AZ Construction Company: 557 acres, $162.4M of full cash value. County-wide Toll holds about 1,650 parcels. |
Public company | 418 parcelsA |
| K. Hovnanian (K Hovnanian at Aria at Silverstone LLC) One community entity, Aria at Silverstone; $17.8M of full cash value on the 100 parcels counted as lots or new homes. |
Public company | 103 parcelsA |
| Shea Homes Shea Homes Limited Partnership (33), Shea Homes Inc (10) and Shea Homes Arizona LP (1). |
Private company | 44 parcelsA |
| Mortensen Signature Homes of Arizona Under two entity spellings: Mortensen Signature Homes of Arizona LLC (27) and Mortensen Signature Homes of AZ LLC (5). |
Private company | 32 parcelsA |
| Weekley Homes Weekley Homes LLC (18) and Weekley Homes Arizona LLC (1), tax mail Denver. |
Private company | 19 parcelsA |
| Richmond American Homes of Arizona Inside the City only; it holds about 2,230 parcels county-wide. Its parent is not stated in any record opened here. |
Developer | 9 parcelsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Scottsdale's largest commercial holdings are its regional mall, its resorts and its apartment communities, not office towers. The public owners state their holdings in their 10-Ks; the private ones hold through single-purpose LLCs, which the county roll names but does not see through. Figures are parcels and full cash value inside the City on the Assessor's Secured Master (Oct 2026) unless stated.
| Name | Type | Scottsdale holding |
|---|---|---|
| Macerich (Scottsdale Fashion Square partnership) Five Fashion Square entity names with tax mail to Macerich's PO Box 4085, Santa Monica. Macerich's FY2025 10-K: a 50% interest in the 1,879,000 sq ft centre, plus a 121,000 sq ft office building and a 245,000 sq ft hotel (Caesars Republic) at the centre, both also 50%. |
REIT | 12 parcels, $586.2MA |
| Nationwide Realty Investors (Columbus, Ohio) Three parcels stand in the name Nationwide Realty Investors Ltd; nineteen more, under names such as 18700 Hayden Road LLC ($221.6M), NWGH LLC, NRI Cavasson LLC and Cavasson Hotel LLC, share its tax-mailing address, 375 N Front St, Columbus Their situs addresses are on Hayden Road and Claret Drive. The roll gives only the shared address; no filing opened here states the ownership of each LLC. |
Private company | 22 parcels, 96 acres, $560.3MA |
| Camden Property Trust Camden USA Inc, Camden Montierra LLC and Camden San Marcos LLC inside Scottsdale (unit counts from the roll). Camden's FY2025 10-K reports 13 communities and 4,094 homes in 'Phoenix/Scottsdale', including Camden Old Town Scottsdale. |
REIT | 7 parcels, 2,173 apartments, $519.1MA |
| Whitestone REIT Shopping centres held as Whitestone Pinnacle of Scottsdale LLC, Whitestone Market Street at DC Ranch LLC, Whitestone Scottsdale Commons LLC and others. FY2025 10-K: 25 of its 56 properties are in the Scottsdale and Phoenix metro areas; it bought Scottsdale Commons (69,482 sq ft) on 5 April 2024 for $22.2M. |
REIT | 27 parcels, $246.5MA |
| Xenia Hotels & Resorts and Braemar Hotels & Resorts The two listed hotel REITs with Scottsdale resorts: Xenia's Grand Hyatt Scottsdale (496 rooms, $146.9M full cash value) and Braemar's Four Seasons at Troon North (210 rooms, bought for $267.8M in 2022). See the buildings above. |
REIT | 2 resorts, 706 roomsA |
| Columbia Sussex (CP Boulders, LLC) The Boulders Resort: 160 rooms and two 18-hole golf courses (prospectus); parcels and acreage from the roll. The BANK 2023-BNK45 prospectus names the borrower CP Boulders, LLC and the guarantor CSC Holdings, LLC, 'an affiliate of Columbia Sussex Corporation', on a $100M whole loan of July 2022. The affidavit file records CP Boulders' April 2015 purchase from Wind P1 Mortgage Borrower LLC at $74,180,000 over 74 parcels. |
Private company | 65 parcels, 310 acres, $90.5MA |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Licence and commercial use. The Assessor grants no licence; its Data Sharing page quotes A.R.S. 39-121.03, under which a record obtained for a noncommercial purpose and used commercially makes the user liable for three times the price that would have been charged. No commercial-purpose request was filed. This record quotes single facts and reproduces no rows; republish stays false.
- City boundary. 'Inside the City' means parcels whose Assessor tax-area code carries 14 in the city digits; this was inferred from the roll (124,579 of the 131,310 parcels with that code carry a Scottsdale situs; unincorporated parcels carry 00), not from a published code table.
- Scottsdale Quarter's buyers. The roll and the affidavit name only Quarter on Scottsdale LLC (registered-agent address in Delaware). Search results attribute the June 2025 purchase to a private investment firm with Vestar as operating partner, but the page that carried it (an orionprop.com repost of a ranking) returned 404, so no investor is named here.
- Scottsdale Fashion Square's other 50%. Macerich's 10-K lists 'Scottsdale Fashion Square Partnership 50.0%' but does not name the partner.
- The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess's ultimate owner. FMT Scottsdale Owner LLC (tax mail Irvine, California) is the owner of record; an EDGAR full-text search for the LLC name (filings since 2023) returned nothing, and no filing opened here names its parent. The City conveyed the improvements parcel to it in December 2011; the terms of any City land arrangement were not opened.
- Kierland Commons, the Westin Kierland and The Phoenician carry Scottsdale mailing addresses but stand in the City of Phoenix's tax area (city digits 13), so they are outside this record: Kierland Greenway LLC (Kierland Commons, tax mail Macerich's PO Box; Macerich's 10-K lists 'Kierland Commons Investment LLC 50.0%'), Host Kierland LP ($280.5M) and Host Camelback I LLC ($207.3M).
- Salt River Fields at Talking Stick is on Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land, not in the City and not on the county's taxable roll; its ownership arrangement was not researched.
- Nationwide Realty Investors' holding is grouped by a shared tax-mailing address (375 N Front St, Columbus); only three parcels carry Nationwide's own name.
- The airport, TPC Scottsdale and Preserve parcels are identified by situs address, acreage and the City's and TPC's own pages; the City's leases to TPC's operator and to airport tenants were not opened.
- Hospital entities. The roll lists Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale Memorial and HonorHealth names separately; their corporate relationship is not stated in any record opened here.
- Builder figures are parcels in each builder's own name inside the City (land and inventory, not closings); custom homes built on lots sold to individuals are not attributable to a builder from the roll.
- No Arizona State Land Department figures from its own site: land.az.gov refused automated reading (Cloudflare) in the Phoenix research and was not retried.
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Sources
- Secured Master (owner of record, situs, deed, values, tax area for every real-property parcel; files dated 2 Oct 2026) — Maricopa County Assessor's Office · openA
- Data Downloads: free datasets ('now available for free download on our website') — Maricopa County Assessor's Office · openA
- Sales Affidavits (last recorded sale per parcel: date, price, deed, situs, grantor, grantee; file dated 5 Oct 2026) — Maricopa County Assessor's Office · openA
- Data Sharing: policy and A.R.S. 39-121.03 commercial-purpose caution — Maricopa County Assessor's Office · openA
- A.R.S. 11-1133: Affidavit of legal value — Arizona State Legislature · openA
- A.R.S. 11-1134: Exemptions (from the affidavit) — Arizona State Legislature · openA
- A.R.S. 11-475: County recorder fees — Arizona State Legislature · openA
- The Macerich Company: Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Xenia Hotels & Resorts: Form 10-K for 2025 (property list, Schedule III) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Braemar Hotels & Resorts: Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- McDowell Sonoran Preserve — City of Scottsdale · openA
- Xenia Hotels & Resorts: Form 10-K for 2025, Exhibit 21.1 (subsidiaries) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Xenia Hotels & Resorts acquires Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Gainey Ranch and Royal Palms Resort & Spa for $305 million (8-K Exhibit 99.1) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Braemar completes acquisition of Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North (8-K Exhibit 99.1) — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Scottsdale Airport (City department page) — City of Scottsdale · openA
- TPC Scottsdale (address and operator) — PGA TOUR Golf Course Properties, Inc. · openA
- BANK 2023-BNK45: prospectus (424B2), Loan No. 12 The Boulders Resort — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- About the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community — Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community · openA
- Camden Property Trust: Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Whitestone REIT: Form 10-K for 2025 — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · openA
- Building Permits Survey: West Region places annual 2025 (we2025a.txt), Scottsdale city — U.S. Census Bureau · openA