Surprise Arizona Homes For Sale: The median price of a new home is about $157,000, and the median price of a pre-owned home is about $112,000. Homes for sale in Tempe, Chandler, Scottdale, Mesa, Gilbert, etc.

Surprise was little more than a gas station and few small houses in 1938 when founder, Homer C. Ludden, a Glendale letter carrier, and former state legislator turned real estate developer, subdivided the rural square-mile parcel into low-cost home sites for the area’s agricultural workers, naming it after his Nebraska hometown.

Today, it’s one of Arizona’s - and America’s - fastest growing cities. Flanked by one of Arizona’s largest mountain preserves, and situated in the stunning Saguaro-dotted Sonoran desert just a half-hour from downtown Phoenix, it is blossoming into a meticulously planned city.

The population has mushroomed from 10,737 in 1995 to an estimated 70,000 today and, with a new home completed every hour and 46 minutes, projections are Surprise’s population will reach 75,000 or more by the end of 2004.

There were nearly 5,000 single-family home starts in 2003, with more than 6,000 expected in 2004. Boasting 28 of Arizona’s top 50 home builders, Surprise offers world-class resort retirement living in developments such as Del Webb’s Sun City Grand and Continental Home’s Arizona Traditions, as well as award-winning master-planned family communities. Choose from hundreds of floor plans in the 26 subdivisions now under construction.

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