Valley home sells for record $17.5M

The record for the priciest home sale in Arizona has been broken, again.

A Canadian buyer has plonked down $17.5 million for a 20,000square-foot mansion in north Scottsdale’s exclusive Silverleaf neighborhood.

Buyer Nummus Properties, a Sas-

katchewan corporation, paid cash for the estate, according to public real-estate records.

The house is on 4 acres near the sixth hole of the DC Ranch community’s Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course.

The stone mansion has five indoor and outdoor kitchens, two elevators, a virtual-reality golf simulator, basketball and volleyball courts, a rock-climbing wall, fitness center with steam room, guest house and eight garages.

Brandt Tractor Ltd. has the same mailing address as the buyer Nummus, according to property records. The seller was Midwest Retreat ll, led by Jordan Dejong of California.

Neither of the real-estate agents involved with the sale returned phone calls.

In December, Steve Sanghi, founder of Chandler-based Microchip Technology paid a then-record $15.65 million for a mansion on Paradise Valley’s Mummy Mountain. It’s now the second-priciest house sale ever to close in Arizona.

In 2008, a Canadian attorney paid $14 million for a 10,000-square-foot mansion on 5 acres on Mummy Mountain. That’s now the third-priciest home sale in Arizona history.