Scottsdale is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Phoenix with average asking rent around $40/sqft/yr.

  • Premium suburban Class A market.
  • Prime tier — ~$40/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Scottsdale, Phoenix — Class A submarket

Premium suburban Class A market. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: $40/sqft/yr

TL;DR

  • Premium suburban Class A market.
  • Prime tier — ~$40/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Scottsdale anchors Phoenix's premium suburban Class A submarket — financial services, tech, and corporate HQs in mid-rise product along Scottsdale Road and Kierland.

Tenant profile

Financial services, tech, corporate HQs, healthcare.

Typical specification

15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.

Transit

Valley Metro bus; car-dependent.

Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.

Amenities

Scottsdale Fashion Square, Kierland Commons, Old Town.

Comparable buildings

  • Galleria Corporate Centre
  • Optima Kierland
  • Scottsdale Quarter

Where Scottsdale sits in Phoenix

Scottsdale is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Phoenix, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around $40/sqft/yr. Compared with the broader Phoenix Class A stock, Scottsdale typically attracts Financial services, tech, corporate HQs, healthcare and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Scottsdale: Camelback Corridor, Tempe / Town Lake, Downtown Phoenix, Chandler / Gilbert. The full Phoenix submarket atlas is at /cities/phoenix.

Topic deep-dives for Scottsdale

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Scottsdale, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:

Related glossary

Terminology specific to Phoenix Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

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