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CantaMia at Estrella is a quiet, guard gated 55+ village inside a 20,000-acre master plan, with a yacht club, a Nicklaus golf course nearby, and one fee setup you need to understand before you buy.
Questions about buying here? Then call or text Jarl at (480) 710-6326 — or send a message.
Let’s get the geography straight, because CantaMia at Estrella confuses almost everybody. Estrella is an enormous master-planned community in Goodyear, with roughly 20,000 acres, four villages, and about 22,000 residents. CantaMia is the 55+ village inside it, with its own guard gate, its own clubhouse, and its own HOA.
So when you buy in CantaMia, you’re buying two things at once: a small, quiet, age-restricted community, and membership in something much larger. Which parts of that larger thing you actually get is the most important question on this page, so let’s answer it first. Founder Jarl Kubat has spent 22+ years helping buyers in the West Valley’s 55+ communities, and this is the question CantaMia buyers ask him most.
The CantaMia market right now
Right now there are about 35 CantaMia homes for sale. Over the last 90 days, 16 homes sold from about $290,000 to $585,000. However, prices change as homes get reduced and the market shifts, so call or text (480) 710-6326 to check today’s numbers. You can also compare CantaMia with 49 other communities on our Arizona 55+ market update.
What your CantaMia dues cover, and what costs extra
This trips up more CantaMia buyers than anything else, so here’s the honest breakdown.
Included in your dues
- Everything in CantaMia. The Village Center, the indoor and outdoor pools, the fitness center, pickleball, tennis, bocce, the art studio, the dog park, and CantaMia’s own lakes.
- The Estrella Yacht Club. Yes, really, and there’s no extra charge. You can take out canoes, kayaks, paddle boats, and sailboats on North Lake, and they even offer sailing lessons.
- North and South Lake: 72 acres of water with about three miles of paved path around them.
- 65+ miles of trails and more than 50 parks across Estrella.
- Resident rates at the Golf Club of Estrella.
Not included: you pay extra
The Starpointe and Presidio Residents’ Clubs. These are Estrella’s big clubs, with pools, fitness centers, and restaurants. However, CantaMia residents don’t get automatic membership, so you buy a pass.
At the last published rates, a pass runs $400 a year for two adults in a household, or $50 a month, $25 a week, or $10 a day. Rates change, so confirm current pricing with the community services office before you count on it.
It also works the other way: residents of Estrella’s other villages can’t use CantaMia’s amenities. So your Village Center is yours, and that’s a big reason CantaMia stays as quiet as it does.
None of this is hidden, but nobody puts it on the front page either. After all, $400 a year for the big clubs is not a lot of money. Being surprised by it after you close, though, is annoying. Now you know.
About the lake: an honest word
CantaMia has a lake, and some CantaMia homes for sale sit right on it. In fact, those are among the most desirable homes in the community, and they don’t come up often.
But let’s be straight with each other. Jarl is originally from Minnesota, so he’ll tell you plainly: these are man-made lakes. They’re lovely and well done, there’s water at your back door, and the paths around them are a real pleasure. Still, if you’re picturing a Minnesota lake, the kind you swim across and put a dock on, that’s not what this is. We’d rather you hear it from us than feel let down when you arrive.
What they are is water in the desert, which is rarer and more valuable than people from wetter states realize. Over at Estrella’s North Lake, there are sailboats and kayaks you can take out as part of your dues. In Arizona. That’s not nothing.
The CantaMia Village Center
CantaMia’s 29,000 sq ft Village Center is the heart of the community, and only CantaMia residents can use it.
The indoor lap pool
It’s heated and indoors, so you swim in January without thinking about it. There’s also an outdoor resort pool, plus a spa and saunas.
The social café & bar
A small café for a sandwich or a coffee, and a small bar area for an afternoon cocktail. It’s not a restaurant, but it’s exactly enough.
Fitness & wellness
Fitness equipment, circuit training, aerobics, a wellness center, and locker rooms.
Courts & outdoors
Pickleball, tennis, bocce, walking greenbelts, a succulent desert garden, and a fenced dog park.
Art studio & demo kitchen
A real art studio, plus a demonstration kitchen for classes and events.
Library & card rooms
A library, billiards, card rooms, and classrooms for computers and crafts.
Pickleball at CantaMia
CantaMia has 6 community pickleball courts, 2 of them lighted. The CantaMia Pickleball Club is open to all residents, and dues are just $20 a year per person. As a result, you get leagues, tournaments, skills clinics, ball machines, and plenty of socials. See how it compares on our Arizona 55+ pickleball communities hub.
Golf near CantaMia: the Golf Club of Estrella
CantaMia doesn’t have its own course, but it doesn’t need one. The Golf Club of Estrella is right there in the master plan. It’s an 18-hole, par-72 championship course running about 7,102 yards, laid out by Jack Nicklaus II for Nicklaus Design and managed by Troon. The signature hole is 17, a par 3 set in the Sonoran desert with the mountains behind it. There’s also the Player’s Grill & Patio at the clubhouse.
The good part: as an Estrella resident, you get resident rates. There’s no mandatory country club membership and no big initiation fee. Instead, you pay to play, at a discount, on a Nicklaus course. For a lot of golfers, that’s a better deal than a club they’d use twice a month. Golf is also separate from your HOA dues, so ask us for current rates, or compare golf communities on our golf course homes guide.
CantaMia homes for sale: see what’s listed now
It’s a small community, and inventory is thin. So here are the live CantaMia homes for sale, and see the models on our CantaMia floor plans page.
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This matters more with CantaMia homes for sale than almost anywhere. It’s a small community, it’s nearly built out, and the good homes, especially the ones on the lake, don’t sit. So if you wait for one to show up on the big search sites, you’re already behind.
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CantaMia HOA fees (2026)
You pay two HOAs here: CantaMia’s and the Estrella master community’s.
| Every month | Notes | 2026 amount |
|---|---|---|
| CantaMia HOA | Your village, including the Village Center and CantaMia amenities | $265 / month |
| Estrella community fee | The master plan: lakes, yacht club, trails, parks | $83 / month |
| Combined monthly | What you’ll actually budget | $348 / month |
| At closing | Notes | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Capital improvement fee | One-time | $3,825 |
| Community enhancement fee | One-time | $500 |
| Transfer fee | One-time | $400 |
| Total at closing | On top of down payment & closing costs | $4,725 |
There’s also a $385 disclosure fee, but the seller pays that one. Also remember that the Starpointe and Presidio pass is separate, at roughly $400 a year for two adults.
Buying a Gemini twin home? Call us first.
CantaMia has Gemini twin homes as well as single-family homes. The single-family homes pay one flat fee. However, the Gemini twin homes carry an additional monthly fee, and it varies, so we won’t print a number here and have it be wrong. See a twin home you like? Then call us, and we’ll verify the exact monthly figure on that specific property before you get attached to it.
CantaMia homes, and a builder history worth knowing
If you look at CantaMia paperwork and old listings, you’ll see different builder names, and it’s confusing. So here’s the actual story.
The community opened as Province at Estrella under Engle Homes. Then Joseph Carl Homes renamed it CantaMia in 2010, AV Homes ran it for several years, and Taylor Morrison took over in 2020 and is finishing it out. That’s four names for one community, which is why the documents don’t always agree.
In practice, CantaMia homes for sale span roughly two decades of construction and several builders’ standards. That’s exactly why we check any specific home for you before you make an offer. After all, a CantaMia home from 2008 and one from 2024 are not the same product.
Very few lots left
CantaMia is essentially at the end of its build cycle. Taylor Morrison is finishing up, and very few lots remain. So if a brand-new home is what you want, rather than one of the resale CantaMia homes for sale, that window is closing. Once it does, this becomes a resale-only community for good.
Is CantaMia a retirement community? Age rules & the under-55 path
Not 55 yet? Read both halves.
The opportunity: federal housing-for-older-persons law lets an age-restricted community keep a limited share of its homes for residents under 55, and builders use that room. While Taylor Morrison is still building, it can generally sell a new home to buyers as young as 45.
After a community is fully built out, however, it’s the community’s own decision whether to keep allowing a percentage of under-55 residents. Most keep that option, while some don’t. It isn’t automatic.
The catch: the policy belongs to the builder and the association, not to us. Also, with lots nearly gone here, this one has a clock on it. So don’t assume; call us, and we’ll find out exactly where CantaMia stands right now, in writing.
The recorded rules that shape daily life
We read CantaMia’s recorded CC&Rs so you know what you’re buying into.
| Rule | What the recorded CC&Rs say |
|---|---|
| Age | A 55+ community: at least 80% of homes must have a 55+ occupant. A permanent co-resident can be as young as 19 if living with a 55+ occupant, and there’s a narrow 40+ path only for original buyers straight from the builder. No permanent residents under 19. |
| Grandkids visiting | Under-19 guests may stay up to 90 days a year, so they’re welcome to visit, not to live here. |
| Parking & RVs | No street parking at all. Instead, cars go in the garage, on your driveway, or in guest areas. RVs, boats, and trailers can’t stay here beyond 24 hours to load or unload, and a small camper truck is fine only if it fits fully inside the garage. |
| Leasing | Six-month minimum, whole home only, so you can’t lease a casita separately. Also, subleasing needs Board approval, and short-term stays aren’t allowed. |
| Exterior changes | Fences, walls, and exterior changes need prior written approval from the Design Review Committee, and the Design Guidelines set the heights. |
The quiet, and the location
The thing residents say most often about CantaMia is that it’s quiet. Truly quiet. That’s because it’s a small community tucked inside a very large one, with its own gate. So if you’ve toured the big Sun Cities and found them a bit much, this will feel like a relief.
Here’s what’s nearby:
- Phoenix Raceway, the NASCAR track, is minutes away. If it isn’t your sport, don’t worry: you won’t hear it from your yard.
- Groceries, restaurants, and a pharmacy are close, plus a shopping center with a medical facility inside Estrella itself.
- Spring training: Goodyear hosts both the Cleveland Guardians and the Cincinnati Reds.
- Downtown Phoenix is about 17 miles east.
- 65+ miles of trails run right out your door and up into the Estrella Mountains.
Is CantaMia right for you?
A great fit if you…
- Want quiet. This is one of the quietest 55+ communities we sell in.
- Want a small, close community, but with a huge master plan’s amenities around it.
- Would actually use an indoor lap pool.
- Like the idea of taking a sailboat out on a Tuesday as part of your dues.
- Golf, and would rather pay resident rates than a mandatory club membership.
- Want a home on the water. They exist here, and they’re worth waiting for.
Worth knowing before you buy…
- The Starpointe and Presidio clubs cost extra, about $400 a year for two adults.
- The lakes are man-made. They’re lovely, but not Minnesota.
- Gemini twin homes carry an extra monthly fee that varies by unit, so verify it on any CantaMia homes for sale before you offer.
- About $4,725 is due at closing in one-time fees.
- There are two HOAs, so budget the combined $348 a month, not one of them.
- Very few new lots are left, so if you want new, the clock is running.
- There’s no restaurant, just a café and a small bar, so dinner means driving.
If any of that gives you pause, let’s talk it through. Sometimes a different community is the better fit, and we’d rather point you to the right home than the nearest one.
Comparing nearby communities?
- PebbleCreek — also Goodyear, but far larger, with 54 holes, 36 pickleball courts, and two clubhouses. The opposite of quiet.
- Victory at Verrado — Buckeye, with two golf courses and a walkable downtown.
- Sterling Grove — Surprise, Toll Brothers luxury with a Nicklaus course. Also still building.
- Sun City Festival — Buckeye, Del Webb, three rec centers and 27 holes.
- Arizona Traditions — Surprise, small and close-knit, with a lower cost of entry.
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Buying one of the last new homes? Talk to us first.
Here’s something a lot of buyers don’t realize: you can, and should, have your own agent when you buy new construction. The friendly agent in the builder’s sales office represents the builder, and their job is to get the best deal for the builder. Ours is the opposite: to get the best deal for you.
On new-home purchases, the builder typically has buyer-agent representation built into its program. So we’ll walk you through exactly how that works, in writing, before you commit to anything.
What we do in your corner:
- Negotiate price, upgrades, lot premiums, and closing timelines. With so few lots left, lot selection is the negotiation.
- Spot and negotiate builder incentives, like rate buydowns, closing-cost credits, and design-center dollars. Builders often get motivated at the end of a build cycle, and that can work for you.
- Read the builder’s contract closely and protect your interests.
- Make sure the full closing stack is in your numbers before you sign.
- Compare a new build honestly against the resale CantaMia homes for sale. Landscaping, window coverings, and appliances usually aren’t in a base price, and they add up fast.
- Track the build and keep the builder accountable, right through closing day.
One rule worth remembering: reach out before you step into the sales office. Many builders require your agent to register with you on that first visit, so a quick call first protects your right to have us on your side. Once you’ve walked in alone, that door can close.
Thinking about buying — or selling — in CantaMia?
I’m Jarl Kubat, a licensed Arizona agent with 22+ years in the state’s 55+ communities. This is a small community with thin inventory, and a lake home comes up only a couple of times a year. So this is exactly the kind of place where having someone watching for you matters.
Call or Text: (480) 710-6326Contact PageFrequently asked questions
CantaMia, Estrella & the clubs
What’s the difference between CantaMia and Estrella?
Estrella is the big all-ages master-planned community in Goodyear, with roughly 20,000 acres, four villages, and about 22,000 residents. CantaMia is the 55+ village inside it, with its own guard gate, clubhouse, and HOA. So you pay both HOAs, and you get CantaMia’s amenities plus most of Estrella’s.
Do I get the yacht club?
Yes, and your dues already cover it. You can take out canoes, kayaks, paddle boats, and sailboats on Estrella’s North Lake, plus take sailing lessons. Sailing in Arizona is a stranger sentence than it should be, and it’s one of the most delightful things about living here.
Can I use the Starpointe and Presidio clubs?
Yes, but you’ll pay extra. Those are Estrella’s big residents’ clubs, so CantaMia residents buy a pass: roughly $400 a year for two adults, or $50 a month, $25 a week, or $10 a day at last published rates. Rates change, though, so confirm before you count on them.
Can Estrella residents use CantaMia’s amenities?
No. Only CantaMia residents can use the Village Center and its amenities. That’s a real benefit, and it’s a big part of why the community stays so quiet.
The lake, golf & dining
Is there really a lake? Can I buy a home on it?
Yes and yes. CantaMia has its own lake, and lakefront homes exist here. They’re among the most desirable CantaMia homes for sale, so get on our watch list if that’s what you want. One honest note: these are man-made lakes, so adjust your expectations if you’re picturing a Minnesota lake.
Is there golf?
Not inside CantaMia. However, the Golf Club of Estrella is right there in the master plan: an 18-hole, par-72 Nicklaus Design course managed by Troon. It’s a daily-fee course with no mandatory membership, and Estrella residents get resident rates. The pro shop is at 623-386-2600.
Is there a restaurant?
Not really, and we won’t pretend otherwise. There’s a small café in the clubhouse and a small bar area for an afternoon cocktail. So for dinner out, you’re driving, but restaurants, groceries, and a pharmacy are close by.
Fees, new homes & the gate
What are the HOA fees?
For 2026, $265 a month to CantaMia and $83 a month to Estrella, so $348 combined. At closing, there’s a $3,825 capital improvement fee, a $500 community enhancement fee, and a $400 transfer fee, about $4,725 in all. Also, the seller pays the $385 disclosure fee, and Gemini twin homes carry an extra monthly fee that varies by unit.
Is CantaMia a good place to retire?
For buyers who want quiet, a small gated community, and big master-plan amenities like the yacht club and trails, yes. However, there’s no restaurant, and the big Estrella clubs cost extra, so we’ll walk you through both.
Can I still buy a brand-new home here?
For now, but not for long. Taylor Morrison is finishing CantaMia, and very few lots are left. Once they’re gone, it’s a resale-only community for good. So if a new home matters to you, talk to us before you visit the sales office.
Is CantaMia gated?
Yes. It’s guard gated, with a guard on duty around the clock. Residents get a transponder and drive straight through, while visitors stop at the gate.
Why do I see different builder names?
Because there have been four. The community opened as Province at Estrella under Engle Homes, then became CantaMia under Joseph Carl Homes in 2010, ran under AV Homes for several years, and Taylor Morrison took over in 2020. That’s why old listings don’t always agree.
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Listing accuracy: Property listings and availability come from the Arizona Regional MLS; we believe them accurate but can’t guarantee them. Listings change throughout the day, so confirm details with your agent before relying on them.
Market figures: The market snapshot covers CantaMia over a trailing 90-day period as of the date shown, from the Arizona Regional MLS. We refresh it monthly, so confirm current numbers with your agent.
Fees & community information: Fees are current for 2026 as provided and can change. Gemini twin home fees vary by unit, so verify them individually. Estrella sets the Starpointe and Presidio pass rates, and they change. Amenities, golf rates, age rules, and CC&Rs are summarized for general information. The builder sets new-home pricing, incentives, lot inventory, and age policies, and they change without notice. Verify all figures and rules with the associations, the builder, or your licensed agent before you buy. This page is independent buyer-focused information and is not affiliated with Taylor Morrison, Estrella, or the CantaMia HOA. Jarl Kubat is a licensed Arizona real estate agent with West USA Realty.
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