$3,295,000
Behind the private bridge at the top of Ponticello, the horizon opens for a hundred miles. This is the highest perch inside Tramonto's 24-lot gated enclave -- a 7,131-square-foot Santa Barbara-inspired estate set on 1.41 hillside acres, where hand-carved Cantera stone frames sightlines that stretch across the North Valley to the mountains beyond, and where the city ignites the desert floor at dusk. The address is 2433 West Praiano Way. The view is the room every architect chased. Built in 2008 and refined for a buyer who treats a home as infrastructure, the residence delivers seven bedrooms, five full and one half bath, and a full finished walk-out basement -- a rare specification at this elevation, engineered into the hillside so the lower level opens directly to the terrace, the pool, and the panorama. A dedicated theater room anchors the entertainment wing. Three fireplaces -- living room, primary suite, and a sculpted outdoor fire pit -- thread continuity between interior and courtyard. The primary suite is positioned to capture the long southern sightline, with a spa-scaled bath, dual vanities, and a separate soaking tub and shower composition. Stone, concrete, and warmed wood tones move through the plan; the material palette reads as commissioned rather than selected.
The garage is a category unto itself. Six bays, over-height and RV-ready, extended in length, temperature-controlled, with direct interior access and side-vehicle entry -- configured with lifts to expand capacity to fourteen recorded parking positions. It is the answer to the collector question, the Lake Pleasant question, and the desert-toy question at once, and it exists at this scale nowhere else within the gates.
Outside, the resort composition holds its own against the view: a private pool set into the terrace, a fire pit calibrated for the southern exposure, desert-forward landscape front and back, and a walk-out geometry that turns the elevation into an amenity rather than a constraint. Nights here are quiet. Sunsets are the reason the community carries its name.
Location is where the numbers compound. The estate sits approximately ten minutes across Interstate 17 from TSMC Arizona's north Phoenix campus -- the largest foreign direct investment in United States history and an active semiconductor manufacturing corridor with a second fab completed in 2026 and additional phases underway. Lake Pleasant Regional Park and its twenty-three thousand acres of open water sit roughly twenty-five minutes west via the connecting freeway grid. Sky Harbor International is inside a thirty-minute run down I-17. The Carefree Highway interchange is a mile and a half from the private gate. Deer Valley Unified School District serves the community, with Boulder Creek High School inside the boundary.
Ponticello turns over rarely. This residence trades once a decade, and the ones with the top-of-hill sightline, the lift-equipped RV garage, and the finished walk-out basement trade almost never. For the executive relocating into the semiconductor corridor, the collector who has run out of bays elsewhere, or the buyer who wants Paradise Valley privacy without the Paradise Valley price, the address answers all three questions from the same terrace.
Seven bedrooms. Six-car lift-equipped garage. Full finished walk-out basement. Theater room. Private pool. 1.41 acres. Gated Ponticello at Tramonto. The view is the closing argument.
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2433 W Praiano Way, Phoenix