Pinal County, Arizona
Sell your land in Superior for cash
Parcel Buyers buys vacant-coded lots in the Superior ZIP 85173 area for cash, including small parcels with no water, sewer, or road work. You get a written, no-obligation cash offer within 24 hours, and closings run through an independent, licensed title company, typically in about 10 days, with no fees or commissions.
By Parcel Buyers · · Lot figures from the 2027 Arizona parcel and assessment data · How we made this page
Quick answers
- Who buys land for cash in Superior?
- Parcel Buyers is a direct land buyer that makes written, no-obligation cash offers on vacant lots and acreage in Superior, Pinal County, usually within 24 hours. Sales close through an independent title company, typically in about 10 days, with no fees or commissions to the seller.
- How many vacant lots are in Superior?
- The 2027 Arizona parcel and assessment data lists 346 vacant residential lots in Superior; 35% are micro lots, and the median lot is 0.13 acre.
- How is a cash offer for land in Superior set?
- We start from recent sales of similar lots nearby, like the 2025 prices on this page, then adjust for water and sewer, road access, flood zone, lot size and any title issues, and for the time and cost of reselling. You get one written number, not a range.
- How do I know a land buyer in Superior is legitimate?
- A real buyer closes through an independent, licensed title company and never asks you to pay anything up front. We never charge sellers a fee, deposit or closing-cost advance, and the title company pays you by check or wire at closing.
Local data
Superior land at a glance
Tax-roll figures cover vacant lots on the Pinal County Assessor's parcel map service whose parcel coordinate falls inside the ZIP 85173 area (Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 85173); owners with a mailing address in that ZIP give Superior as their city; this is a ZIP area, not a city boundary; lots with no coordinate are in no place in Pinal County. Local rules and services are sourced below.
| Vacant residential lots | 346 parcels classified vacant residential on the 2027 Arizona parcel and assessment data [1] |
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| Most common lot size | Micro lot (2,000–5,000 sq ft): 35% of vacant lots; next, patio-home lot at 21%. Median lot: 0.13 acre (5,760 sq ft). [1] |
| Typical county full cash value | $25,500 median county full cash value for a vacant lot; the middle half fall between $17,700 and $34,500 [1] |
| Recent lot sale prices | Too few arm's-length vacant-lot sales in 2025 to report a reliable median for Superior [1] |
| Owners who live elsewhere | 12% of vacant lots have an owner mailing address outside Arizona (most often CA, OH, PA) [1] |
| ZIP 85173 defines the count | The figures cover Pinal County lots whose coordinate falls inside Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 85173. The dataset does not use the Town of Superior boundary. [1],[9] |
| Jurisdiction needs a boundary check | The ZIP area does not establish town limits. If a parcel is outside Superior, Pinal County Planning handles zoning and development review for unincorporated county land. [2],[1] |
| Superior public-water system | ADEQ lists the active Arizona Water Company Superior groundwater system with 1,371 connections, three active wells, and 2.252 million gallons per day of design capacity. [3] |
| A local utility office exists | Arizona Water Company identifies a Superior office on North Magma Avenue and provides a service-area map, water-quality reports, and rate information from the same page. [4] |
| County handles flood permits | Pinal County names Superior as one of seven county-dependent communities that rely on the county for floodplain management and permitting. [5] |
| Septic review has published fees | Pinal County lists $296 for a septic tank system under 2,999 gallons per day and $94 for a site investigation or evaluation. [7] |
| Tonto National Forest | Superior's 2022 General Plan says a 2021 annexation nearly quadrupled the town's size and added a portion of Tonto National Forest, Boyce Thompson Arboretum, and nearby private parcels. [10] |
Data: Mohave County Assessor's Office, Pinal County Assessor's Office, Cochise County Assessor, Santa Cruz County Assessor, Pima County Assessor, Graham County Assessor and La Paz County Assessor. Counts, medians and shares only; no owner names, parcel numbers, addresses or row-level data are published.
Pricing
What is a lot in Superior worth?
These are open-market sale prices. A direct cash offer is usually lower, because a cash buyer closes in days and takes on the time and cost of reselling the lot.
What moves the price in Superior
Small lot dimensions and usable area
The ZIP 85173 dataset contains 346 vacant-coded lots, with a median size of 5,760 square feet. The leading size group is micro lots at 35%. A small parcel can lose practical space to setbacks, easements, slope, access, drainage, or utility placement. That is why the recorded dimensions and applicable zone matter more than the ZIP label alone. Parcel Buyers reviews the parcel map, jurisdiction, access, utilities, and title before offering, rather than assuming every lot in the area has the same development path. [1],[2]
Water service and line proximity
ADEQ lists an active Superior groundwater system with three active wells, 1,371 connections, and 2.252 million gallons per day of design capacity. Arizona Water Company also publishes a local office and service-area materials. Those system-level facts do not prove that a water main reaches a specific lot or that a meter can be added. A buyer will seek current service confirmation, check any connection conditions, and identify the alternative water plan before assigning a price. The ZIP-based tax dataset cannot answer that utility question. [3],[4]
Floodplain permit and elevation work
Pinal County performs floodplain management for Superior. Any development proposed within a floodplain needs a Floodplain Use Permit before construction, separate from a single-lot building permit. The county warns that a structure may have to be elevated one foot above the base flood elevation. A lot near a wash or mapped hazard can therefore require survey, engineering, elevation, and drainage work before a project moves forward. The county map or a written determination is needed because a ZIP-wide label cannot show which parcel is affected. [5],[6]
County full cash value is not a price
The assessor's county full cash value has a median of $25,500, with a middle half of $17,700–$34,500 for the vacant-coded lots in this ZIP area. That field is an assessment value, not market value and not a sale price. This page does not quote a sale median because the available one-lot 2025 sample is below the publication threshold. A cash offer instead turns on parcel size and shape, jurisdiction, utility reach, flood and slope constraints, legal access, liens, and the title work needed to transfer the land. [1]
Common situations
Selling land in Superior in these situations
Your small lot has an unclear use
You can still ask for an offer when you do not know the zoning or setback rules. The 85173 figures follow a ZIP area, not the Town of Superior boundary. If the parcel is outside town limits, Pinal County Planning handles zoning and related review. We identify the governing office, read the available records, and inspect the land before offering. If the inspection does not support a purchase, the seller does not pay for it. [2],[1]
The parcel may be near a flood hazard
A mapped flood issue does not automatically prevent a sale. It does affect the review and may reduce usable area or add engineering costs. Pinal County is the floodplain manager for Superior and requires a separate Floodplain Use Permit for development in a floodplain. We use the map, county determination, access conditions, and any elevation requirement when evaluating the parcel. You can sell the land as it sits; you do not need to complete a building project first. [5],[6]
Taxes or another lien remain open
You may still be able to close with taxes or a recorded lien outstanding. Arizona normally sets property-tax due dates on October 1 and March 1, with delinquency after November 1 and May 1 at 5 p.m. An independent title company researches the record and obtains payoff instructions. With the seller's consent, back taxes or liens can be paid from the sale proceeds, allowing the payoff and transfer to happen in one closing. [8]
Step by step
How do I sell my land in Superior?
From your first message to money in hand, with nothing left out. Requesting an offer costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
See every detail of the process-
Tell us about your land
Fill out the short form (about 60 seconds) or email us. A land specialist reaches out to confirm the details, usually the same business day.
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Get your cash offer within 24 hours
We review the property and send a written, no-obligation cash offer within 24 hours. It is a real number, not a range. Take it or leave it, with no pressure either way.
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Sign electronically
If you accept, everyone signs the purchase agreement electronically. There is nothing to print or mail at this stage.
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We inspect, the title company verifies
Our team inspects the land and an independent title company runs a title search for liens or taxes owed. If the land does not pass inspection, you are never charged anything.
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Close and get paid
The title company prepares the closing documents for notarization and issues your funds by standard check, overnight check, or wire transfer. A typical sale closes in 10 days.
Questions
Selling land in Superior: common questions
Are these figures limited to the Town of Superior?
No. They cover Pinal County vacant-coded lots whose coordinates fall in the ZIP 85173 Census area. A ZIP area is not a municipal boundary, so zoning authority and permit steps must be confirmed for the individual parcel before a use is assumed.
Does the Superior water system reach every lot in ZIP 85173?
No. ADEQ lists the active system and Arizona Water Company publishes local service information, but neither system-level record proves that a main or meter is available to one parcel. Current written confirmation from the utility is needed for that answer.
Who handles floodplain permits in Superior?
Pinal County does. The county lists Superior among seven county-dependent communities for floodplain management. Development in a mapped floodplain requires a county Floodplain Use Permit, separate from the single-lot building permit, and elevation conditions may apply.
Can I sell a parcel that has no septic approval?
Yes. We buy vacant land without completed septic work. If sewer is unavailable and a future use needs onsite wastewater, Pinal County lists $296 for a septic tank system under 2,999 gallons per day and $94 for a site evaluation. Those fees are not an installed-system quote or proof that the site will qualify.
Do I need to travel to Superior for the closing?
No. You may sign electronically or use a mail-away package. The independent, licensed title company verifies ownership, clears required title items, records the deed, and sends payment by check or wire. Timing is typically about 10 days after signing, depending on title.
Owner resources
Guides for your situation
- Can You Build on a Vacant Lot?
Maybe. A vacant lot is buildable only if the proposed use fits the rules that apply to that parcel and the site can satisfy access, utility, environmental, and permit requirements. Start with the local planning or zoning office, confirm that the parcel is a legal lot, and get a written parcel-specific answer. A zoning label or tax parcel number alone is not approval to build.[1][2]
- Can You Sell Land With a Lien?
Yes. Land with a lien can often be sold, but signing a deed does not by itself erase a valid claim. The lien may need to be paid, released, discharged, or otherwise resolved under the law that applies. With the seller's consent, an approved payoff can come from sale proceeds at closing. If the balance or lien is wrong, dispute it before closing and require proof of the cure.
- How Cash Land Buyers Price Offers
A cash-land offer may start with verified sales of land with similar use, then adjust those sales for meaningful differences.[1] Buyers may also account for access, utilities, legal use, size, shape, flood and soil questions, title issues, demand, and costs and risk they will carry. No universal assessed-value percentage applies. Compare each written offer by expected net proceeds, contingencies, seller work, and timing—not one asking price or headline number.
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Get your cash offer
Four short steps, about 60 seconds. We review your property and send a written, no-obligation cash offer within 24 hours. You can take it or leave it.
What happens after you send this
- A land specialist reaches out, usually the same business day, to confirm the details.
- You get a written cash offer within 24 hours: a real number, not a range.
- You decide. Requesting an offer costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
You will never be asked to pay us anything. No deposit, no processing fee, no closing-cost advance.
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How we made this page
Parcel Buyers is a land-buying company based in Florida. We buy vacant land directly from owners and publish these local pages so owners can see what land in their area is doing before they sell, to us or anyone else. We count the tax-roll figures ourselves from state data, take local rules and fees from the official sources listed below, and use AI tools to help research and draft the text. Every number links to its source, and we update the page when the data changes.
Method and sources
Parcel and assessment figures cover vacant lots on the Pinal County Assessor's parcel map service whose parcel coordinate falls inside the ZIP 85173 area (Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 85173); owners with a mailing address in that ZIP give Superior as their city; this is a ZIP area, not a city boundary; lots with no coordinate are in no place. Source [1] is our own aggregate count of public parcel records from the named Arizona county assessor. A place scope may be a ZIP area, assessor market area or normalized subdivision family; use the exact scope and do not treat it as municipal limits or a buildability finding. Vacant-lot counts use mohave: use codes 0001-0004 and 0011-0014, improvement value 0, non-exempt, positive acreage, with government and HOA owners excluded in-query. Pinal: use codes 0011, 0013 and 0014 with legal class 02RL, with government and HOA owners excluded in-query. Cochise: use_code 0011 or 0013 and accttype Vacant. Santa Cruz: IMPVAL=0 and LANDVAL>0, excluding county-owned, under-0.05-acre, and HOA records. Vacant nonresidential and agricultural parcels are not derived (0). Pima: parcel use 0011, 0012, 0013 or 0014 with positive GIS acreage. Graham: account type Vacant with positive GIS acreage. La Paz: property use code 13 or 14 with positive acreage. Government and HOA owners are excluded in-query in all three; because none of these three layers carries an improvement-value field, each county was screened with a seeded 150-centroid sample against the FEMA/ORNL USA Structures public layer (Pima 1/150, Graham 0/150, La Paz 4/150). Lot sizes use mohave PARCEL_SIZE acres; Pinal LANDSF square feet or STATEDAREA acres when blank; Cochise acres; Santa Cruz Acreage. Acre fields are multiplied by 43,560 and bucketed with the Parcel Buyers lot-size chart ([low, high) square feet). Values use county full cash value on the current record: Mohave FULL_CASH_VALUE, Pinal CNTASSDVAL, Cochise fcv and Santa Cruz FCV. These are assessor values, not sale prices or buildability findings. Pima full cash value (FCV). Graham and La Paz publish no value field, so their value row is withheld. Owner locations use owner mailing-address state on the county record; in_state = Arizona; blank state = unknown. Sale figures use each county keeps only a parcel's most recent sale. Mohave uses calendar-2025 WD/SWD records on one parcel per receipt. Pinal uses calendar-2025 W1/X records with unique date-and-price pairs. Santa Cruz joins calendar-2025 recorded sales to current clean parcels, keeps WD/SWD current deed types, $1,000+, one parcel per reception number, and prices no more than 10 times land value plus $20,000. These are conservative recorded-sale proxies, not verified arm's-length flags. Cochise has no free county sale-price source, so its sale rows are suppressed. Treat medians as a guide to county records, not as an offer or an appraisal. Page updated October 8, 2026.
Data: Mohave County Assessor's Office, Pinal County Assessor's Office, Cochise County Assessor, Santa Cruz County Assessor, Pima County Assessor, Graham County Assessor and La Paz County Assessor. Counts, medians and shares only; no owner names, parcel numbers, addresses or row-level data are published.
- [1] Mohave County Assessor's Office, Pinal County Assessor's Office, Cochise County Assessor, Santa Cruz County Assessor, Pima County Assessor, Graham County Assessor and La Paz County Assessor (data); Parcel Buyers (analysis), Arizona county assessor public parcel services (Mohave, Pinal, Cochise, Santa Cruz, Pima, Graham and La Paz) (accessed 2026-11-06)
- [2] Pinal County, Pinal County Planning (accessed 2026-10-08)
- [3] Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, Arizona Water Company Superior water system details (accessed 2026-10-08)
- [4] Arizona Water Company, Superior water service office and resources (accessed 2026-10-08)
- [5] Pinal County, Floodplain permitting (accessed 2026-10-08)
- [6] Pinal County, Am I in a Floodplain? (accessed 2026-10-08)
- [7] Pinal County, Aquifer Protection (Septic & Wells) (accessed 2026-10-08)
- [8] Arizona State Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes 42-18052: due dates and delinquency (accessed 2026-10-08)
- [9] U.S. Census Bureau, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) (accessed 2026-10-08)
- [10] Town of Superior, 2022 Superior General Plan (accessed 2026-10-08)