Arizona’s Family partners with St. Jude for Dream Home Giveaway in Apache Junction

Published: Nov. 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona’s Family is partnering again with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to give away a Dream Home and raise money for children battling cancer nationwide.

The 2027 St. Jude Dream Home sits in the Portfolio at Blossom Rock community in Apache Junction, near Ironwood Drive and Ray Avenue. Richmond American, a Sekisui House U.S. company, is the builder.

The home is 2,200 square feet and includes four bedrooms, two baths and a two-car garage. It’s value is estimated at $760,000.

Groundbreaking will be held on Nov. 19.

Features of the home include:

  • Open-concept design – Ideal for entertaining
  • Oversized primary closet – Luxury space for your wardrobe
  • Expansive butler’s & walk-in pantry – 42” upper cabinets, waterfall countertop
  • Covered patio & professionally finished front and backyard

This year, 15,000 tickets will be sold, a two-thousand ticket increase from 2026. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Feb. 24, 2027, for $100 each.

The home will be open for public tours every weekend from its April 3 grand opening through April 25.

It all builds up to the grand giveaway on Wednesday, April 28, 2027.

The 2027 St. Jude Dream Home sits in the Portfolio at Blossom Rock community in Apache Junction.
The 2027 St. Jude Dream Home sits in the Portfolio at Blossom Rock community in Apache Junction.(Arizona's Family)

This will be the third Dream Home given away on Arizona’s Family and the second one in the East Valley. The first home was given away in Queen Creek, and the second in Glendale.

About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital:

  • Located in Memphis, Tenn., St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
  • Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – so they can focus on helping their child live.
  • Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened in 1962. And they won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
  • Since the majority of St. Jude’s funding comes from individual contributions, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situation.
  • St. Jude cares for some of the world’s sickest children regardless of their race, ethnicity, beliefs or ability to pay. Patients receive the customized care they need to treat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases, no matter what barriers they may face.
  • St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
  • St. Jude treats more than 8,000 patients each year for childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases, the majority of whom are treated as outpatients.

Childhood cancer facts:

  • Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children ages 1 to 14.
  • Each year, approximately 16,000 children and teens in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer.
  • Nearly 10% of children with cancer develop the disease because of a genetic condition.
  • Thanks in part to better therapies St. Jude has helped to develop, more than 80% of U.S. childhood cancer patients now become long-term survivors.

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