Desert Vista Homes for Sale — Oro Valley, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Oro Valley, Arizona — incorporated town, Pima County

Average sale price

$683,000

Price range

$450K – $775K

School district

Amphitheater USD (Wilson K-8, Ironwood Ridge High)

What defines this area

• Detached houses built to a median year of 2000 at a $680,000 median
• One 205-lot Town of Oro Valley plat recorded in 1995
• Houses at a median of 2,460 sq ft
• An even rate per square foot across house sizes
• All 37 closings in three years were detached houses
• Houses of 2,500 sq ft or more at a $756,250 median
• Larger houses under contract in a median 7.5 days, smaller in 38
• R1-7 and R1-10 zoning on the Desert Vista lots
• Annexed into the Town of Oro Valley in 1986
• A Desert Vista homeowners association holding about 17 acres of common ground
• An unnamed soil-cement wash through the ground, FEMA Zone X at every sampled point
• Naranja Park about eight-tenths of a mile away
• Wilson K-8 and Ironwood Ridge High attendance areas throughout
• ZIP code 85737 inside the Town of Oro Valley

About Desert Vista

Desert Vista is a subdivision of detached houses in the north-west of the Town of Oro Valley, about 120 acres between Naranja Drive on the south and Glover Road on the north, laid out as one 205-lot Town of Oro Valley plat recorded in 1995 on ground the town had annexed in 1986. Its 37 Residential closings over the three years to October 2026 were all detached houses, built to a median year of 2000, and they closed between $457,500 and $999,500 around a median of $680,000 and an average of about $683,000. The houses are large, at a median of 2,460 square feet, and they sell at an even rate per foot whatever their size: the 18 of 2,500 square feet or more closed at a $756,250 median and $261 a square foot, and the 19 smaller ones at $585,000 and $263. What differed was speed. The larger houses went under contract in a median of 7.5 days and 4 of the 18 took a price reduction; the smaller ones took a median of 38 days and 9 of the 19 were reduced, so here it is the smaller house that waits. Across all 37 the median house took 19 days to go under contract and closed at 98% of its list price, and 4 closed over asking. The Desert Vista lots are zoned R1-7 and R1-10 rather than as a planned area development, at a median of about 0.38 acre, and a Desert Vista homeowners association holds seven common areas totalling about 17 acres, the largest a 12.6-acre open-space tract. On the east edge the boundary also takes in nine lots of Cañada Hills Village 15 on Scioto Avenue, a 1989 plat that belongs to the Cañada Hills planned community next door. An unnamed wash with soil-cement banks runs through the ground under county setbacks of up to 100 feet, and the FEMA flood map shows Zone X at every point sampled; check the specific lot before an offer all the same. Naranja Park, a Town of Oro Valley park, is about eight-tenths of a mile away. Every address is in ZIP 85737 with a Tucson mailing city, though the ground is inside Oro Valley town limits. Schools are Amphitheater Unified throughout: Wilson K-8 and Ironwood Ridge High.

Desert Vista is a suburban neighborhood in the Town of Oro Valley, on the northwest side of the Tucson area, Arizona, served by Amphitheater USD (Wilson K-8, Ironwood Ridge High). Homes trade in the $450K – $775K range, with an average sale price of $683,000. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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