Doolen-Fruitvale Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$253,000

Price range

$125K – $400K

School district

TUSD (Blenman Elementary, Doolen Middle, Catalina High)

Approximate population

~1,700

Approximate number of homes

~790 homes

What defines this area

• Detached houses at a $319,000 median, built from 1941 to 1976
• The 1924 Fruitvale Addition and three Roberts plats from 1939 to 1941
• Doolen Middle School inside the boundary
• Condominium and townhouse courts recorded from 1980 to 2008
• A $260,000 median across 37 closings in three years
• Houses of 1,000 sq ft or more at a $335,000 median
• Five condominiums at a $150,000 median and three townhouses at $260,000
• Six of 37 closed over asking; 15 took a price reduction
• R-2 zoning on 450 of 485 county parcels, and none zoned R-1
• Glenn Street, Palo Verde Avenue, Grant Road and Country Club Road as edges
• Annexed into the City of Tucson under a 1959 ordinance
• A City-registered Doolen/Fruitvale neighborhood association since 2002
• Three recorded homeowners associations, for Acacia Pueblos and two condominiums
• FEMA Zone X at all 121 sample points
• Inside the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base vicinity disclosure territory
• Blenman Elementary, Doolen Middle and Catalina High attendance areas throughout
• Ward 3 and ZIP code 85716

About Doolen-Fruitvale

Doolen-Fruitvale is a quarter-section of north-central Tucson, about 159 acres, bounded by Glenn Street on the north, Palo Verde Avenue on the east, Grant Road on the south and Country Club Road on the west, and it is mostly older detached houses with a few condominium and townhouse courts set among them. Of its 37 Residential closings over the three years to October 2026, 29 were detached houses, built between 1941 and 1976 to a median year of 1951, and they closed between $70,000 and $395,000 around a median of $319,000; five were condominiums and three were townhouses. Inside the four edges, Flower Street, Bermuda Street, Water Street, Towner Street and Almartin Street run east to west, with Edith, Flanwill and Sparkman Boulevards running north to south, and Doolen Middle School, a Tucson Unified campus at 2400 North Country Club Road, stands on the west side of the boundary. The City of Tucson's registered Doolen/Fruitvale neighborhood association, registered in April 2002, covers the same ground: its outline measures about 159 acres, the same as the boundary, and the two agree on more than 99% of their area. The neighborhood shares its name with the middle school and with the Fruitvale Addition, the oldest plat inside it; this page has not established who the school is named for. The ground was platted in two eras. Pima County records the Fruitvale Addition, of 18 lots in eight blocks, in June 1924, then the Roberts Addition, of 20 lots, in 1939, Roberts No. 2, of 42 lots, in 1940, Roberts No. 3, of 18 lots, in 1941, and the Almartin Addition, of 12 lots, in 1945. Most of those large early lots have since been divided, so 191 of the 485 county parcels wholly inside the boundary carry a Fruitvale Addition legal description and 74 an Almartin Addition one. A second round of plats added attached housing: the Glenn-Verde Condominiums in 1980, Park Place in 1981, the Country Club View Condominiums in 1983, Acacia Pueblos, of 30 lots, in 1984, the Waters Edge Condominium in 1995, Pueblo Verde in 1998, and the Villa Bermuda Condominiums and the Palo Verde Plaza Apartments plat, both in 2008. A two-lot split on Edith Boulevard was recorded in 2025. The City of Tucson's year-built layer dates the structures on 483 of the parcels from 1927 to 2009, to a median of 1957: 123 from the 1940s, 110 from the 1950s and 88 from the 1980s. Zoning is R-2 nearly throughout. All 485 parcels carry the county's TUCSON jurisdiction code, 450 of them are zoned R-2, the City's residential zone that also allows attached and multi-unit housing, and none is zoned R-1; C-1 and C-2 commercial and O-3 office zoning line parts of the Grant Road and Country Club Road frontages. The sales record reads best in its three groups rather than as one number. The 29 detached houses closed around a median of $319,000, at a median of about $242 a square foot on a median 1,177 square feet. Size, more than age, divides them. The 19 houses of 1,000 square feet or more closed between $195,000 and $395,000, around a median of $335,000 on a median 1,333 square feet, at about $247 a square foot; the 10 smaller houses closed between $70,000 and $263,000, around a median of $163,750 on a median 874 square feet, at about $218 a square foot; and both groups' median build year falls in 1951 or 1952. The six houses that closed at $350,000 or more, the top of the record, were built between 1941 and 1951 and measured a median of 1,530 square feet. So a house here is priced against houses of a similar size rather than against the neighborhood's median, and a condominium or townhouse against its own kind. The five condominiums closed between $130,000 and $155,000, around a median of $150,000, on a median 898 square feet, and were built between 1982 and 1985. The three townhouses closed between $258,000 and $290,000, around a median of $260,000, and were built in 1985 and 1986. Taken together, the 37 closed around a median of $260,000 and an average of $253,170, figures that blend the three groups. The median listing went under contract in 12.5 days, and the record closed at 98 cents on the list dollar; six of the 37 closed above their asking price and 15 took at least one price reduction. The range printed at the top of this page holds 34 of the 37 closings, which ran from $130,000 to $395,000. The three below it were houses that closed between $70,000 and $85,000, and nothing closed between $85,000 and $130,000. Over the same three years, 13 residential income properties also closed inside the boundary, between $175,000 and $552,000 around a median of $395,000; they are counted separately from the houses and are not in the range at the top of this page. These are closed sales, not homes currently for sale, and they are medians over small groups; a valuation still works from closely matched sales. The whole boundary came into the City of Tucson under one annexation ordinance, number 1895, which the county and City annexation layers both date to 1959, not deannexed, and all of it sits in Ward 3. Three homeowners associations appear on the City of Tucson's homeowners association layer, for Acacia Pueblos, the Country Club View Condominiums and the Waters Edge Condominium. No association is recorded against the Fruitvale, Roberts or Almartin lots in the records consulted, and none of those records carries a dues figure, so this page publishes none; the title work and the resale disclosure answer that for a specific lot. There is no City park inside the boundary apart from the school grounds. La Madera Park, a 5.8-acre City park at 2700 East La Madera Drive, and Seneca Park, at 3701 East Seneca Street, are both within a little over half a mile of it. FEMA's flood map returns Zone X, an area of minimal flood hazard, at all 121 interior sample points. Pima County maps a regulated setback of 50 feet on Christmas Wash along the Country Club Road edge and 25 feet on one small unnamed flow path. A setback is drawn from the mapped channel and not from a lot line, and a sample point is not a flood determination for any particular property, so check the flood map for a specific address. Pima County maps 118 of the 121 interior points inside the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base vicinity, the territory Arizona Revised Statutes section 28-8461 defines and section 28-8484 attaches a seller disclosure to; the statute keys that territory to a map the State Land Department prepares rather than to a county layer, so treat the county layer as the indication and the state map as the answer for a specific parcel. Grant Road, Country Club Road, Glenn Street and Palo Verde Avenue each check against Pima County's own street centrelines, and all 594 official address points inside the line read ZIP code 85716. Dodge Flower, the quarter-section east across Palo Verde Avenue, has its own page on this site. Schools are Tucson Unified throughout. Pima County's attendance-area layer returns the same three campuses at every interior sample point, Blenman Elementary, Doolen Middle and Catalina High, and LiveBy's assignment query names the same three. Assignments are drawn by address and change, so confirm a specific address with the district.

Doolen-Fruitvale is an urban neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the central side of the Tucson area, Arizona, served by TUSD (Blenman Elementary, Doolen Middle, Catalina High). Homes trade in the $125K – $400K range, with an average sale price of $253,000 across roughly 790 homes and a population of about 1,700. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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