Highland Vista Cinco Via Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$397,000

Price range

$300K – $475K+

School district

Tucson Unified School District

Approximate population

~700

Approximate number of homes

~450 homes

What defines this area

• A volunteer-run neighborhood pool sold as an annual membership, not an HOA fee
• No association name, fee or fee frequency on any of the last 34 closings
• Two adjoining City of Tucson parks, a five-acre strip along Arcadia Wash
• Mid-century red-brick and burnt-adobe ranch houses, median year built 1955
• All 34 closings in three years were detached single-family houses
• Nothing closed under $250,000 in three years; the lowest close was $253,000
• Living areas about 1,060–2,783 sq ft, median near 1,897
• Lots about 0.15–0.38 acre, median near 0.20; 27 of 34 recorded no garage
• Highland Vista Garden, seventeen plots run by Community Gardens of Tucson
• A half-mile square inside Fifth Street, Broadway, Rosemont and Craycroft (ZIP 85711)
• 160.8 acres by the City of Tucson's own polygon, against 160 for a quarter-section
• 386 lots platted 1952–1978; Highland Vista and Cinco Via both recorded in 1952
• One elementary attendance area covers the whole boundary — confirm by address

About Highland Vista Cinco Via

Highland Vista Cinco Via is a half-mile square of 1950s ranch houses in midtown Tucson that keeps two City of Tucson parks, a community garden and a volunteer-run neighborhood swimming pool within its own four streets, and carried no homeowners association on any of its last 34 closings. It sits inside the city limits in ZIP 85711, bounded by Fifth Street on the north, Broadway Boulevard on the south, Rosemont Boulevard on the west and Craycroft Road on the east — the same four streets the neighborhood association names, and the same polygon the City registers, which measures 160.8 acres against 160 for a quarter-section. Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Streets run east–west through it alongside Burns and Holmes Streets, with Alberta Drive cutting between Seventh and Eighth and Cloverland Avenue, Woodland Vista and Beverly Avenue as the short north–south lanes. Every one of the last 34 closings was a detached single-family house: over three years this boundary produced no condominium, townhouse or co-op sale at all. Those houses were built to a median year of 1955, running from 1952 to 1966, with living areas from about 1,060 to 2,783 square feet and a median near 1,897, on lots of about 0.15 to 0.38 acre with a median near 0.20. The closed record has no low tail: nothing sold under $250,000 in three years, the lowest close was $253,000, and only four of the 34 closed below $300,000. Twenty-six landed between $300,000 and $475,000 and four cleared $475,000, the highest at $669,000, so the average closed price near $397,000 sits only about 6% above the $376,200 median — what one build era of comparable houses produces rather than two different markets averaged together. Not one of those 34 closings carried an association name, an association fee or a fee frequency, and four listing agents state it outright. What the neighborhood runs instead is voluntary. The Highland Vista Neighborhood Association describes its pool as 100% volunteer-managed and sells annual memberships to residents and to the general public, and it is the home pool of a summer swim team; fourteen of the 34 closings describe it from the other side, as a membership offered rather than a fee assessed. Highland Vista Park and 20-30 Club Park, about 3.6 and 1.6 acres, are City of Tucson municipal parks that adjoin each other inside the neighborhood to form a continuous green strip of roughly five acres along the north side of Arcadia Wash, a mapped watercourse in Pima County's regulated wash network. Highland Vista Park holds the Highland Vista Garden — seventeen plots, seven raised and ten in-ground, which Community Gardens of Tucson lists among the gardens it manages — and the neighborhood association describes the rest of it as a field, a ball diamond, play structures, picnic facilities and a little library. Pima County's recorded plats show how the ground was laid out and when. Highland Vista, 189 lots, was recorded in January 1952 and Cinco Via, 76 lots, in April 1952 — the two subdivisions whose names the association's own name pairs. Rosemont Park added 82 lots in November 1954, a five-lot Highland Vista resubdivision followed in July 1955 and Cloverland Addition 21 more in January 1963, and the only later plat is Broadmont, thirteen small lots recorded in April 1978. That is 386 platted lots, 373 of them by January 1963, which corroborates the year-built record on the closings from a government source. Independent agents across that record describe the same stock: mid-century red-brick and burnt-adobe ranch houses with vaulted and exposed wood-beam ceilings, red-brick fireplaces and planters, corner windows and walls of glass, enclosed Arizona rooms, saltillo and polished concrete floors, deep carports rather than garages on most of them, circular and semi-circular driveways, block-walled back gardens under mature shade and citrus trees, rear alley access on some blocks, and Santa Catalina Mountain views from the north-facing lots. Bedrooms across the 34 run two to five with three the most common, twenty-seven recorded no garage spaces at all, and eleven described a private pool of their own. Everyday retail is on the Broadway Boulevard corridor along the south edge, with Williams Centre about a third of a mile south, Park Place about eight-tenths of a mile east on Broadway, Tucson Medical Center about 1.8 miles north, El Con Center about 2.2 miles west, Reid Park about 2.5 miles west-south-west, Banner – University Medical Center Tucson about four miles west-north-west, the University of Arizona campus about 4.4 miles west-north-west and downtown Tucson about 5.6 miles west. Homes are in the Tucson Unified School District, and one elementary attendance area covers the whole boundary — W Arthur Sewel Elementary about half a mile east, with Alice Vail Middle School about half a mile south and Rincon High School about a quarter mile west also returned as assigned. All three stand outside the neighborhood, and the elementary school physically closest to it, Duffy Elementary on Fifth Street at the north edge, is not the one the boundary is assigned to, so confirm attendance by address. The Highland Vista Cinco Via Neighborhood Association has been registered with the City of Tucson since March 1985 and is listed as active in Ward 6.

Highland Vista Cinco Via is an urban neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the central side of metro Tucson, Arizona, served by Tucson Unified School District. Homes trade in the $300K – $475K+ range, with an average sale price of $397,000 across roughly 450 homes and a population of about 700. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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