Miramonte Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Miramonte is a midtown Tucson neighborhood holding two housing markets on one half-section: a detached core built out in the 1940s and 1950s, and condominiums and townhomes platted into the same streets from 1973 to 1985. It sits inside the Tucson city limits in ZIP 85716, between Speedway, Fifth Street, Country Club and Alvernon. The City of Tucson's own polygon for it — Speedway Boulevard on the north, Fifth Street on the south, Country Club Road on the west and Alvernon Way on the east — measures 322.7 acres, against 320 for a half-section. Second, Third and Fourth Streets run east–west through it alongside Hawthorne, Bunell and Edgemont Streets and Baker Place; Richey, Terra Alta, Dodge, Jones and Palo Verde Boulevards, Chrysler Drive, Holly Avenue and Camino Miramonte run north–south. Of the last 90 closings, 48 were detached houses, 24 condominiums and 18 townhouses, and the two tiers barely overlap. The detached houses run to a median year built of 1954, from 1945 to 2007, a median 1,826 square feet and a $487,500 median close at about $274 a square foot; the attached homes run to a median year built of 1980, from 1958 to 2019, a median 1,184 square feet, and median closes near $222,000 for condominiums and $282,500 for townhouses at about $214 and $189 a square foot. The price distribution shows the seam directly: thirteen of the 90 closed below $200,000 and thirteen above $600,000, but only two closed anywhere between $300,000 and $350,000, in a stretch whose neighbouring $50,000 bands hold thirteen and eleven. The $200,000 to $650,000 band this page publishes therefore spans two markets rather than describing one, and the average closed price near $393,000 against a $375,750 median is an average of both. Association terms follow the same line, and because the whole 90-record set was read rather than sampled this covers every closing in the window: 45 of the 48 detached closings carry no association name, no fee and no fee frequency, and the only three that do are the 2007 Indigo Modern lofts on Third Street, one of them recorded at $400 a month. On the attached side 23 of the 24 condominium closings and 17 of the 18 townhouse closings carry association terms, with recorded monthly fees running $130 to $500 on condominiums and $125 to $400 on townhouses. Pima County's recorded plats show where the two tiers came from. Speedway View Addition, 167 lots in five blocks recorded in June 1920, covers the east half, and Encanto Park, 230 lots in sixteen blocks recorded in April 1947, covers the middle — which is why listing agents still call this ground Encanto Park, and it is a different place from El Encanto Estates, the 1928 subdivision immediately south across Fifth Street. Virginia Heights, Speedway Place, Conquistador Heights, Encanto Vista and Bunell Addition fill the rest between 1923 and 1952. Then, from 1973 to 1985, seventeen more plats were recorded on those same streets, thirteen of them named as condominiums or townhomes — among them Encanto Place Townhomes in 1978, El Presidio Condos in 1979, Continental Palms and Bilmar Terrace North in 1981 and Conquistador Heights Condos in 1985. Nine more followed between 1997 and 2022, including Indigo Modern on Third Street, a loft development designed by Rob Paulus Architects and completed in 2007. Independent agents across the record describe the same detached stock: mid-century brick ranch houses in wire-cut and painted brick, burnt adobe, and a 1949 Spanish Colonial with smooth plastered walls and a mortared mission tile roof, with beamed and coved ceilings, stained and integral-colour concrete floors, wood-burning fireplaces, enclosed Arizona rooms, deep carports and detached one-car garages, circular and brick-paver driveways, walled back gardens under mature shade and citrus trees, and Santa Catalina Mountain views from the north-facing lots. Lots on the pre-2000 detached houses run about 0.13 to 0.86 acre with a median near 0.22, and living areas across the whole record run from 599 to 3,937 square feet. Miramonte Park, a City of Tucson mini park of about six-tenths of an acre on North Richey Boulevard, stands inside the neighborhood, and Himmel Park, a City community park of about 25 acres, is roughly a mile west. Third Street crosses the full width of the neighborhood, from Country Club Road to Alvernon Way, as the 3rd Street–University Bike Boulevard, which Pima County's regional bicycle route network carries with shared-lane markings. Everyday retail is on the Speedway Boulevard corridor along the north edge and the Broadway Boulevard corridor south of Fifth Street, with El Con Center about three-quarters of a mile south, Reid Park about 1.5 miles south, Banner – University Medical Center Tucson about 1.7 miles west-north-west, the University of Arizona campus about two miles west, Tucson Medical Center about 2.6 miles north-east and downtown Tucson about 3.4 miles west. Homes are in the Tucson Unified School District, and two elementary attendance areas cross the boundary — Sam Hughes Elementary covering the west side and Peter Howell Elementary the east — with Mansfeld Middle Magnet School and Tucson Magnet High School also returned as assigned; all four stand outside the neighborhood, so confirm attendance by address. The Miramonte Neighborhood Association has been registered with the City of Tucson since February 1992 and is listed as active in Ward 6.

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