Mountain First Avenue Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$336,000

Price range

$250K – $450K

School district

Amphitheater USD (Keeling or Rio Vista, Amphitheater Middle, Amphitheater High)

Approximate population

~2,000

Approximate number of homes

~950 homes

What defines this area

• A $320,000 median across 45 detached closings in three years
• Mitchell Park, 1.6 acres, inside the boundary
• Nine subdivisions platted between 1929 and 1964
• Smaller houses closing at a higher price per square foot
• Median year built between 1952 and 1956 in every price band
• Two-bedroom-or-smaller houses at a $282,000 median, about 1,010 sq ft
• Three-bedroom-or-larger houses at a $355,000 median, 1,437 sq ft
• No condominium or townhouse closings in the record
• Seven of 45 closed over asking; 14 took a price reduction
• R-2 or R-1 zoning on 505 of 575 county parcels
• Lots of about a sixth of an acre
• First Avenue, Grant Road, Mountain Avenue and Glenn Street as edges
• Annexed into the City of Tucson by 1953, Ward 3
• FEMA Zone X at all 119 sample points
• Outside every Pima County airport overlay
• Amphitheater Middle and High; Keeling or Rio Vista Elementary
• All 642 address points in ZIP code 85719

About Mountain First Avenue

Mountain First Avenue is about a quarter of a square mile of north-central Tucson between First Avenue and Mountain Avenue, from Grant Road north to Glenn Street, with the small Mitchell Park inside it. Every closing here was a detached house, the median year built is the same mid-1950s figure in every price band, and the smaller houses close at the higher price per square foot. Over the three years to October 2026 there were 45 Residential closings inside this boundary, all of them detached houses, with no townhouse or condominium. They closed between $215,000 and $545,000, around a median of $320,000 and an average of $335,904. Sorted into six price bands, the median year built barely moves: 1952 to 1956 in every band, from the two closings under $250,000 to the one at $450,000 or more. Floor area and price per square foot move instead, and not in step. The 13 closings between $300,000 and $350,000 have the smallest median size in the record, about 1,080 square feet, and the highest median price per square foot, $284.90; the ten between $350,000 and $400,000 run to about 1,580 square feet at $232.88, and the seven between $400,000 and $450,000 to about 1,710 at $257.61. Split by bedrooms, the 12 houses with two bedrooms or fewer closed at a median of $282,000 for about 1,010 square feet — $276.76 per square foot, built to a median of 1946 — and the 33 with three or more at a median of $355,000 for 1,437 square feet, $246.27 per square foot, built to a median of 1956. So the smaller, older houses are the cheaper ones to buy and the dearer ones per square foot, and a valuation here works from comparable sales of the same size and bedroom count rather than from a neighborhood price per square foot. These are medians over groups, not paired sales. The rest of the record: living area 918 to 2,538 square feet to a median of 1,288, year built 1935 to 2007 to a median of 1955, a median $257.61 per square foot, list prices $222,000 to $550,000 to a $329,000 median, and a 0.98 sale-to-list ratio. Seven of the 45 closed above their asking price and 14 took at least one price reduction. Days on market rest on 40 of the 45 records, to a median of 18 against 25 cumulative; listing to contract and listing to close rest on all 45, to medians of 33 and 45 days. The range printed at the top of this page holds 42 of the 45 closings; two closed below $250,000 and one at $545,000. Six more closings over the same three years were recorded as residential income property and are not among the 45. These are closed sales, not homes currently for sale. The land record matches. Pima County counts 575 parcels wholly inside the line, every one carrying the county's TUCSON jurisdiction code; 459 carry a single-family residential use code and 62 a multiple-residential code, most of those duplexes. The median lot under a single-family use code is about a sixth of an acre. The City of Tucson's R-2 residence zone covers 332 of the 575 parcels and R-1 another 173, with R-3 on 33; the 37 parcels zoned C-1 or C-3 commercial lie almost all along First Avenue and the Grant Road corner. Nine recorded subdivisions lie wholly inside the line, and between them they tell the age of the place: the Patterson Addition (14 lots, March 1929), the Brunhilda Addition (60 lots, January 1930), the Foster Addition (73 lots, November 1936) and Vista Hermosa Homesites (167 lots, January 1938) before the war; Ocotillo Park (40 lots, November 1951, and 36 more in January 1955), El Cerrito Estates (75 lots, October 1954) and the Dos Calles Addition (52 lots, April 1956) after it; and Grant Park, an 11-lot plat recorded in January 1964, last. A corner of the 1925 Monterey Addition reaches inside the line at its edge. Every edge checks against Pima County's own centrelines: First Avenue on the west, Grant Road on the south, Mountain Avenue on the east and Glenn Street on the north. Inside the line is about 167 acres, and all 642 official address points inside it are in ZIP code 85719. The whole boundary is inside the City of Tucson: three annexation ordinances cover all 119 interior sample points — ordinance 1410, effective November 1953, at 110 of them, ordinance 1023 of July 1945 at six and ordinance 1374 of July 1953 at three — with no deannexation. All 119 fall in Ward 3. The City-registered Mountain First Avenue neighborhood association, registered in January 1998 and carrying the names of the two avenues on its west and east edges, is returned at 118 of the 119 sample points. Homeowners associations are a separate question. Pima County publishes no register of them, so whether a recorded declaration runs with a particular lot is answered by the title work and by nothing on this page. Read the title commitment and any resale disclosure before writing an offer. FEMA's flood map returns Zone X at all 119 interior sample points. A sample point is not a flood determination for any particular house. None of Pima County's airport overlay layers — the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base vicinity, its noise control districts and its Air Installation Compatible Use Zones, or the Tucson Airport Authority's avigation easement and disclosure area — reaches any of the 119 points. Mitchell Park, a 1.6-acre City of Tucson park at 1100 East Mitchell Street, lies wholly inside the boundary. The City lists benches, a drinking fountain, fitness stations, grills, a Little Free Library, picnic tables, a playground, volleyball courts and water harvesting, and no ramada or restroom. Schools are Amphitheater Unified throughout. Pima County's attendance-area layer returns Amphitheater Middle School at 315 East Prince Road and Amphitheater High School at 125 West Yavapai Road at every sample point off the Grant Road edge. The elementary assignment is split at Park Avenue: Keeling Elementary School at 2837 North Los Altos Avenue to the west, and Rio Vista Elementary School at 1351 East Limberlost Drive to the east. LiveBy's assignment query still names Holaway Elementary, a school the Amphitheater Governing Board voted in January 2026 to close at the end of the 2025–2026 school year, sending its students to Rio Vista; the county's map, revised in June 2026, names Rio Vista. No grade range is stated here, and assignments are drawn by address and change, so confirm a specific address with the district. Keeling, which has its own page here, lies west across First Avenue; Hedrick Acres lies north across Glenn Street, and Jefferson Park south-east across Grant Road.

Mountain First Avenue is an urban neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the central side of metro Tucson, Arizona, served by Amphitheater USD (Keeling or Rio Vista, Amphitheater Middle, Amphitheater High). Homes trade in the $250K – $450K range, with an average sale price of $336,000 across roughly 950 homes and a population of about 2,000. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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