Stella Mann Homes for Sale — Tucson, AZ

Key facts

Jurisdiction

Tucson, Arizona — incorporated city, Pima County

Average sale price

$260,000

Price range

$200K – $400K

School district

TUSD (Erickson Elementary, Secrist Middle, Palo Verde High Magnet)

Approximate population

~5,600

Approximate number of homes

~2,500 homes

What defines this area

• Escalante Park and Vista del Prado Park, both inside the boundary
• Erickson Elementary School inside the boundary
• A paved accessible path through Vista del Prado Park
• The Aviation Greenway running the length of the south edge
• Inside the state disclosure area around Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
• No mapped Davis-Monthan noise district over any of it
• Golf Links Road north, Kolb Road east, Escalante Road south
• Homes built 1960-1979 and nothing outside those twenty years
• Living areas 818-2,616 sq ft, median 1,187
• Thirty-six townhouses among 107 recent closings
• Townhouses built between 1971 and 1973, every one of them
• Vista del Prado, Warwick Village and Escalante Heights
• Eight of the nine plats here recorded between 1960 and 1972
• Yukon, Anchorage, Atlin, Edmonton, Montreal, Quebec and Dawson streets
• Alamo Wash crossing the middle in a lined channel
• Wholly inside the City of Tucson, entirely in Ward 4
• One ZIP code across all 1,605 county address points

About Stella Mann

Stella Mann is a 462-acre block on Tucson's east side, three-quarters of a mile wide and a mile deep, bounded by East Golf Links Road on the north, South Kolb Road on the east, East Escalante Road on the south and South Calle Polar on the west. The name is on two of the streets inside it: East Stella Road crosses the width of the block, South Mann Avenue runs down through it, and Erickson Elementary School stands at 6750 East Stella Road. The City of Tucson registers an active neighborhood association here under the same name, in Ward 4, and it is the only registered association covering any part of the interior — though its recorded outline stops roughly 450 to 870 feet short of Golf Links Road, leaving the commercial frontage along that street outside it. One thing to look into before making an offer here. Arizona law draws a territory in the vicinity of a military airport around Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, measured out from the runway, and this whole block sits inside it — every vertex of the boundary and every interior point tested falls within the polygon Pima County publishes for it. What that means in a transaction is a written notice: a seller of residential real estate inside that territory has to give the buyer one before title transfers, unless the same disclosure was already made in a public report for the property. Two things are worth being precise about. The map the statute points at is the one the Arizona State Land Department prepares, not the county's; the county layer is its own rendering of the statutory description, drawn from the text and last reconciled in 2011 against the Arizona Department of Real Estate's wording. And the disclosure is a notice about where a property is, not a finding about any particular house. The base is genuinely next door. Its mapped boundary runs the full width of this block's south edge, and the Escalante Road corridor is the whole of what lies between the two lines — about 70 feet at the widest. The other half of that picture is worth knowing too. None of the county's mapped Davis-Monthan noise control districts, Air Installations Compatible Use Zones, approach-departure corridors or airport environs overlay zones reaches any part of this boundary. The statutory territory is drawn by distance from the runway. The noise and accident-potential mapping is drawn from flight operations, and none of it lands here. Both are worth confirming for a specific address rather than for the block. What sells here is 1960s and 1970s housing, and the record is unusually tight about it. Every one of the 107 closings recorded inside this boundary over the last three years was built between 1960 and 1979, to a median year of 1971, with nothing on either side of those twenty years. They ran $150,000 to $395,000 against a $260,000 median and a $260,043 average, on a $263,000 list median, and took a median 19 days on market against 27 counting relists, at a sale-to-list ratio of 0.99. Thirty-six of the 107 closed above asking and 42 took a price reduction first. Living areas ran 818 to 2,616 square feet with a 1,187-square-foot median, and the median price per square foot was $212.58. A third of that market is attached, which is a larger share than anywhere else this site covers — a quarter of the sales at Cherry Avenue on the south side, and eight percent at Harrison East-South out east. Thirty-six of the 107 sales here were townhouses and 71 were detached houses; not one was a condominium. The two move differently. The townhouses closed at a $231,000 median on 1,115 square feet, in a median nine and a half days, at a sale-to-list ratio of 1.00, with 17 of the 36 closing above asking. The detached houses closed at $270,000 on 1,256 square feet and took a median 24 and a half days. Detached is also the dearer ground by the foot here — $216.67 against $209.58, a seven-dollar gap — which is the reverse of the same comparison at Cherry Avenue. Every one of the 36 townhouses was built between 1971 and 1973. Worth knowing about the bottom of this market, because the obvious reading of it is wrong. Five of the 107 sales closed under $200,000, and they were not smaller houses: their median living area was 1,197 square feet, a little above the boundary-wide median. What set them apart was the rate per foot — a $133.67 median against $212.46, $215.78 and $229.50 in the three price bands above them. At this end of this neighborhood you are buying condition rather than square footage, which is a different inspection and a different repair budget. That is a pattern across five sales and says nothing about any particular house. The detached and attached halves are laid out as separate tracts rather than mixed through the streets. Vista del Prado holds 768 of the detached parcels, across seven filings recorded between 1964 and 1970; Warwick Village and Warwick Village Addition hold another 289, recorded in 1960 and 1971; and Escalante Heights is the attached ground — all but seven of the 467 attached-unit parcels carry an Escalante Heights legal description, platted in 1971 and 1972 and resubdivided afterwards. The county files those 467 under one code that covers condominiums, townhouses, row and patio homes together, which is why its count is so much larger than the 36 townhouse sales: the code describes what is recorded against the parcel, not how many of them changed hands. Nine plats lie wholly inside the boundary and eight of the nine were recorded between November 1960 and August 1972; the ninth is a 2023 commercial plat of eight lots at the Kolb and Golf Links corner. Escalante Heights is also where the street names change. Yukon, Anchorage, Atlin, Edmonton, Montreal, Quebec and Dawson all run through the attached tract, off South Calle Polar along the western edge — a far-north naming run in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, and the quickest way to tell on a map which tract you are standing in. Zoning here says what the ground may hold, not what was built on it. Of the 1,580 parcels wholly inside the boundary, 750 are in R-2 and 702 in R-1, with 110 in O-3, 16 in C-2 and one each in C-1 and RX-1; every one of them is City of Tucson. R-2 covers both kinds of housing — 460 of the 467 attached-unit parcels and 281 detached ones — so the zone will not tell you which you are looking at, and most of this housing predates the current code in any case. Public ground here is two parks and a greenway. Escalante Park, at 6900 East Nicaragua Drive, and Vista del Prado Park, at 3250 South Jessica Avenue, both sit wholly inside the boundary; the City lists them at 5.3 and 8.6 acres and classes both as neighborhood parks in Ward 4. Escalante Park has benches, grills, horseshoe pits, a multi-purpose field, picnic tables, a playground and a ramada, and no restrooms. Vista del Prado carries roughly 2,500 feet of ten-foot paved path, recorded as accessible and marked for walking and bicycles. Along the south edge runs the paved Golf Links-Aviation Path, which Pima County maps as the Aviation Greenway: its eastern end is the Kolb and Escalante corner of this block, and from there it runs back across the city toward downtown Tucson. Alamo Wash crosses the ground channelized — Pima County records its banks as soil cement and carries a 50-foot setback on it — and three unnamed reaches cross at 25-foot setbacks. Twenty-three parcels inside are City of Tucson property: seven held by Parks, two by Tucson Water and fourteen by the Housing and Community Development department. No homeowners association holds mapped common ground anywhere inside the boundary, which is worth confirming against the title commitment for any attached unit. School assignment is Tucson Unified and it does not split. All 24 interior points tested return the same three campuses: Erickson Elementary, which stands inside the boundary, then Secrist Middle School and Palo Verde High Magnet School. One thing that surprises people: Palo Verde is an 8-12 campus on the federal school directory for the current year, so the high school assignment here starts in eighth grade. Pima County's attendance layer gives it 9-12, and nothing else found supports that. Assignments are drawn by address and they change, so confirm the assignment for a specific address with the district before relying on it. For orientation, the whole block is in ZIP 85730 and in Ward 4, and measured from its edge: Pima Community College's East Campus is a mile and a half away, Park Place Mall a mile and three-quarters, El Con Mall four miles, the University of Arizona six, Tucson International Airport a little over six, and the nearest Interstate 10 ramp three and a quarter.

Stella Mann is an affordable neighborhood in the City of Tucson, on the southeast side of metro Tucson, Arizona, served by TUSD (Erickson Elementary, Secrist Middle, Palo Verde High Magnet). Homes trade in the $200K – $400K range, with an average sale price of $260,000 across roughly 2,500 homes and a population of about 5,600. Kyle Berglund, REALTOR® at Tierra Antigua Realty, represents buyers and sellers here — call (520) 250-8904.

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