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Rancho Santa Margarita Real Estate History

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Rancho Santa Margarita is a city in Orange County, California. One of Orange County’s youngest cities, Rancho Santa Margarita is a master planned community set upon rolling hills. Most neighborhoods in Rancho Santa Margarita are within various homeowners associations. The population was 47,214 at the 2000 census. Although it is named for Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, which was in San Diego County, the city limits fall within the borders of Rancho Mission Viejo. The city seal has the brands of Rancho Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita and Las Flores on the border, with artwork containing Santiago Peak in the background. The tower in the foreground symbolizes the Rancho Santa Margarita Lake Tower. Hughes Aircraft Company’s Microelectronic Systems Division and Connecting Devices Division moved to Rancho Santa Margarita in May 1988 from Irvine. In August 1992 the Hughes plant closed its facilities and moved the division to Carlsbad, California due to budget constraints in the aerospace industry. La Cañada Flintridge had the longest city name in California with 18 letters until January 1, 2000, when the title was ceded to Rancho Santa Margarita upon the latter’s incorporation. Rancho Santa Margarita is a city in Orange County, California. One of Orange County’s youngest cities, Rancho Santa Margarita is a master planned community set upon rolling hills. Most neighborhoods in Rancho Santa Margarita are within various homeowners associations. The population was 47,214 at the 2000 census. Although it is named for Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, which was in San Diego County, the city limits fall within the borders of Rancho Mission Viejo. The city seal has the brands of Rancho Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita and Las Flores on the border, with artwork containing Santiago Peak in the background. The tower in the foreground symbolizes the Rancho Santa Margarita Lake Tower. Hughes Aircraft Company’s Microelectronic Systems Division and Connecting Devices Division moved to Rancho Santa Margarita in May 1988 from Irvine. In August 1992 the Hughes plant closed its facilities and moved the division to Carlsbad, California due to budget constraints in the aerospace industry. La Cañada Flintridge had the longest city name in California with 18 letters until January 1, 2000, when the title was ceded to Rancho Santa Margarita upon the latter’s incorporation.

Showing properties 1 - 20 of 35. See more city of Rancho Santa Margarita real estate.
(all data current as of 2/6/2012)

$749,000 : 2 Summit Ct, Rancho Santa Margarita

6 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,050 sq ft

Lot size: 9,559 sq ft

Year built: 1997

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 6
$615,000 : 19 Via Tigra, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,217 sq ft

Lot size: 5,028 sq ft

Year built: 1995

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 7
$795,000 : 47 Golf View Dr, Rancho Santa Margarita

3 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,600 sq ft

Lot size: 7,000 sq ft

Year built: 1994

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 7
$725,000 : 10 Kingfisher Ct, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,347 sq ft

Lot size: 6,042 sq ft

Year built: 1998

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 9
$675,000 : 27 Via Anadeja, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,550 sq ft

Lot size: 4,700 sq ft

Year built: 1994

Parking spots: 5

Days on market: 10
$668,000 : 14 Lakeridge, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 3,220 sq ft

Lot size: 7,566 sq ft

Year built: 1993

Parking spots: 7

Days on market: 12
$649,900 : 8 Via Berrendo, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,686 sq ft

Lot size: 5,546 sq ft

Year built: 1997

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 15
$719,000 : 27 Banstead, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,750 sq ft

Lot size: 5,146 sq ft

Year built: 1995

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 23
$869,000 : 4 Sawmill, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,900 sq ft

Lot size: 7,500 sq ft

Year built: 1991

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 26
$799,900 : 21472 Silvertree Ln, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,160 sq ft

Lot size: 9,197 sq ft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 11

Days on market: 28
$729,900 : 11 Sembrado, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,228 sq ft

Lot size: 6,766 sq ft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 49
$629,000 : 32172 Rancho Cielo, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,000 sq ft

Lot size: 6,777 sq ft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 53
$650,000 : 11 Via Bandada, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,800 sq ft

Lot size: 9,630 sq ft

Year built: 1996

Parking spots: 3

Days on market: 57
$799,000 : 5 Coachman, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,000 sq ft

Lot size: 6,500 sq ft

Year built: 1991

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 63
$749,000 : 2 Snowdon, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,000 sq ft

Lot size: 8,656 sq ft

Year built: 1989

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 63
$865,000 : 32796 Rosemont Dr, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,500 sq ft

Lot size: 8,957 sq ft

Year built: 1995

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 67
$719,000 : 21791 Estrella Ln, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,347 sq ft

Lot size: 6,797 sq ft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 72
$615,000 : 11 Via Tigra, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,610 sq ft

Lot size: 5,700 sq ft

Year built: 1995

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 83
$609,000 : 10 Via Tigra, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,400 sq ft

Lot size: 5,283 sq ft

Year built: 1995

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 88
$609,000 : 2 Saint Pierre, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,800 sq ft

Lot size: 6,578 sq ft

Year built: 1995

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 97

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Unique Coto de Caza Homes

admin — Sat, 28 May 2011 06:00:59 +0000

Coto de Caza is a census-designated place (CDP) and guard-gated private community in Orange County, California. The population was 13,057 at the 2000 census.

The CDP is a suburban planned community of about 4,000 homes, and one of Orange County’s oldest and most expensive master planned communities. The project began in 1968, when it was envisioned as a hunting lodge, now the Lodge at Coto de Caza, and the community was completed in 2003. Around the town there are still undeveloped lots available for purchase. Currently there are two 18-hole golf courses, and two club houses, one considered the “old club” and the other the “new club.” The new club, the Coto De Caza Golf & Racquet Club, harbors the facilities of the two golf courses and adjacent ten tennis courts. The old club, located in the residential area known as “the Village,” was once home to tennis guru and teacher Vic Braden. The old club was also the home location for the Coto de Caza Youth Swim Team. The new club finished construction of the new Spa & Sports Club building in April 2008 that houses a new fitness center with state of the art StarTrac exercise equipment, a spa with many services, a snack bar with Starbuck’s coffee, and the Michael Chang tennis hall of fame and member lounge. The golf courses are both Robert Trent Jones Jr. design. The North course was rated the most difficult golf course in all of Orange County.

The community is the setting of the reality-based television show The Real Housewives of Orange County on Bravo.

Coto de Caza contains commercial endeavors, Lodge at Coto de Caza, The Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club, & The Coto de Caza General Store. Residents shop seven minutes away in Rancho Santa Margarita, ten minutes away in Mission Viejo, two minutes away in Las Flores, or four minutes away in Ladera Ranch. Most students in Coto de Caza reside in the Capistrano Unified School District and attend Wagon Wheel Elementary, Tijeras Creek Elementary, Las Flores Middle School, Tesoro High School, and Santa Margarita Catholic High School (not part of Capistrano Unified). The majority of the community is tract homes, with collections of customs on the outskirts off the main streets. Coto de Caza is twenty minutes from the Interstate 5 freeway and five minutes from the 241 toll road to Irvine and then Riverside County.

While some residents believe that “Coto de Caza” means “Preserve of the Hunt” in Portuguese, this is erroneous. Actually, “Coto de Caza” is Spanish for “Hunt Reserve” and implies that the reserve is private.

Showing properties 1 - 20 of 126. See more city of Coto De Caza real estate.
(all data current as of 2/6/2012)

$595,000 : 23392 Via Alondra, Coto De Caza

3 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 2,000 sq ft

Lot size: 6,000 sq ft

Year built: 1985

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 1
$1,414,000 : 114 Vela, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,000 sq ft

Lot size: 9,000 sq ft

Year built: 2002

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 4
$1,749,000 : 36 Panorama, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,000 sq ft

Lot size: 30,751 sq ft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 4
$734,900 : 31 Constellation WAY, Coto De Caza

3 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,450 sq ft

Lot size: 7,000 sq ft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 4
$465,900 : 78 Via Candelaria, Coto De Caza

3 beds, 2 full baths

Home size: 1,464 sq ft

Lot size: 5,459 sq ft

Year built: 1989

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 5
$1,389,900 : 46 Van Gogh Way, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,358 sq ft

Lot size: 23,700 sq ft

Year built: 1998

Parking spots: 14

Days on market: 5
$559,900 : 23481 Via Alondra, Coto De Caza

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,300 sq ft

Lot size: 6,000 sq ft

Year built: 1975

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 7
$1,899,900 : 15 Long View Rd, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,800 sq ft

Lot size: 10,954 sq ft

Year built: 2002

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 7
$1,500,000 : 1 Oak Canyon Trl, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,000 sq ft

Lot size: 1.11 ac

Year built: 2000

Parking spots: 7

Days on market: 8
$929,000 : 56 Vela Ct, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,600 sq ft

Lot size: 6,731 sq ft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 11
$749,000 : 2 Shadyside, Coto De Caza

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,315 sq ft

Lot size: 13,627 sq ft

Year built: 1988

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 11
$834,900 : 12 Brentano Dr, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,085 sq ft

Lot size: 14,470 sq ft

Year built: 1995

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 12
$1,189,000 : 31802 Via Perdiz, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 3 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 4,800 sq ft

Lot size: 6,000 sq ft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 13
$629,000 : 24341 Fairway Ln, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,300 sq ft

Lot size: 6,389 sq ft

Year built: 1987

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 13
$6,800,000 : 31781 Secoya WAY, Coto De Caza

6 beds, 7 full, 3 part baths

Home size: 10,000 sq ft

Lot size: 4.60 ac

Year built: 2003

Parking spots: 12

Days on market: 15
$1,199,000 : 18 Water Lily Way, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,400 sq ft

Lot size: 6,688 sq ft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 17
$999,000 : 18 Centaurus Way, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 4 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 4,300 sq ft

Lot size: 6,769 sq ft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 18
$1,399,000 : 18 Tortoise Shell, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,100 sq ft

Lot size: 9,691 sq ft

Year built: 2000

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 19
$1,012,800 : 18 Golden Poppy DR, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 3 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 4,231 sq ft

Lot size: 7,623 sq ft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 19
$1,199,000 : 14 MACKENZIE LN, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,120 sq ft

Lot size: 10,140 sq ft

Year built: 1997

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 20

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Nellie Gail’s Newest

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 06:12:43 +0000

The ranch sits on a promontory within the city and is a contrast to the higher density neighborhoods that surround it. It is one of the better-known upscale communities in the state and is not gated. Nellie Gail is a Planned Unit Development of 1407 lots on 1350 acres (5.5 km²) and consists of a mixture of tract and custom houses in an equestrian setting, with homes ranging from 1,700 to more than 10,000 square feet (160 to 930 m²). It is one of only a few communities left in Orange County zoned for large lots and equestrian trails, and joins only Anaheim Hills, Villa Park, and Orange Park Acres in their respective communities that limit the density of the homes in the county .

Showing properties 1 - 15 of 27. See more Nellie Gail (ng) tract real estate.
(all data current as of 2/6/2012)

$1,650,000 : 25392 Derbyhill Dr, Laguna Hills

6 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 7,130 sq ft

Lot size: 16,028 sq ft

Year built: 2003

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 7
$949,000 : 27361 Westridge Ln, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,422 sq ft

Lot size: 12,500 sq ft

Year built: 1988

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 8
$1,365,000 : 25211 Buckskin Dr, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 3 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 4,592 sq ft

Lot size: 19,000 sq ft

Year built: 1980

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 11
$1,795,000 : 25962 Nellie Gail Road, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,164 sq ft

Lot size: 25,620 sq ft

Year built: 1980

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 11
$1,095,000 : 26981 Rocking Horse Ln, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,636 sq ft

Lot size: 13,500 sq ft

Year built: 1977

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 11
$1,100,000 : 27641 Hidden Trail Rd, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,217 sq ft

Lot size: 15,171 sq ft

Year built: 1989

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 13
$1,045,000 : 25501 Gallup Cir, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,104 sq ft

Lot size: 13,416 sq ft

Year built: 1982

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 17
$1,299,000 : 27301 Westridge Ln, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,200 sq ft

Lot size: 15,000 sq ft

Year built: 1988

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 25
$950,000 : 27142 Hidden Trail, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,358 sq ft

Lot size: 13,650 sq ft

Year built: 1978

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 35
$899,000 : 27745 Hidden Trail Rd, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,500 sq ft

Lot size: 10,824 sq ft

Year built: 1988

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 49
$1,165,000 : 25502 Lone Pine Circle, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,218 sq ft

Lot size: 14,200 sq ft

Year built: 1985

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 60
$1,295,000 : 25731 Rapid Falls Rd, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,469 sq ft

Lot size: 24,000 sq ft

Year built: 1989

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 73
$1,595,000 : 25442 Nellie Gail Rd, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,002 sq ft

Lot size: 20,702 sq ft

Year built: 1985

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 78
$2,499,000 : 26492 Broken Bit Ln, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 5 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 6,623 sq ft

Lot size: 20,350 sq ft

Year built: 1981

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 85
$1,498,000 : 25621 Rapid Falls Rd, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,100 sq ft

Lot size: 22,293 sq ft

Year built: 1987

Parking spots: 12

Days on market: 100

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Rancho Santa Margarita Landscape and Recreation Corporation (SAMLARC)

admin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:50:15 +0000

SAMLARC is often referred to as the master association in Rancho Santa Margarita because other smaller sub associations fall within its membership and it encompasses the original footprint of the master planned community of Rancho Santa Margarita. SAMLARC comprises roughly 13,000 units and maintains most streetscapes, medians, parks and trails within the community. In total, SAMLARC runs and maintains 13 parks, 4 pools, a lagoon, a lake, and numerous trails within the community. One of SAMLARC’s most popular parks, Central Park located next to City Hall, contains a large amphitheater where a number of community events are held each year. Central Park is also home to an arena soccer rink that was converted from a roller hockey rink. SAMLARC also maintains a popular skate and dog park that are located within SAMLARC’s Canada Vista Park.^[2]

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RSM Climate

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:51:47 +0000

Rancho Santa Margarita, like most of coastal Southern California, generally has a Mediterranean climate. The name derives from its similarity to the climate of areas along the Mediterranean Sea. Summers are warm to hot, and winters are cool, rarely falling below freezing. Precipitation in Rancho Santa Margarita occurs predominantly during the winter months. The average January temperature in Rancho Santa Margarita is 56 °F (13 °C), while the average August temperature is 73 °F (23 °C).