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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 61. See more city of Rancho Santa Margarita real estate.
(all data current as of 5/19/2012)

$609,000 : 14 Conchito, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 3,996 sqft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 2

Days on market: 3
$760,000 : 26 Las Fieras, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,000 sq ft

Lot size: 6,466 sqft

Year built: 1998

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 3
$624,900 : 24 Saltillo, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,600 sq ft

Lot size: 5,066 sqft

Year built: 1994

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 3
$609,000 : 2 Saint Pierre, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,800 sq ft

Lot size: 6,579 sqft

Year built: 1995

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 4
$779,900 : 32919 Brookseed Dr, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,514 sq ft

Lot size: 10,674 sqft

Year built: 1993

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 4
$699,000 : 2 Columbine, Rancho Santa Margarita

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,310 sq ft

Lot size: 10,000 sqft

Year built: 1994

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 5
$925,000 : 32 Saratoga, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 3,600 sq ft

Lot size: 9,050 sqft

Year built: 1996

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 6
$695,000 : 59 Calle Gazapo, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,500 sq ft

Lot size: 8,110 sqft

Year built: 1998

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 10
$720,000 : 37 Edelweiss, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,650 sq ft

Lot size: 5,272 sqft

Year built: 1998

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 10
$769,900 : 21221 Pinebluff Dr, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,000 sq ft

Lot size: 12,952 sqft

Year built: 1991

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 10
$649,000 : 25 Muirfield, Rancho Santa Margarita

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,274 sq ft

Lot size: 7,800 sqft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 10
$649,000 : 36 Greenspring, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,900 sq ft

Lot size: 5,255 sqft

Year built: 1994

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 11
$645,000 : 12 Reata, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 1 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 2,261 sq ft

Lot size: 4,631 sqft

Year built: 1992

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 12
$650,000 : 5 Bootstrap Ct, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,100 sq ft

Lot size: 5,755 sqft

Year built: 1996

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 12
$649,900 : 20 El Corzo, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,686 sq ft

Lot size: 6,037 sqft

Year built: 1997

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 12
$635,000 : 12 Las Balas, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,800 sq ft

Lot size: 4,632 sqft

Year built: 1998

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 12
$649,000 : 20722 Shadow Rock Ln, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,515 sq ft

Lot size: 5,541 sqft

Year built: 1991

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 13
$749,000 : 28 Charca, Rancho Santa Margarita

4 beds, 1 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 2,980 sq ft

Lot size: 7,453 sqft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 16
$800,000 : 9 Via Taliana, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,416 sq ft

Lot size: 8,546 sqft

Year built: 1996

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 16
$669,000 : 8 Via Belmonte, Rancho Santa Margarita

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,033 sq ft

Year built: 1996

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 16

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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 127. See more city of Coto De Caza real estate.
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$8,995,000 : 34 Cambridge Court Ct, Coto De Caza

6 beds, 8 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 11,618 sq ft

Lot size: 3.64 ac

Year built: 2005

Parking spots: 10

Days on market: 3
$1,640,000 : 8 Marble Creek Lane, Coto De Caza

7 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,200 sq ft

Lot size: 14,897 sqft

Year built: 2001

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 3
$1,925,000 : 25 Via Terracaleta, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,710 sq ft

Lot size: 40,000 sqft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 3
$950,000 : 7 Windflower, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 3 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 3,777 sq ft

Lot size: 20,000 sqft

Year built: 1988

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 4
$599,000 : 31715 Via Pato, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,918 sq ft

Lot size: 6,174 sqft

Year built: 1977

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 4
$3,249,000 : 31152 Via Colinas, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 6 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 9,631 sq ft

Lot size: 42,711 sqft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 5
$2,999,999 : 31232 Via Colinas, Coto De Caza

6 beds, 6 full, 4 part baths

Home size: 10,548 sq ft

Lot size: 1.57 ac

Year built: 2007

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 10
$4,999,999 : 6 Palma Valley, Coto De Caza

8 beds, 8 full, 4 part baths

Home size: 16,505 sq ft

Lot size: 2.45 ac

Year built: 2009

Parking spots: 10

Days on market: 10
$939,000 : 23646 Via Halcon, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,100 sq ft

Lot size: 6,000 sqft

Year built: 1998

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 10
$675,000 : 3 Pepper Ct, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 4 full baths

Home size: 2,930 sq ft

Lot size: 7,724 sqft

Year built: 1996

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 11
$1,750,000 : 2 Reflection LN, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,610 sq ft

Lot size: 15,200 sqft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 13
$989,000 : 16 Weber Ln, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 3 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 4,026 sq ft

Lot size: 5,791 sqft

Year built: 2002

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 13
$719,900 : MLS # S697135 in Coto De Caza

4 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,094 sq ft

Lot size: 15,000 sqft

Year built: 1989

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 13
$874,900 : 2 Pictor Ct, Coto De Caza

4 beds, 4 full baths

Home size: 3,005 sq ft

Lot size: 7,217 sqft

Year built: 1999

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 16
$1,399,000 : MLS # S696692 in Coto De Caza

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 5,000 sq ft

Lot size: 16,308 sqft

Year built: 1989

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 17
$1,399,000 : 3 Palomino, Coto De Caza

6 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,950 sq ft

Lot size: 1.01 ac

Year built: 1993

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 17
$569,000 : 24 Via Candelaria, Coto De Caza

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,100 sq ft

Lot size: 5,136 sqft

Year built: 1987

Parking spots: 4

Days on market: 17
$1,100,000 : 6 Lafayette Ln, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,000 sq ft

Lot size: 11,844 sqft

Year built: 1996

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 17
$1,329,000 : 15 Flax Ct, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 6 full baths

Home size: 5,610 sq ft

Lot size: 10,000 sqft

Year built: 2000

Parking spots: 12

Days on market: 18
$1,199,000 : 12 Salinger Ct, Coto De Caza

5 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,646 sq ft

Lot size: 9,048 sqft

Year built: 2001

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 19

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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 .

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(all data current as of 5/19/2012)

$1,095,000 : 26062 Waterwheel, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 1 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 2,900 sq ft

Lot size: 14,250 sqft

Year built: 1980

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 4
$1,390,000 : 27472 LOST TRAIL Dr, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,873 sq ft

Lot size: 33,344 sqft

Year built: 1987

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 4
$1,799,000 : 26152 Red Corral Rd, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 6 full baths

Home size: 4,100 sq ft

Lot size: 25,000 sqft

Year built: 1984

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 9
$1,495,000 : 25811 Prairestone, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,442 sq ft

Lot size: 32,200 sqft

Year built: 1979

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 19
$1,975,000 : 25411 Spotted Pony Ln, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 4 full baths

Home size: 5,500 sq ft

Lot size: 28,322 sqft

Year built: 1978

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 22
$1,460,000 : 25401 Coach Springs Ln, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,873 sq ft

Lot size: 20,000 sqft

Year built: 1987

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 25
$1,495,000 : 27766 Greenfield Drive, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,500 sq ft

Lot size: 1.03 ac

Year built: 1987

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 25
$2,295,000 : 25402 Spotted Pony Ln, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 1 full, 4 part baths

Home size: 4,700 sq ft

Lot size: 13,175 sqft

Year built: 1980

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 31
$735,000 : 25871 Hitching Rail Rd, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 3,438 sq ft

Lot size: 22,550 sqft

Year built: 1980

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 32
$1,395,000 : 27151 Hidden Trail Road, Laguna Hills

3 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 3,390 sq ft

Lot size: 23,052 sqft

Year built: 1979

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 33
$1,169,000 : 27752 Greenfield Dr, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,161 sq ft

Lot size: 39,039 sqft

Year built: 1990

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 33
$935,900 : 27361 Westridge, Laguna Hills

4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,422 sq ft

Lot size: 12,500 sqft

Year built: 1988

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 39
$2,049,000 : 25281 Derbyhill Dr, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 2 full, 3 part baths

Home size: 4,874 sq ft

Lot size: 20,000 sqft

Year built: 1989

Parking spots: 8

Days on market: 44
$2,850,000 : 25531 Lone Pine Cir, Laguna Hills

5 beds, 6 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 7,478 sq ft

Lot size: 1.49 ac

Year built: 1984

Parking spots: 6

Days on market: 47
$2,100,000 : 25732 Highplains Ter, Laguna Hills

6 beds, 5 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 6,809 sq ft

Lot size: 14,400 sqft

Year built: 1982

Parking spots: 9

Days on market: 51

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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).