OC has 12 of top 100 most expensive home markets (Anaheim, Huntington Beach: house, neighborhood)

[LuvSouthOC]

12 O.C. cities rank among nation's 100 priciest for homes. Which ones made the list? - The Orange County Register

Newport, at 2.3m, gets the distinction of being number 2 nationwide. Not bad considering how small OC is!

Other Orange County markets in the Top 100:

• San Clemente ranked 27th at $990,917 – vs. No. 52 last year.

• Irvine ranked 30th at $978,209 – No. 29 last year.

• Huntington Beach ranked 33rd at $961,985 – No. 49 last year.

• Yorba Linda ranked 41st at $924,173 – No. 73 last year.

• Laguna Niguel ranked 44th at $905,619 – No. 38 last year.

• Anaheim Hills ranked 60th at $800,773 – No. 123 last year.

• Rancho Santa Margarita ranked 65th at $792,399 – No. 119 last year.

• Mission Viejo ranked 75th at $769,101 – No. 92 last year.

• Lake Forest ranked 90th at $739,944 – No. 96 last year.

• Tustin ranked 91st at $728,891 – No. 40 last year.

• Fullerton ranked 98th at $720,431 – No. 117 last year.

[pacific2]

I'm surprised that Laguna Beach and Dana Point are not on the list. Maybe they only considered cities over a certain population?

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by pacific2

I'm surprised that Laguna Beach and Dana Point are not on the list. Maybe they only considered cities over a certain population?

Good point. That is odd. I cannot explain it.

[Fast Cat]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

Not bad considering how small OC is!

OC is not that small. It is the 6th most populous county in the nation.

[Fast Cat]

Originally Posted by pacific2

I'm surprised that Laguna Beach and Dana Point are not on the list. Maybe they only considered cities over a certain population?

That was the conclusion that I came too as well, that smaller cities were excluded. The cutoff maybe right around a population of 50K. Villa Park, Laguna Hills, and San Juan Capristrano were also not on the list.

[Hemlock140]

Our little city is #72, it's surprising that home prices here are higher than 4 of the OC cities.

[Justabystander]

Originally Posted by Fast Cat

That was the conclusion that I came too as well, that smaller cities were excluded. The cutoff maybe right around a population of 50K. Villa Park, Laguna Hills, and San Juan Capristrano were also not on the list.

50k is not the cutoff,since my town in Illinois is 16K and made the top 100. What is not apparent on this list is that many of the east and midwest towns have larger homes with heftier pricetags than just your average 4 bedroom, 2 bath home that is the typical house here; using my town as an example, there are many larger homes with pricetags between $4M and $7M that would not affect a survey like this. OC has alot of very expensive tract homes which would make towns go on this list, particularly in towns like Irvine, but would keep big ticket towns off the list.

[goozer]

Originally Posted by Fast Cat

That was the conclusion that I came too as well, that smaller cities were excluded. The cutoff maybe right around a population of 50K. Villa Park, Laguna Hills, and San Juan Capristrano were also not on the list.

Smaller cities like Laguna Beach excluded and yet Anaheim Hills is not even a city in its own right. It a subsection (almost a neighborhood really) of the City of Anaheim. Strange list.

[Fast Cat]

Originally Posted by Justabystander

50k is not the cutoff,since my town in Illinois is 16K and made the top 100.

Thanks for the clarification. I was making an incorrect assumption based on only OC communities. I also overlooked Anaheim Hills which the previous poster pointed out is not even a city.

[IGotMine]

I knew a man from oc who bought 100 acres of orange groves and sold the property for tract housing, there are opportunities to afford a home if you look hard enough even in these places.