Orange County
California Community Real Estate Information- covering all of
the real estate communities within Orange County, the Directory
features top real estate agents.
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Orange County real estate
prices are continuing their steep ascent. The median home price in
Orange County reached a record $485,000 in March, up 23 percent from a
year ago, according to numbers released Friday by market tracker
DataQuick.
The Orange County median price is the highest in Southern California,
as it has been historically. No. 2 is Ventura County, at $461,000. The
Orange County figure is more than twice the median for San Bernardino
County.
Prices are rising throughout the region. In every Southern California
county the median home price reached a record last month.
Orange County real estate prices fastest rising - the annual
appreciation rate is 29 percent in Los Angeles County and 33 percent
in Orange County.
Orange County's greatest strength is its chameleon like nature.
Just when you think you have it figured out, you stumble across a
vision of Southern California that is nothing like what you imagined.
In one corner of the county is the bustling community of Little
Saigon, home to the largest concentration of Vietnamese Americans in
the United States. In another is rustic Silverado Canyon, where
stagecoach service ran over a hundred years ago and where today you'll
find residents riding their horses to the post office, the general
store, or Silverado Cafe. Each feels a world away from the other, yet
both are within the same county lines and just minutes from one of the
state's busiest freeways.
Most of the people who live in Orange County seem to be from
somewhere else. Ask them why they came here and they'll likely mention
the balmy weather or job opportunities. But it's really more than
that. They have settled here to be close to places as captivating as
Mission San Juan Capistrano or the unusually rich abundance of
world-class theaters, and because of the easy access to such popular
destinations as Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm. People settle here
because of the little things, too. Like being able to have a barbecue
on the beach on New Year's Day, for instance, or buying handmade corn
tortillas, still hot, from a local taqueria near the Artists Village
in downtown Santa Ana. It's knowing that you can marvel at the sight
of more than 150 illuminated boats during Newport Beach's Christmas
boat parade, skin-dive in kelp beds rich with sea life off Doheny
State Beach, or search for a bronze Neptune statuette at the Festival
of Arts in Laguna Beach, the West Coast's oldest and best-known
outdoor fine art exhibit-all on the same day.
Children love Orange County, of course, in no small part because
it's home to Mickey and Minnie. But there's plenty here for adults,
too. You can learn to surf, or simply admire the exhibits at the
International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach. Explore Tucker
Wildlife Sanctuary, a relatively untouched wilderness within the
400-square-mile Cleveland National Forest. Or just kick back and fish
for halibut off one of the county's many public piers. It's all part
of ever-changing Orange County.
