San Clemente Real Estate News: Homes and Condos

Are you looking to bring your kid to somewhere in South Orange County for a fun day full of Easter related activities? Many cities are putting together events this Saturday, and depending on if you want to be by the beach or inland, here's some of our yearly favorites:

San Clemente Egg Hunt: This is a great event as it is in the newer Vista Hermosa Sports Park. Breakfast sale, activities, visit from Easter Bunnny and more, with many games to enjoy and of course, an egg hunt up to 10 years old. From 8:30am ( breakfast starts at 7:30am) until 12:00pm.

Dana Point Egg Hunt: Enjoy a morning of spring time fun at our Egg Hunts. The city offers two locations - Pines Park, 34941 Camino Capistrano and Sea Canyon Park, 33093 Santiago Drive. Activities begin at 9:00am…

If you are looking for a family friendly community in South Orange County, with top of the line amenities, Ladera Ranch and Talega have it. These two communities have a lot in common as far as activities, lots of kids, and even types of homes. We often get asked the same question: which one is better? Ladera Ranch or Talega?  Here's some highlights of the communities as far as:

MELLO ROOS: ok, so no one is a winner. Both communities have mello-roos and the amounts paid by the home owners differ even within the same communities (there's different factors involved). But let's just say they both have them, and both are high. 

Amenities: Both Ladera Ranch and Talega have pools, neighborhood parks and community activities. Ladera Ranch does have more…

We often get this question. What is Mello- roos? Is it forever? What does it cover? Why some houses have it and some don't? Is it a percentage?

Let start by explaining what Mello Roos is. 

Mello Roos is a special 'bond' used to finance the cost of public improvements and infrastructure in a newer area, like roads, schools, parks, fire stations etc needed to support the new community. A Mello-Roos District is an area where this special property tax on real estate, in addition to the normal property tax, is imposed on those home owners. The tax paid is used to make the payments of principal and interest on the bonds. Talega and Ladera Ranch are very similar when it comes to the mello-roos. Just doing a drive around you'll notice the similarities:…

And so it opened.  The almost $32 million new San Clemente Sports Park, the Vista Hermosa Sports Park is a dream come true. This shouldn't be called a park, as it is more than that. It's an amazing sports complex, with an incredible aquatics center, universal access playground, three baseball fields, two soccer fields, a football field and a multipurpose field within its 45 acres.

Everything has being finished with attention to details.  Hundreds of kids were delighted in the playground, the Courtney's SandCastle's sailing-ship structure, its castle structure or in the aquatic play structure in the fun pool, with water slides.

A couple of features of the park we were impressed by:

Courtney's Sandcastle's: is a very special playground: it…

The highly anticipated opening of the new Sports Park in San Clemente, recently named Vista Hermosa Park, has been set to this coming February 25th.

This new $33 million Sports Park had an earlier announced date that had to be reset due to delays completing an aquatics center and slower-than-expected maturing of the grass on baseball fields.

The opening events are set for this Saturday February 25th from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., including a ribbon cutting at 9 a.m.

The park includes three baseball fields, two soccer fields, a multipurpose field, a football field and an aquatics center with a 50-meter competition pool and a 25-meter recreational pool. All the facilities are lighted for evening use.

For our real estate matters, these are great…

This is extremely cool as it would be the first one of its kind in the entire world, coming to our beautiful new San Clemente Vista Hermosa Park.

While San Clemente prepares to open the $33 million sports park ( which was set to open January 28th and now just got delayed, because the baseball field grass isn’t ready), there's just one more great feature that entrepreneurs are working on, and although the design is still not ready to be deployed, a  planned 75,000 gallon surfing wave pool unlike any other will come to the park, together with an 18-hole miniature golf course and a restaurant.

Surf N Turf San Clemente will be the name for this development, and the wave pool will feature sloping walls and sheets of gushing water that can be…

Great news for San Clemente residents! The new sports park that has been long awaited for, is scheduled to open this coming January 28th, and will be known as 'Vista Hermosa Sports Park'.

Vista Hermosa Sports Park means "beautiful view" in Spanish, and it identifies the location of the park off Vista Hermosa and La Pata Avenue. Vista Hermosa has an exit of the 5 Freeway, which makes the park have an easy access to visitors and sports teams.

The park, which the city spent $33 million into building it consists of 45 acres owned by the city of San Clemente and features:

• Three baseball fields: with natural turf outfields, these fields will be fully lighted fields year round to maximize play and include a shade area and seating for 100…