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Las Palmas Hermosa has come a long way from its sheep ranching roots
At the northern end of Southern California’s Orange County, rural-suburban Las Palmas Hermosa was where the modern-day city of Fullerton began – on 2,500 acres of sheep ranching and citrus farmland. “In the center of town here, you’ll still find the homestead of the once powerful Bastanchury family, the namesake of local Bastanchury Road,” says Realtor Melissa Yeo of Hawk & Dove Real Estate Group, “though the land around it has long since been redeveloped as housing, in both gated and ungated communities. You’ll find smaller homes in the Hermosa Flats, while in the Hermosa Heights area up near and above the Fullerton Golf Course, you’ll see mostly large midcentury ranch-style homes, with some two-story models." Yeo continues, “This was the first neighborhood in Fullerton to have buried electrical lines, and unlike most residential parts of the city, it has both streetlights and sidewalks.”
Large lots in Hermosa Heights and several gated communities
In the Hermosa Heights area, you’ll find large midcentury ranch-style homes, sometimes fashioned like Spanish haciendas with clay-tiled roofs, on lots of up to a half-acre; with four or five bedrooms, three baths and a three-car garage, as well as an upgraded kitchen and a swimming pool, these homes range from $1.2 million to $2.3 million. By the golf course, the gated Fairway Village community has 24/7 security for its late 1970s to early ‘80s Spanish-style homes with up to four bedrooms and three baths, ranging from $880,000 to $1.1 million.
In the Hermosa Flats, the late 1980s Sorrento Hills gated community has Spanish- and Craftsman-style homes with larger layouts and three-car garages that go for about $1.5 million; while along North La Brea Boulevard, '70s apartment-style condos average $550,000 for a 970-square-foot unit with two bedrooms and one bath. Throughout the neighborhood, the scenery vibes tranquil and rural, with hills, foothills and the occasional grove of eucalyptus and pepper trees providing some shade. Streets and cul-de-sacs are safe and generally quiet (close to the 90 you'll hear some traffic noise), lined with well-manicured yards and often studded with tall skinny palm trees. You'll see your neighbors out walking their dogs and themselves, as well as biking all over — and taking the time to wave hello.
Fullerton Sports Complex and other area green spaces
Sprawling more than 200 acres throughout the neighborhood, the public Brea Dam Recreational Area includes parks, trails and the campus of Providence St. Jude Medical Center. Your favorite kids will enjoy the modern, colorful playground and three spectator-friendly baseball fields at the 17-acre Fullerton Sports Complex; where on summertime Wednesday nights, you can gather with your neighbors to enjoy free concerts by area acts. From here you can pick up the half-mile, gently graded Lost Trail, which dead-ends at the Brea Dam Trail; you can follow the latter to the 18-hole, public golf course, the Fullerton Tennis Center and the picnic areas at Brea Dam Park. If you’d like to pedal your way around Fullerton, don your helmet and hit the well-paved Puente Bike Trail.
Family-run restaurants and national chains serve Las Palmas Hermosa
You can do your local errands at two small shopping centers. Start your day with a pour-over coffee or nitro cold brew from an outpost of Bodhi Leaf Coffee Traders, an Orange County chain; fuel the afternoon with tacos, enchiladas or burritos from cheerful, family-owned Harbor Mexican Café; and for dinner, tuck into carpaccios and cut rolls at Ginza Sushi or house-made pasta at family-run Luigi’s D’Italia. You can fill up your grocery cart at the local Stater Bros., just northwest at Walmart or Aldi, and just south at Ralph’s. A few miles southwest you’ll find a bunch of bars and eateries in Fullerton’s lively downtown.
Fullerton schools offer arts, dual-language learning and an IB program
Many kids in Las Palmas Hermosa attend Fullerton public schools that are rated a just-above-average 6 out of 10 by Great Schools, including GATE-designated Hermosa Drive Elementary. Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts features a “Triple Threat Program” of dance, choir and theatre, as well as a Spanish Dual Language track; while Fullerton Union High offers a strong speech and debate team and the International Baccalaureate diploma, earning a 9 out of 10 for its students’ college readiness.
Access to travel via state Route 90
Right on state Route 90, Las Palmas Hermosa gives you easy access to the 39, the 57 and the 5 freeway. Downtown Los Angeles is 25 miles north, and you’re roughly 20 miles from both Irvine and Huntington Beach.
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On average, homes in Las Palmas Hermosa, Fullerton sell after 28 days on the market compared to the national average of 52 days. The median sale price for homes in Las Palmas Hermosa, Fullerton over the last 12 months is $1,287,000, up 13% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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