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Rudy Flores · (619) 392-6714 · Personal Real Estate Liaison, Realtor® · CalDRE #02257808 · Responsible Broker CalDRE #01481919
A market-minded history: the plan, the pause and the planned communities that shaped the homes people buy today.
Housing markets have histories, and San Clemente's explains a lot about what buyers find today: a town planned around one architectural style, a long pause, and newer communities added around it.
Facts come from public sources and local histories and may be simplified.
Ole Hanson plans San Clemente as a Spanish Village by the Sea, with a design requirement for red tile roofs and white walls that still guides the look of many blocks.
The city incorporates in February, the pier is built and the beach club opens, anchoring the walkable core near today's Pier Bowl and downtown.
The stock market crash halts development, and the young town's population reportedly falls by roughly 60 percent over the following decade. Many of the original streets and homes pre-date a long quiet stretch.
President Nixon's purchase of La Casa Pacifica puts San Clemente on the national map and draws new interest in the coast.
Later decades add master-planned neighborhoods such as Forster Ranch and, further south, Talega, with parks, trails and homeowners associations, a very different kind of housing from the village core.
A 248-acre coastal development is approved, bringing new homes and the outlet center along Avenida Vista Hermosa.
The village core, the hillside streets and the planned communities behave differently in the market, and this history is part of why. That is why the weekly reports on this site break things down by ZIP code, and why Rudy recommends looking at comparable homes on similar streets.
Historical facts come from public sources and local histories and may be simplified. Rudy is not a historian, so for deeper research visit your local historical society.