No plan sheet for Country Vista is in the Conejo Simi Moorpark Association of Realtors archive that this guide series draws on, so there is no drawing to reproduce. The sale record sorts cleanly. Eight of the twenty-one sales are single-level two-bedrooms, 980 to 1,294 square feet, from $550,000 to about $700,000. Eight are two-story three-bedrooms at 1,462 to 1,672 square feet, mostly $700,000 to $816,000. Two are two-story four-bedrooms at 1,672 to 1,766, including the top of the record at $840,000 on Vista Dorado Lane in April 2023, and one is a five-bedroom at 1,900.

Conifer Circle and Via Novella carry the most sales, with Via Del Caballo, Sparrowhawk Lane, Camelia Lane and Vista Dorado Lane behind them. The street matters here less for price than for the school assignment, which splits the community between Brookside and Red Oak; see the schools section before falling for a unit.

A buyer searching by property type will miss units here, because the same community is filed as condominium, townhouse and single family residence depending on how the agent entered it. In the sale record, the six filed as single family residence sold from $578,800 to $789,950; the nine townhouses from $550,000 to $840,000; the six condominiums from $615,000 to $785,000. The ranges overlap almost completely. What actually moves price is the plan, the level and the condition, not the label. Search Oak Park by price and square footage, not by type, and read the description for “detached.”

The first reason is the district at the lowest price it can be had: a two-bedroom in Oak Park Unified for $700,000, a three-bedroom for $760,000, when detached houses in the community’s tracts have started near $800,000 in the record and most trade above $1,000,000. The second is the single-level option: eight of twenty-one sales are one level, which matters to buyers downsizing within the community. The third is location, on the freeway side of Oak Park. The fourth is the amenity package for the money: pool, tennis, greenbelt and a clubhouse are not standard in the detached tracts.

2026 sales report the Country Vista fee at $594 to $595 a month (older listings ranged from $403 to $735), and a secondary source gives about $595 with a contact number. That spread is unusual for one community and it is the first thing a buyer should ask about: it may reflect different fee schedules for detached and attached units, master-and-sub associations, or simply fee increases across the six years of the record. What the fee covers — whether it includes exterior maintenance, roofs, water, trash, earthquake or fire insurance on the structures — is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. The amenities carried in listings are a pool, tennis courts, greenbelt, guest parking, a clubhouse and landscape maintenance.

For underwriting, $600 a month is real money at this price: on a $742,000 purchase it is the equivalent of roughly $90,000 of loan at current rates, and a lender will count it. Take the budget, the reserve study, the insurance certificate and the CC&Rs from the seller’s disclosure package, and read the minutes for any special assessment or litigation before removing a contingency. A community of this age will have roofs, paving and plumbing on its reserve schedule, and whether the reserves are funded is the question that separates a good association from a future assessment.

Country Vista is in the Oak Park Unified School District, a small independent K–12 district that is one of the main reasons buyers choose Oak Park, and for many Country Vista buyers the whole reason. The district publishes an elementary boundary street list, and it splits this community down the middle. Conifer Circle, Conifer Street, Sparrowhawk Lane, Camelia Lane, Rosehedge Lane, Meadowlark Lane and Mimosa Court are assigned to Brookside Elementary. Via Novella, Via Del Caballo, Vista Dorado Lane, Estrellita Lane, Calle Mirador, El Azul Circle and Calle De Las Ovejas are assigned to Red Oak Elementary. The district has one middle school, Medea Creek, and one high school, Oak Park High, so the split ends at fifth grade. The street list this guide relies on is dated 2017; confirm the current assignment with the district office before relying on it, and confirm it for the exact address, because the line runs through the community.

Country Vista is on the south side of Oak Park near the Agoura Hills line, which puts it closer to the Ventura Freeway than any other Oak Park tract: Kanan Road to the 101 is a few minutes. The community’s own pool and tennis courts are the everyday amenity, and Oak Canyon Community Park, with its pond, playgrounds and splash pad, is nearby. The Kanan and Lindero Canyon shopping center has the supermarket and everyday services; Agoura Hills and Westlake Village have the rest.

The figures in this section were current when this guide was last reviewed. The sale record in the facts above and the listings below are drawn live from the MLS each time the page loads.

In the two years through July 2026, seven homes in the community sold through the MLS, at prices from $682,500 to $905,000 and a median of $742,000. The longer record since July 2020 starts at $550,000. The single-level two-bedrooms sold at a median near $700,000 and the two-story units near $760,000. The top three — $840,000 on Vista Dorado Lane in April 2023, $816,000 on Calle Mirador in May 2025, $789,950 on El Azul Circle in October 2024 — are the larger two-story plans, renovated. The bottom is the 2020 record: $550,000 for a 1,048-square-foot two-bedroom on Vista Dorado Lane in August 2020 and $578,800 for a 1,462-square-foot three-bedroom on Mimosa Court the month before.

The shape of the five years is the same as the rest of Oak Park: a jump from 2020 into 2022 and a band since. A three-bedroom that sold for $578,800 in 2020 has traded at $750,000 to $816,000 since 2023 in comparable condition. Against the other attached communities, Country Vista trades about level with Country Village and Country Highlands, above Shadow Oaks and Shadow Ridge, and below Capri West Oaks Park, the 1990s townhomes at a median of $750,000.

These units are forty to forty-eight years old, and the list for a late-1970s attached community is specific: original galvanised or early copper supply lines; original electrical panels, some of brands that insurers flag; single-pane aluminum windows where they have not been replaced; original furnaces and water heaters; and, in the attached units, the questions of who owns the roof, the exterior walls and the plumbing inside them — which is an association question as much as an inspection one. Ask the inspector to check the crawl space or slab for moisture, and ask the association for the roof replacement history and the plumbing repipe history of the buildings.

No lease is recorded in the MLS sources this guide draws on, so it does not quote a rent for the community; a current figure should come from the leasing agents who work these streets. A two- or three-bedroom in the Oak Park district at this price point is a natural rental for families who want the schools before they can buy, and the association’s rules on leasing — minimum terms, caps, pet rules, which listings mention — should be read before buying as an investment.

Start with the association, because at this price it is the largest variable: get the fee for the exact unit, find out what it covers, and read the reserve study and the minutes. Then the school assignment, for the exact address, because the Brookside–Red Oak line runs through the community. Then the plan and the level. Then the house, with the inspector briefed on the late-1970s list, and a clear answer from the association about who owns the roof, the exterior and the pipes in the walls. A buyer who wants a yard, a garage that holds two cars and no monthly fee should look at Country Village’s detached units, or accept the step up to Montego or Monte Carlo.

First-time buyers and young families first, for whom Country Vista is the way into the district. Downsizers within Oak Park second, who want one level, no yard work and the community they know, and who take the single-level two-bedrooms. Investors third, for the tenant pool the district creates, subject to the association’s leasing rules.

The comparisons that matter are the other attached and small-lot communities of Oak Park. Country Village, 1979 to 1984 on Thistlegate Road and Sprucewood Avenue, is 1,134- to 1,827-square-foot townhomes and small houses at a median of $735,000 with dues of about $450 to $526 a month. Country Highlands, 1984 to 1986, is 1,012- to 1,449-square-foot townhomes at a median of $735,000 with dues near $500. Capri West Oaks Park, 1990 to 1994, is 1,240- to 1,643-square-foot two-story townhomes at a median of $750,000 with dues of $368 to $515. Shadow Ridge, 1990, is 780- to 1,244-square-foot condominiums at a median of $470,000 with dues of $475 to $595. Country Vista sits in the middle of the group on price with the widest fee spread and the only meaningful single-level share.

For a buyer, get the association package before the inspection, not after: the fee for the unit, what it covers, the reserve study, the insurance and the minutes. Confirm the elementary assignment for the exact address. Then read the plan off the square footage and the level, and brief the inspector on the late-1970s list. Search by price and square footage rather than property type, because the MLS filing is inconsistent.

For a seller, the comparable is the same plan and level, and the top of the record — $840,000, $816,000, $789,950 — is the larger two-story plans, renovated. State the property type, the level, whether the unit is detached, the fee and what it covers, and the elementary assignment in the listing, because those are the five questions every buyer asks first and the ones that lose showings when they are missing.

Oak Park is an unincorporated community of Ventura County, and it grew as a sequence of tracts from the late 1960s onward. The first wave, along Kanan Road, was the attached and small-lot housing that made the community affordable at the start: Country Vista, Country Village, Country Glen and the other “Country” tracts of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Country Vista, built 1978 to 1984 in the recorded sales, is the largest of them by sales, with about 294 homes.

The builder is not named in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify, and this guide does not guess. What the sale record shows is a community of two products: a single-level two-bedroom of about 980 to 1,300 square feet, some of them detached bungalows, and a two-story three- or four-bedroom townhome of about 1,460 to 1,900. The MLS carries them under three property types — condominium, townhouse and single family residence — which is a filing convention, not three different communities.