Hidden Canyon was built from 1985 to 1988 on the hillside off Lindero Canyon Road, north of the freeway on the Ventura County side, as the largest attached community in Westlake Village: about 650 units, by the parcel count in Ventura County assessor records, on a single address, Via Colinas. It came at the end of the community’s build-out, when the remaining land was the slopes and the market wanted an entry price the detached tracts could no longer offer.

The developer is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. What the record shows is a community of two- and three-bedroom units, stacked and two-level, with a greenbelt, guest parking, a playground and the hiking trails carried in listings as amenities, and dues that listings report at $307 to $567 a month.

The sale record sorts into three products. Single-level units of about 856 to 1,300 square feet, two bedrooms, twelve of the sixty-nine sales, at a median of $580,000. Two-level two-bedrooms of about 1,250 square feet, the bulk of the record. And two-level three-bedrooms of 1,332 to 1,435 square feet at the top, which sold to $825,000 in July 2023. The MLS carries the units as condominium and townhouse interchangeably; the level and the plan are what matter.

No plan sheet for Hidden Canyon 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 shows homes of 856 to 1,435 square feet, median 1,254, with two bedrooms in 46 of the 69, three in 23, and twelve of the 69 recorded sales are single story.

Everything is on Via Colinas, which loops through the hillside in a series of buildings and parking courts. Position inside the complex — upper or lower, view or interior, distance from Lindero Canyon Road — is what separates otherwise identical units, and it is what the sale record prices.

The first reason is the entry: a Westlake Village address, the Conejo Valley district and Westlake High for $454,000 to $825,000, which no detached tract can approach. The second is choice: with sixty-nine sales in six years there is usually something for sale, single level or two, view or interior. The third is the hillside itself, with the trails at the top and the shopping at the bottom. The fourth is liquidity: the community that sells the most is also the easiest to sell in.

Listings report the fee at $307–$567 a month. The fee carries the buildings’ exteriors and roofs, the grounds, the pool and common areas, guest parking and, per listings, some or all of the water and trash; which of those is included, and whether the association carries earthquake cover, is what the disclosure package answers.

What the association covers and what the CC&Rs restrict is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. Take the budget, the reserve study, the insurance certificate and the CC&Rs from the seller’s disclosure package, read the minutes for any special assessment or litigation, and confirm the current fee with the manager before removing a contingency.

Ventura County side of Westlake Village, inside the City of Thousand Oaks, so Conejo Valley Unified: Westlake Elementary or Westlake Hills Elementary, Colina Middle School and Westlake High School are the assignments listings give for this side. Confirm the exact address with the district locator; the county line is also the district line, and it runs through the middle of the community.

The trails up the hillside leave from the top of Via Colinas, and the North Ranch shopping at Lindero Canyon and Kanan is a few minutes down the road. Westlake Village runs on the lake and the promenade: the Landing and the Westlake Village Inn on the water, the shops and restaurants along Agoura Road and Westlake Boulevard, the YMCA, the community park, and Triunfo Creek and the Santa Monica Mountains trails within a few minutes. The Ventura Freeway crosses the middle of the community, and most tracts are five minutes from an on-ramp; the drive to the Westside is the same forty minutes to ninety it is from anywhere in the Conejo Valley.

The Ventura Freeway is the spine of the Conejo Valley, and this tract is a few minutes from an on-ramp. Errands are along Agoura Road, Westlake Boulevard and Lindero Canyon Road; the Westside is forty minutes on a good day and ninety on a bad one, and a buyer who commutes should time it at 7:30 in the morning before deciding.

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 August 2026, 28 units in the tract sold through the MLS, at prices from $495,000 to $770,000 and a median of $687,500. Since March 2020, 69 sales are on record, from $453,700 to $825,000. The top of the record is $825,000 on Via Colinas in July 2023 for a 1,435-square-foot three-bedroom; $820,000 on Via Colinas in June 2022 for a 1,332-square-foot three-bedroom. The bottom is $465,000 on Via Colinas in March 2020; $453,700 on Via Colinas in August 2020. Single-story homes account for twelve of the 69 sales, at a median of $580,000.

The shape of the six years is the same as the rest of the Conejo Valley: sharp appreciation from 2020 into 2022 and a band since, with the premium inside the band going to the plan, the lot, the view and the renovation. A record this short should be read as a range rather than a trend; Gary Jacobs keeps the full sale-by-sale history and can say where a given house sits in it.

No lease is recorded in the MLS sources this guide draws on, so it does not quote a rent for Hidden Canyon; a current figure should come from the leasing agents who work these streets. Each association’s leasing rules — minimum terms, caps, pet rules — should be read before buying as an investment.

These homes date from 1985 to 1988, and the inspection carries the 1980s list: original furnaces and condensers at end of life, tile-roof underlayment nearing the end of its span, failed dual-pane seals, and for 1985 to 1989 the possibility of polybutylene supply lines, which a plumber should be asked about by name. In attached communities add the association questions: who owns the roof, the exterior walls and the plumbing inside them, when the buildings were last repiped or reroofed, and whether the reserves are funded for the next round. Ask the association for the roof and plumbing history in writing.

In attached communities the remodel that pays is inside the walls: the kitchen opened to the living room, the baths, the floors, the windows where the association allows, and a laundry brought into the unit. What does not pay is anything the association will not approve or that the next buyer cannot see from the listing photos. Check the rules before the plans.

The comparison is the other attached communities of Westlake Village. Westlake Bay, 1974 to 1975 on South Westlake Boulevard, is larger units on the lake at a median of $945,000 with dues of $635 to $925 a month. Westpark Condos, 1968 on Agoura Road, is the lowest entry: one- and two-bedrooms at a median of $448,475. The Colony, 1981 to 1987, is gated townhomes with tennis at a median of $851,000. Hidden Canyon and Village Homes, the 1970s townhome tracts on the Ventura County side, trade a step above Hidden Canyon. Hidden Canyon has the most inventory and the widest choice of level and plan.

Start with the association package, because at this price the dues are the largest variable: the fee for the unit, what it covers, the reserve study, the insurance certificate and the minutes. Then the level: single level for a downsizer or a buyer who cannot do stairs, two-level for the space. Then the position in the complex, which the record prices. Then the unit, with the inspector briefed on the late-1980s list and asked about polybutylene by name.

First-time buyers first, for whom Hidden Canyon is the way into Westlake Village. Downsizers second, into the single-level units. Investors third, for the tenant pool the schools create, subject to the association’s leasing rules.

For a buyer, read the plan off the square footage and the level, take the association package from the disclosures before the inspection, and brief the inspector for the 1980s. Pull the permit history of any addition, pool or converted garage from the county. Confirm the school assignment for the exact address.

For a seller, the comparable is the same plan and level, and the top of the record — $825,000 — is the renovated house on the better lot. Price to the record for the plan, say the association fee and the school assignment in the first lines of the listing, and let the condition argue for the top of the band.