Kensington Park was built from 1990 to 1996 as the last of the gated townhome tracts at the east end of North Ranch, after Braemar Townhomes and Meadow Oaks, and it is the newest attached community in North Ranch. The MLS carries the homes as townhouses and condominiums interchangeably.

The developer is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. What the record shows is a community of about 103 homes of 1,948 to 2,579 square feet, two to four bedrooms, every recorded sale two level, with the gates, a greenbelt and maintained landscaping carried as the amenities and dues of up to $654 a month on 2025 sales (listings have reported $564 to $654).

The record sorts into three plans. A 1,948- to 1,956-square-foot two- or three-bedroom, the smallest, which holds the bottom of the record at $1,000,000 on Westcreek Lane in December 2023 and $1,085,000 on Terrace Hill Circle in June 2023. A 2,168-square-foot three-bedroom, the median plan. And a 2,512- to 2,579-square-foot four-bedroom, the largest, which holds the top: $1,415,000 on Terrace Hill Circle in August 2024 and $1,400,000 on Westcreek Lane in July 2022. Eight of the sixteen are three-bedroom homes, six are four-bedroom and two are two-bedroom.

No plan sheet for Kensington Park 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 1,948 to 2,579 square feet, median 2,168, with three bedrooms in eight of the sixteen, four in six, two in two, and every recorded sale is two story.

Five streets inside the gates: Westcreek Lane carries eight of the sixteen sales, Terrace Hill Circle three, Ingram Place and Whispering Pines Circle two each, and Edgebrook Place one. End units and the homes against the greenbelt trade at the top of the plan’s band, interior units at the bottom.

The first reason is the age: 1990 to 1996, the newest attached homes in North Ranch, with the roof and plumbing questions of the 1980s tracts a decade further off. The second is the four-bedroom plan, which no other North Ranch townhome tract offers. The third is the gate and the grounds at a fee in the middle of the group. The fourth is the band: $1,000,000 to $1,415,000 across sixteen sales is a market a buyer can read from a distance.

Listings report the fee at $564–$654 a month. The fee carries the gates, the buildings’ exteriors and roofs, the grounds, the greenbelt and the common landscaping, and an architectural review; which of the insurance, water and trash are 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.

North Ranch is inside the City of Thousand Oaks and the Conejo Valley Unified district: Westlake Hills Elementary, Colina Middle School and Westlake High School are the assignments listings give for these streets. Confirm the exact address with the district locator, since the elementary boundary is not the tract boundary.

The North Ranch Center at Kanan Road and Lindero Canyon Road is a few minutes down the road, and the Oak Park shops at Kanan Road are about as close. North Ranch is the country-club side of Westlake Village: the North Ranch Country Club and its courses in the middle, the North Ranch Center shopping at Kanan Road and Lindero Canyon Road for groceries, coffee and errands, the open-space trails up the hillsides behind the tracts, and the lake, the Landing and the Westlake Village Inn ten minutes down Westlake Boulevard or Lindero Canyon Road. The Ventura Freeway is ten minutes from most streets by either road, and the drive to the Westside is the same forty minutes to ninety it is from anywhere in the Conejo Valley.

Lindero Canyon Road runs south to the Ventura Freeway in about eight minutes. Errands are at the North Ranch Center or in Oak Park; the Westside is forty minutes on a good day and ninety on a bad one.

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.

Four homes in the community sold through the MLS in the last two years (October 2024 to August 2025), at prices from $1,105,000 to $1,325,000 and a median of $1,162,500. The longer record is sixteen sales since July 2022, from $1,000,000 to $1,415,000 with a median of $1,200,000. The top of the record is $1,415,000 on Terrace Hill Circle in August 2024 for a 2,512-square-foot four-bedroom; $1,400,000 on Westcreek Lane in July 2022 for a 2,512-square-foot four-bedroom. The bottom is $1,085,000 on Terrace Hill Circle in June 2023; $1,000,000 on Westcreek Lane in December 2023.

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 Kensington Park; 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 1990 to 1996, and the inspection carries the 1990s list: original systems at end of life, tile-roof underlayment approaching the end of its span, failed dual-pane seals, and for 1990 to 1994 the possibility of polybutylene supply lines. 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 North Ranch. Braemar Townhomes, 1986 to 1992 next door, is 1,645- to 2,492-square-foot gated townhomes at a median of $995,000 with dues of $465 to $771 a month. Meadow Oaks, 1987 on Starwood Court, is 2,000- to 2,145-square-foot gated townhomes at a median of $1,025,000. Fairgreen, 1983 and 1984 beside the club, is 2,119- to 2,572-square-foot townhomes at a median of $1,480,000. Kensington Park is the newest of the group and trades above Braemar Townhomes and Meadow Oaks at the median, with the four-bedroom plan the reason.

Start with the association package, because 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 plan: the four-bedroom holds the top of the record and the 1,948-square-foot plan the bottom. Then the position inside the gates. Then the unit, with the inspector briefed on the early 1990s and asked about polybutylene supply lines by name for 1990 to 1994.

First-time North Ranch buyers first, for whom the townhomes are the way in. Families second, for the four-bedroom plan behind a gate. Downsizers third, from the detached tracts, for a newer place in the same community.

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 1990s. 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 the top of the record — $1,415,000 — 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.