Meadow Oaks was built in 1987, in the second wave of North Ranch, as a small gated townhome court off Lindero Canyon Road beside the Braemar tracts. It is one street behind one gate, and 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 34 homes of one plan, 2,145 square feet with three bedrooms, a few carried at 2,000 square feet with two, every recorded sale two level, with the gate, a greenbelt and maintained landscaping carried as the amenities and dues that listings report at $440 to $462 a month.

One plan: a 2,145-square-foot three-bedroom on two levels, with a 2,000-square-foot two-bedroom variation appearing once. All four sales were in 2023: $970,000 in May and $1,000,000 in March at the bottom, $1,050,000 in July and $1,110,000 in September at the top, all on Starwood Court. With one plan, the difference is the position on the court and the renovation.

No plan sheet for Meadow Oaks 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 2,000 to 2,145 square feet, median 2,145, with three bedrooms in three of the four, two in one, and every recorded sale is two story.

One street, Starwood Court, behind one gate off Lindero Canyon Road. End units and the homes against the greenbelt trade at the top of the plan’s band.

The first reason is the dues, the lowest of the North Ranch townhome tracts for a gated community. The second is the scale: 34 homes on one court, where people know each other. The third is the plan, 2,145 square feet with three bedrooms. The fourth is the location, a few minutes from the North Ranch Center and Oak Park.

Listings report the fee at $440–$462 a month, with $462 on the most recent sales in 2023. The fee carries the gate, 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.

No Meadow Oaks townhome has sold through the MLS in the two years through September 2026. The four sales on record, from March 2023 through September 2023, ran from $970,000 to $1,110,000 with a median of $1,025,000. The top of the record is $1,110,000 on Starwood Court in September 2023 for a 2,145-square-foot three-bedroom; $1,050,000 on Starwood Court in July 2023 for a 2,145-square-foot three-bedroom. The bottom is $1,000,000 on Starwood Court in March 2023; $970,000 on Starwood Court in May 2023.

Four sales in one year is a snapshot rather than a trend: a band of $970,000 to $1,110,000 for the same plan in 2023, with nothing recorded since. The townhome tracts around it — Braemar Townhomes and Kensington Park — have traded in a similar band through 2026, which is the best guide to where Meadow Oaks would trade today. Gary Jacobs keeps the full history and can say where a given home sits in it.

No lease is recorded in the MLS sources this guide draws on, so it does not quote a rent for Meadow Oaks; 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 1987, 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 at the east end 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. Kensington Park, 1990 to 1996, is 1,948- to 2,579-square-foot gated townhomes at a median of $1,200,000 with dues of $564 to $654 a month. Clubview, 1981 on the fairway, is 1,804- to 2,267-square-foot townhomes at a median of $1,049,000. Meadow Oaks trades with Braemar Townhomes and Clubview at the median, with the lowest dues of the group.

Start with the association package, because in a 34-home association the reserves matter more, not less: the fee, what it covers, the reserve study for 1987 roofs and plumbing, the insurance certificate and the minutes. Then the position on the court. Then the unit, with the inspector briefed on 1987 and asked about polybutylene supply lines by name. Then patience: four sales in six years.

First-time North Ranch buyers first, for whom the court is the way in. Downsizers second, from the detached tracts, for a smaller place behind a gate in the same community. Investors third, 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 the top of the record — $1,110,000 — 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.