One street, Marks Road, a cul-de-sac off Liberty Canyon Road with the eight houses on lots of about an acre and the open hillside above.

The record is three sales of two plans: $2,240,000 on Marks Road in June 2024 for a 4,161-square-foot five-bedroom on 1.08 acres, $1,905,000 in July 2024 for a 3,330-square-foot five-bedroom on an acre, and $1,870,000 in May 2023 for the same plan on 1.24 acres. All three are two story; none of the recorded sales reports an association fee.

No plan sheet for Heritage View Estates 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 3,330 to 4,161 square feet, median 3,330, with five bedrooms in three of the three, and every recorded sale is two story.

The first reason is the lot: an acre inside the city limits, with city water and sewer rather than a well and septic, and the freeway five minutes away. The second is the size of the houses, 3,330 to 4,161 square feet, with room to add. The third is the scarcity: eight houses, and a sale roughly once a year.

No association fee appears in the recorded sales, which means the constraint on an owner is the city and county permit process rather than an architectural committee. Confirm with the title report that no association or CC&Rs attach to the specific parcel.

Agoura Hills is in the Las Virgenes Unified district, and listings on Marks Road give Yerba Buena Elementary, Lindero Canyon Middle School and Agoura High School. Confirm the exact address with the district locator.

Liberty Canyon Road leads north to the freeway and the Kanan Road shops, and the Liberty Canyon trails and the Malibu Creek State Park trailheads are a few minutes south. Agoura Hills runs on Kanan Road and the freeway: the shops and restaurants along Kanan Road and Agoura Road, the Whizin Market Square and the Twin Oaks center, Chumash Park and the city’s smaller parks, the Reyes Adobe Historical Site, and the Santa Monica Mountains trails at Cheseboro Canyon, Ladyface and Paramount Ranch a few minutes away. The Ventura Freeway runs through the middle of the city with interchanges at Kanan Road, Reyes Adobe Road, Chesebro Road and Liberty Canyon Road, and the drive to the Westside is the same forty minutes to ninety it is from anywhere in the Conejo Valley.

The Liberty Canyon Road interchange is at the end of the road, the easternmost in Agoura Hills and the closest to Calabasas. Errands are along Kanan Road or at the Commons in Calabasas; 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 homes have sold through the MLS here in the last two years. Before that, three sales from May 2023 through July 2024 ran from $1,870,000 to $2,240,000 with a median of $1,905,000. The top of the record is $2,240,000 on Marks Road in June 2024 for a 4,161-square-foot five-bedroom; $1,905,000 on Marks Road in July 2024 for a 3,330-square-foot five-bedroom. The bottom is $1,905,000 on Marks Road in July 2024; $1,870,000 on Marks Road in May 2023.

Three sales in three years in a band from $1,870,000 to $2,240,000 is a set of data points rather than a market. What they support is a value near $1,900,000 for the 3,330-square-foot plan and above $2,200,000 for the 4,161-square-foot plan, with the lot and the condition deciding the rest. 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. A house of this size on an acre is a scarce rental in Agoura Hills.

These homes date from 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. Slope lots add drainage and retaining-wall questions that a general inspector will flag but a geotechnical engineer should answer; pools of this age often have original equipment and plaster. None of this is unusual; all of it is negotiable if it is found before the contingency comes off rather than after.

In a tract of this era the remodels that return their cost are the ones that bring a 1990s plan to the way people live now: the kitchen opened to the family room, the primary bath and closet, the floors and the glass, and, on the right lot, the pool. What does not return its cost is the addition that pushes the house past what the street will support; the record shows the top sales are renovated versions of the original plans on the better lots, not the biggest houses.

The comparison is the other acreage tracts of Agoura Hills. Stonecrest on Oakfen, Aldren and Ember Courts, 1980 to 1981, is 2,528- to 3,817-square-foot houses on half-acre to three-quarter-acre lots at a median of $1,575,000 with no fee. Medea Valley Estates, the gated community on Wagon Road in Cornell, 1979 to 1989, is 3,342- to 7,134-square-foot houses on an acre or more at a median of $3,137,500. Morrison Highlands, 1983 to 1988, is 3,833- to 5,902-square-foot houses on quarter- to half-acre lots at a median of $2,625,000. Heritage View is the acre-lot option at the lowest entry.

Start with the hillside: the lots are on a slope above Liberty Canyon, and a geotechnical engineer should read the pad, the drainage and any retaining walls. Then the fire mapping and an insurance quote early, since the tract backs to open space. Then the house itself, briefed for the 1990s: original systems and tile-roof underlayment approaching the end of their span.

Buyers who want acreage without leaving the city first, comparing Marks Road with Stonecrest and Old Agoura. Families second, for the five bedrooms and the schools. Buyers relocating third, for whom an acre in the Las Virgenes district is the brief.

For a buyer, read the plan off the square footage and the level, walk the lot before the house, 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 — $2,240,000 — 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.

Agoura Hills incorporated in 1982, but the tracts along the freeway were laid out and built through the 1960s and 1970s when the area was unincorporated Los Angeles County, and the names on the record maps and in the MLS are the names the builders used at the time.

Heritage View Estates was recorded as a tract of eight one-acre lots on the hillside off Liberty Canyon Road and built out in 1996, at the end of the period when the east end of the city was filling in. The developer is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. The county records show eight parcels.