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.

Meadow Ridge was built in 1984 on a single parcel along Thousand Oaks Boulevard, the old highway through the valley, in the city’s first years. The developer is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. The county records show 47 units.

The units are two-bedroom plans of 1,202 and 1,231 square feet on two levels. The top is $665,000 in May 2024 for a 1,202-square-foot unit, then $615,000 in December 2023 for a 1,231-square-foot unit, and the bottom is $590,000 in December 2024 for a 1,202-square-foot unit. All three sales are two-level plans.

No plan sheet for Meadow Ridge Condos 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 1,202 to 1,231 square feet, median 1,202, with two bedrooms in three of the three, and every recorded sale is two story.

One address, Thousand Oaks Boulevard, with the buildings set back from the boulevard around the parking and the grounds.

The first reason is the plan, a 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom on two levels, which is the largest of its kind on the boulevard. The second is the scale, 47 units rather than several hundred. The third is the location, between the Kanan Road shops and Lake Lindero with the freeway a few minutes away.

Listings report the fee at $576–$605 a month, with $605 on the latest sale in December 2024. The recorded sales report association fees of $576 and $605 a month. Listings describe guest parking and maintained landscaping in the amenities.

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.

Agoura Hills is in the Las Virgenes Unified district, and listings on this stretch of Thousand Oaks Boulevard give Sumac Elementary, Lindero Canyon Middle School and Agoura High School. Confirm the exact address with the district locator.

The Kanan Road shops and the Whizin Market Square are a few minutes west, and Lake Lindero’s course is across the boulevard. 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 Ventura Freeway is the spine of the Conejo Valley, and this tract is a few minutes from an on-ramp at Kanan Road, Reyes Adobe Road, Chesebro Road or Liberty Canyon Road. Errands are along Kanan Road and Agoura 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 last two years, just 1 unit in the community sold through the MLS, at $590,000 in December 2024. Over the longer record, three sales from December 2023 through December 2024 ran from $590,000 to $665,000 with a median of $615,000. The top of the record is $665,000 on Thousand Oaks Boulevard #F in May 2024 for a 1,202-square-foot two-bedroom; $615,000 on Thousand Oaks Boulevard #F in December 2023 for a 1,231-square-foot two-bedroom. The bottom is $615,000 on Thousand Oaks Boulevard #F in December 2023; $590,000 on Thousand Oaks Boulevard #B in December 2024.

Three sales in one year from $590,000 to $665,000 is a narrow band for one plan, with the renovation deciding the position inside it. Gary Jacobs keeps the full sale-by-sale history and can say where a given unit sits in it.

No lease is recorded in the MLS sources this guide draws on, so it does not quote a rent. The association’s leasing rules should be read before buying as an investment.

These homes date from 1984, 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 condominium communities along the boulevard. Lakeview Villas on Skyview Way, 1984 to 1985, is 666- to 1,227-square-foot units at a median of $447,000 with fees of $562 to $898 a month. Town & Country Condos at Kanan Road, 1978, is 501- to 1,070-square-foot units at a median of $330,000. Lake Lindero Townhomes on Canwood Street, 1974, is 999- to 1,090-square-foot units at a median of $510,000. Meadow Ridge is the largest two-bedroom plan of the four and the highest price.

Start with the association package and the roof and plumbing history of a 1984 community. Then the boulevard, which the front buildings face. Then the stairs, since every plan is two levels.

First-time buyers first. Downsizers second, who accept the stairs for the size. Investors third.

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 — $665,000 — 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.