Ben Johnson Fairway was built in 1979 and 1980, in the first wave of North Ranch tracts around the country club that had opened on the ranch land north of Westlake Village in the 1970s. The streets take their names from golf — the Ryder and Walker Cups, Royal St George’s, Tam O’Shanter, Plum Hollow — and the tract sits directly beside the club’s fairways, which is the view many of the lots were sold on.

The developer is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. What the record shows is a tract of about 114 houses of 1,932 to 2,898 square feet on small lots, some of them carried in the MLS as townhouses because the lots are so tight, with a greenbelt and guest parking carried as the amenities and a fee that listings report at $114 to $250 a quarter.

The record sorts into three or four plans. A single-story plan of about 2,196 to 2,756 square feet with three bedrooms, which accounts for five of the sixteen sales and sold at a median of $1,225,000; a two-story three-bedroom of about 2,756 square feet; and a two-story plan of 2,898 square feet, three or four bedrooms, which holds both of the top sales, $2,479,950 on Royal Saint George Drive in April 2025 and $1,995,000 on the same street in March 2023, both on the fairway. Eleven of the sixteen are three-bedroom houses, four are four-bedroom and one is a two-bedroom.

No plan sheet for Ben Johnson Fairway 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 1,932 to 2,898 square feet, median 2,651, with three bedrooms in eleven of the sixteen, four in four, two in one, and five of the sixteen recorded sales are single story.

Five streets off Kanan Road: Ryder Cup Drive carries five of the sixteen sales, Royal Saint George Drive six, Plum Hollow Circle three, and Tam Oshanter Drive and Walker Cup Circle one each. The lots run from about 4,400 to 16,100 square feet, median about 6,100, and the difference between an interior lot and one that backs onto the golf course is most of the difference between the bottom of the record and the top.

The first reason is the entry: a detached house in North Ranch, in the Conejo Valley district with Westlake High, from under $1,000,000 at the bottom of the record. The second is the single-story plan, five of sixteen sales, which is rare in North Ranch at this price. The third is the fairway: the lots that back onto the club have the view without the membership. The fourth is the fee, a few hundred dollars a quarter rather than the guard-gated tracts’ thousands.

Listings report the fee at $114–$250 a quarter and $74 a year. The fee carries the greenbelts, the common landscaping and guest parking, and an architectural review of exteriors. The North Ranch Country Club is a separate private club with its own membership; the fee does not include it.

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 Country Club is next door, and the North Ranch Center at Kanan Road and Lindero Canyon Road is a few minutes away for groceries and errands. 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.

Kanan Road runs south to the Ventura Freeway at the Agoura Hills interchange in about seven minutes, and Westlake Boulevard is a few minutes the other way. Errands are at the North Ranch Center; 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.

In the two years through September 2026, seven homes in the tract sold through the MLS, at prices from $1,125,000 to $2,479,950 and a median of $1,525,000. Going back to April 2020, sixteen sales are on record, from $984,500 to $2,479,950 with a median of $1,432,500. The top of the record is $2,479,950 on Royal Saint George Drive in April 2025 for a 2,898-square-foot three-bedroom; $1,995,000 on Royal Saint George Drive in March 2023 for a 2,898-square-foot three-bedroom. The bottom is $985,000 on Ryder Cup Drive in June 2020; $984,500 on Plum Hollow Circle in July 2020. Single-story homes account for five of the sixteen sales, at a median of $1,225,000.

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 Ben Johnson Fairway; 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 1979 to 1980, and the inspection carries the 1970s list: galvanised or early copper supply lines, original panels, single-pane windows where not replaced, original furnaces and water heaters, wood-shake roofs long since replaced but sometimes with the sheathing still original, and cast-iron or clay sewer laterals. 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 1970s 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 small-lot tracts around the club. Masters Series, 1988 and 1989 next door, is 2,117- to 3,346-square-foot houses at a median of $1,600,000 with a fee of $340 to $360 a quarter. Fairway Oaks, 1983 to 1986 on Rayburn Street, is 2,577- to 4,642-square-foot houses at a median of $1,860,000. Clubview, the 1981 townhomes on the fairway, trades at a median of $1,049,000 with dues of $600 to $820 a month. Ben Johnson Fairway is the oldest and the least expensive of the detached group, and the fairway lots trade with Masters Series.

Start with the lot, because it decides the price: interior, greenbelt or fairway. Then the plan and level, single story or two. Then the house, with the inspector briefed on 1979 and 1980: original systems, roof underlayment and dual-pane seals. Then the association package, small as it is, for the fee and the architectural rules, and the golf-course questions — errant balls, maintenance hours, tree policy — for a fairway lot.

First-time North Ranch buyers first, choosing the address and the schools over a larger house elsewhere. Downsizers second, into the single-story plans, often from a larger North Ranch house. Golfers third, for the fairway lots beside the club.

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 1970s. 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 — $2,479,950 — 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.