Chateau Springs belongs to the third push of the city’s growth, the 1980s, when the large land areas on the east side of what had just become the City of Agoura Hills were subdivided into housing tracts. The recorded sales are built from 1983 to 1989, most of them 1983 to 1987 — the same years as Morrison Ranch South and the Highlands a short distance east — and the product is the product of that decade: a two-story family house of 2,500 to 3,300 square feet with four bedrooms, a family room, an island kitchen and a two- or three-car garage, on a lot of 6,000 to 7,000 square feet, in an association that carried a park and some landscaping rather than a pool.

What distinguishes it from Morrison Ranch is the scale. The lots are smaller, the houses are a size smaller than Ranch South and much smaller than the Highlands, and the association fee is a fraction of the Morrison figure; what the buyer got in exchange was the same decade’s house at a lower price, and the record shows that is still the trade. The park in the center of the community, Forest Cove Park, is the tract’s amenity and its social center. The builder’s name is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify; a secondary source puts the tract at roughly 150 homes, but county assessor records show about 191 parcels inside the tract outline, and the recorded tract map at the Los Angeles County Recorder is the document that would settle both.

No plan sheet for Chateau Springs 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 a tract built to a handful of two-story plans: a 2,489- to 2,688-square-foot three- or four-bedroom at the entry, a 2,895-square-foot four-bedroom that recurs through the record and reads as the core plan, and 3,095- to 3,338-square-foot four- and five-bedrooms at the top. Every one of the nineteen recorded sales is two story; there is no single-level plan in this tract, and a buyer who needs one level should look at Fountainwood, Hillrise or the Meadows tracts of Morrison Ranch instead.

Quail Run Drive and Forest Cove Lane carry the most sales, with Walnut Ridge Drive, Trail Creek Drive, Lazy Oak Place, High Peak Place and Laurel Bluff Place behind them. The streets do not sort the price; the lot and the renovation do. The top of the record is a 3,095-square-foot four-bedroom on Lazy Oak Place on a 9,700-square-foot lot at $1,830,000 in September 2025, a 3,278-square-foot house on Quail Run Drive on a 13,200-square-foot lot at $1,803,000 in July 2022, and a 3,162-square-foot house on Walnut Ridge Drive at $1,800,000 in November 2025. The floor is a 2,688-square-foot three-bedroom on Forest Cove Lane at $1,110,000 in October 2025 — the same month as the $1,800,000 sale, which says everything about how much condition and bedroom count matter inside one tract.

The first reason is the price for the product. A four-bedroom two-story of nearly 2,900 square feet from the 1980s, in the same school district as Morrison Ranch, at a two-year median of $1,549,000 rather than $1,770,000 or $2,600,000, is what the tract has been for forty years and what the record shows it still is. The second is the park in the center. The third is the fee, a couple of hundred dollars a year against Morrison Ranch’s quarterly figure. The fourth is the schools. And the fifth is the clarity: every house is two-story, the plans recur, and a buyer can read what a house is off the square footage before the showing.

This trips up buyers and search filters alike. Chateau Park is a separate community of 1980s townhomes beside Chateau Springs, carried in the MLS under its own subdivision code. Its twelve recorded sales since July 2020 run from $548,000 to $939,000 with a median of $800,000, at about 1,750 square feet, every one two-story, with dues of roughly $330 to $400 a month that carry exteriors and common areas in the way an attached community’s do. Chateau Springs is detached houses of 2,500 to 3,300 square feet at $1.1 to $1.8 million with a fee of a couple of hundred dollars a year. A listing at $800,000 with a monthly fee is Chateau Park whatever the subdivision field says, and a comparable pulled from one for the other will be wrong by half.

Listings report the Chateau Springs fee at $140 to $188 a year in most sales, with $88 and $165 a quarter in two, and a secondary source gives $188 a year with a contact number. The scale tells you what the association is: a body that keeps the park, some landscaping and an architectural say over the outside of the houses, rather than one that maintains a pool or a clubhouse — no pool, tennis court or clubhouse appears in the listing amenities. Forest Cove Park, in the center of the community, is the amenity, and it is the reason the tract reads as a family neighborhood on a weekend.

For underwriting, a Chateau Springs house carries a nominal association cost, and the constraint on an owner who wants to add a room or a pool is the city’s permit process plus whatever architectural review the CC&Rs give the association. Read them before planning anything visible from the street, and take the fee and what it covers from the certification for the specific parcel.

Chateau Springs is in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, and listing data for the tract’s addresses gives Willow Elementary, Lindero Canyon Middle School and Agoura High School. That assignment comes from listings rather than from a district boundary document this guide has been able to obtain. A family buying for a specific school should run the exact address through the Las Virgenes address locator before removing contingencies.

Forest Cove Park in the center of the community is the everyday amenity, and the streets around it are residential loops and courts rather than through routes. Chateau Springs is a few minutes from the 101 in the central-east part of Agoura Hills, and the freeway corridor is where the errands are: groceries, pharmacies, banks and medical offices along the frontage roads, with Calabasas a few minutes east and Westlake Village a few minutes west. The Cheeseboro Canyon trails of the National Recreation Area are a short drive. Every home has a garage, and commuters face the usual Conejo Valley pattern, eastbound in the morning and westbound in the evening, with Kanan Road the route toward the coast.

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 January 2026, 9 homes in the tract sold through the MLS, at prices from $1,110,000 to $1,830,000 and a median of $1,549,000; all nineteen sales on record since November 2020 are two-story. The top three — $1,830,000 on Lazy Oak Place in September 2025, $1,803,000 on Quail Run Drive in July 2022, $1,800,000 on Walnut Ridge Drive in November 2025 — are the larger plans on larger lots, renovated; the core 2,895-square-foot plan has sold from $1,234,353 on Forest Cove Lane in March 2023 to $1,684,000 on Trail Creek Drive in June 2024, and that $450,000 spread inside one plan is the tract’s story. The floor is $1,110,000 for a 2,688-square-foot three-bedroom on Forest Cove Lane in October 2025.

The shape of the six years is the same as the rest of the city: strong appreciation from 2020 into 2024 and a band since, with the premium inside the band going to lot and renovation. Against Morrison Ranch, Chateau Springs trades below Ranch South’s $1,770,000 median and about level with East Meadows’ $1,527,500 for a similar house on a smaller lot; against the west side it trades above Fountainwood’s $1,200,000 for a newer and larger house on a smaller lot. It is the least expensive way into a 1980s two-story of this size in the city.

These houses are thirty-five to forty years old, and construction of the 1980s brings a different list from the 1970s tracts: copper supply lines rather than galvanised, better glazing and insulation, but also original furnaces and water heaters at or past end of life, tile roofs whose underlayment has not lasted as well as the tile, early vinyl or aluminium windows, and in some homes of this vintage polybutylene supply piping, which is the one item to ask about by name. Pool installations and room additions are common, and their permit history belongs on the list. Every home is different and only a licensed inspector on the specific property can say what is actually there. On the remodel side the record says the money is in the kitchen, the primary suite, the floors and the glass, and that the core plan opened up sells $400,000 above the same plan untouched.

No lease is recorded in the MLS sources this guide draws on, so it does not quote a rent for the tract; a current figure should come from the leasing agents who work these streets. What can be said is that a four-bedroom 1980s two-story in the Las Virgenes district with a nominal association fee is an easy product to let and to hold, and that the association’s rules on leasing and its architectural guidelines bind a landlord as they do an owner. Read them before committing, and budget for the roof and the systems that the fee does not carry.

Start with the floor count, because there is none to choose: every recorded sale is two-story, and a buyer who needs one level should look elsewhere before falling for a kitchen here. Then the house, with the inspector briefed on the 1980s list and asked by name about polybutylene, and the permit history of any pool or addition. Then the association: the fee, the CC&Rs and the architectural review, which are modest but real. Then the lot, which is smaller than Morrison Ranch’s and sets the top of the market here. Then the name, because Chateau Park next door is a different product at half the price. Then the schools, through the district locator. And finally the comparable, which is the same plan in the last two years, because the spread inside a plan here is $450,000.

Families first, for the four bedrooms, the family room, the park and the schools, and often families moving up from Fountainwood, Hillrise or Lake Lindero who want the 1980s house without the Morrison Ranch price. Buyers priced out of Ranch South second, for whom Chateau Springs is the same decade’s house on a smaller lot at $250,000 less. Investors third, for the reasons set out under leasing. What the tract draws less often is the downsizer, because there is no single-level plan, and the buyer who wants a large lot, which is Morrison Ranch’s market.

The comparison that matters is Morrison Ranch, the other 1980s tract. Ranch South, 1983 to 1987, is 2,369- to 4,000-square-foot houses on lots around 10,200 square feet at a median of $1,770,000; East Meadows, 1979 to 1985, is 2,343- to 3,705-square-foot houses on lots around 7,300 square feet at about $1,527,500; the Highlands is a different market at $2,600,000. Chateau Springs is the Meadows product at the Meadows price with a smaller lot and a smaller fee. To the west, Fountainwood at $1,200,000 and Hillrise at about $1,032,000 are the 1970s alternatives, with smaller houses on larger and smaller lots respectively, and single-level plans that Chateau Springs does not have. Chateau Park next door is the attached entry at a median of $800,000.

Figures are from CSMAR MLS sales records for 2020 through mid-2026 as carried in this site’s listing feed.

For a buyer, confirm it is Chateau Springs and not Chateau Park before anything else, then read the plan off the square footage and accept that it is two-story. Brief the inspector on the 1980s list, ask for the permit history of any pool or addition, take the fee and the CC&Rs from the certification, and run the address through the Las Virgenes locator. Compare within a plan over the last two years, because the spread inside a plan is the whole question here.

For a seller, the comparable is the same plan, and the top of the record — $1,830,000, $1,803,000, $1,800,000 — is the larger plan on the larger lot, renovated. If the kitchen, the primary suite, the floors and the glass are done, price to those and say so; if not, price to the unrenovated sales of the same plan and do not spend on the footprint. Lead with the park, the bedroom count and the fee, and make sure the listing does not say Chateau Park.