Country Club Estates was laid out in the late 1980s as the estate section of North Ranch: large custom lots on the hills above the country club, behind a guard gate on Lakeview Canyon Road, sold to owners who built individually. The recorded sales date the houses from 1988 to 2013, and the newest of them are among the largest.

The developer of the subdivision is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. What the record shows is a community of about 209 parcels, most of them one to three acres and some to ten, with houses of 5,372 to 16,702 square feet, a guard gate, greenbelts and security carried as the amenities, and dues that listings report at $1,850 to $2,950 a quarter.

Every house is individually designed, so the record is a set of estates rather than plans. The top is $13,000,000 on Woodland Grove Court in May 2026 for a 9,895-square-foot single-story house built in 2013 on six acres, and $12,400,000 on Lakeview Canyon Road in June 2024 for a 12,684-square-foot five-bedroom on 2.3 acres. The bottom is $3,052,500 on Country Valley Road in September 2020 for a 5,372-square-foot five-bedroom and $3,210,000 on Deerhaven Court in May 2020 for a 7,152-square-foot single-story house. Eleven of the twenty-four are five-bedroom houses and nine are six-bedroom; seven of the twenty-four are single story, at a median of $5,192,000.

No plan sheet for Country Club 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 5,372 to 16,702 square feet, median 7,247, with five bedrooms in eleven of the 24, six in nine, four in three, and seven of the 24 recorded sales are single story.

The community runs up from the gate on Lakeview Canyon Road along Country Valley Road, Westbend Road and Windhaven Drive to Summit View Drive at the top, with the courts — Deerhaven, Royal Vista, Woodland Grove, Oak Mirage — and Hunter Valley Lane and Vista Ridge Lane off them. Lakeview Canyon Road itself carries seven of the twenty-four sales. The lots run from about one acre to ten, median about 1.5 acres, and the view lots at the top of the hill and the flat acreage at the bottom are the two ends of the record.

The first reason is the land: one to ten acres behind a guard gate, ten minutes from the freeway, which exists nowhere else in North Ranch. The second is the guard gate itself, staffed rather than coded. The third is the range: from a $3,000,000 house on an acre to a $13,000,000 estate on six, all inside one community with one set of rules. The fourth is the club below the hill and the trails above it.

2026 sales report the fee at $2,950 a quarter (about $983 a month); older listings reported as little as $1,850 a quarter. The fee carries the guard gate and its staffing, the private streets, the greenbelts and common landscaping, and an architectural review of new construction and exteriors. The North Ranch Country Club is a separate private club; the dues do 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 below the gate, and the North Ranch Center at Kanan Road and Lindero Canyon Road is five minutes away for groceries and errands. The open-space trails begin at the top of the hill. 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.

Lakeview Canyon Road runs south to Westlake Boulevard and the Ventura Freeway in about ten minutes. 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 June 2026, 11 homes in the tract sold through the MLS, at prices from $4,535,000 to $13,000,000 and a median of $5,445,000. Since May 2020, 24 sales ran from $3,052,500 to $13,000,000 with a median of $5,325,000. The top of the record is $13,000,000 on Woodland Grove Court in May 2026 for a 9,895-square-foot six-bedroom; $12,400,000 on Lakeview Canyon Road in June 2024 for a 12,684-square-foot five-bedroom. The bottom is $3,210,000 on Deerhaven Court in May 2020; $3,052,500 on Country Valley Road in September 2020. Single-story homes account for seven of the 24 sales, at a median of $5,192,000.

Twenty-four sales in six years across a range this wide is a set of individual transactions rather than a trend. What the record supports is a floor near $3,000,000 for a 5,000- to 7,000-square-foot house on an acre, a middle from $4,500,000 to $6,000,000 where most of the sales sit, and a top that reset twice: $12,400,000 in June 2024 and $13,000,000 in May 2026, both for the largest houses on the largest parcels. Gary Jacobs keeps the full sale-by-sale history and can say where a given estate sits in it.

No lease is recorded in the MLS sources this guide draws on, so it does not quote a rent. Estate leasing here is occasional and private.

These homes date from 1988 to 2013, 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. 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 1980s 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 estate communities of the Conejo Valley. Sherwood Country Club in Lake Sherwood, 1992 to 2024, is 3,025- to 9,304-square-foot houses behind guard gates with a Jack Nicklaus course at a median of $5,100,000. High Country, the North Ranch tract on the ridge above the club, is 4,860- to 13,000-square-foot houses on 1.6 to 2.6 acres at a median of $3,800,000 with a fee of a few hundred dollars a quarter. Hidden Valley Estates, off Potrero Road, is 4,760- to 6,798-square-foot houses on two acres at a median of $3,550,000. Country Club Estates trades with Sherwood at the median and above everything else in North Ranch.

Start with the parcel: the title report for easements, the county for fire mapping and any geologic hazard overlay, and an insurance quote early, because hillside acreage prices differently. Then the association package: the fee, the reserves for the gate and the private streets, and the architectural rules for any addition or rebuild. Then the house, individually built and individually inspected, with a geotechnical engineer on any slope and the pool and outbuildings checked against the permit history. Then patience: at this level most sales begin privately.

Estate buyers first, comparing the community with Sherwood and choosing the freeway side and the shorter drive. Buyers relocating second, for whom a guard-gated acre in the Conejo Valley district is the brief. Owners moving up within North Ranch third, from the custom streets below the gate.

For a buyer, start with the title report and the county record for the parcel, take the association package from the disclosures before the inspection, and brief the inspector for a custom house of its year on hillside acreage. Pull the permit history of the house, the pool and every outbuilding from the county. Confirm the school assignment for the exact address.

For a seller, there is no plan comparable; the comparable is the parcel and the house together, and the top of the record — $13,000,000 — is the newest house on the largest parcel. Price to the parcel, say the acreage, the guard gate and the school assignment in the first lines of the listing, and let the condition argue for the top of the band.