Agoura Hills

Agoura Hills is in Las Virgenes Unified, which also covers Calabasas, Hidden Hills and the Los Angeles County side of Westlake Village. It is one of the main reasons buyers choose the city.

• Elementary: Sumac, Willow and Yerba Buena
• Middle: Lindero Canyon Middle School
• High: Agoura High School

Oak Park Unified, just north over the county line, is a District of Choice, so Agoura Hills families can apply there too.

• Old Agoura: houses from across the last century on larger lots north of the freeway, many zoned for horses. They trade on land and lifestyle more than square footage.
• 1965 to 1979: the first tracts. Lake Lindero (1965–1977), Liberty Canyon (from 1965), Hillrise (1968–1972), Oak Valley (1970), Fountainwood (1973–1980) and Reyes Adobe (1978–1981).
• 1979 to 1989: the biggest wave. The four Morrison Ranch sections (1979–1988, about 1,200 houses), plus Oak View Ranch, Chateau Springs, Stonecrest, Tiffany Hills Estates and Peacock Ridge. Mostly two-story plans with four and five bedrooms.
• 1989 and later: very little inside the city beyond Griffin Parkside (1989). Heritage View Estates (1995–96) and the later sections of Tiffany Hills Estates are just outside the city limits. The newer custom and gated estates are outside the city limits, in Cornell, Medea Valley Estates, Malibu View Estates, Paramount Ranch Estates and Vintage at Hidden Park.
• Condos and townhomes: mostly 1970s and 1980s, spread across the city. The entry point into Agoura Hills and its schools.

Streets Gary has sold on in Agoura Hills

Hollowbrook Avenue · Calabria Drive · Middle Crest Drive · Park Colony Court · Jon Dodson Drive · Pisces Street · Alfonso Drive · Oakpath Drive · Stonecrest Drive · Barragan Street · Thousand Oaks Boulevard

Morrison Ranch is the largest single-family neighborhood in the city: about 1,200 houses in four sections built from 1979 to 1988 on the old ranch land north of the freeway. Plans run from about 2,300 square feet in the Meadows sections to nearly 5,900 in the Highlands, so “a Morrison Ranch comp” always needs a follow-up question about the section and the model.

• Morrison Highlands: 1983–1988, about 290 houses in the middle of the ranch, 3,833 to 5,902 square feet. The largest plans and the top of the ranch.
• Morrison East Meadows: 1979–1981, about 316 houses on the courts off Rustling Oaks and Saddlebrook Drive, just west of Kanan Road.
• Morrison Ranch South: 1983–1987, about 425 houses between Reyes Adobe Road and the Highlands.
• Morrison North Meadows: 1982 and 1986–1987, about 170 houses on Fountainwood Street and Kimberly Drive.

Each section has its own guide with the plans, lot sizes and recent sales.

The Ventura Freeway runs east to west through the city, and most of Agoura Hills sits north of it.

• North: nearly all of the single-family tracts, including Morrison Ranch, Lake Lindero, Fountainwood, Hillrise, Reyes Adobe, Oak View Ranch and Chateau Springs; Old Agoura’s horse property at the east end; Agoura High School; and most of the condos along Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Kanan Road.
• South: Liberty Canyon, Tiffany Hills Estates, Griffin Parkside and Heritage View Estates, the Agoura Road business corridor, and beyond the city limits the canyons of Cornell, Malibou Lake, and Triunfo and Lobo Canyon.

Interchanges at Reyes Adobe Road, Kanan Road, Chesebro Road and Liberty Canyon Road, plus Lindero Canyon Road on the Westlake Village line, make the crossing easy.

Attached homes are spread across the city: along Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Kanan Road (Town & Country, Meadow Ridge, Lakeview Villas), near Agoura High School (Annandale/Whispering Pines), along Canwood Street (Chateau Park, Oakview Gardens), at Lake Lindero, at the edge of Old Agoura (Agoura Country Townhomes) and in Liberty Canyon (Rondell, Liberty Canyon Townhomes). They are the most realistic way into Las Virgenes schools below the price of a detached house.

Before you commit, read the dues, the reserve study, any pending special assessment, the rental rules and the association’s insurance.

• Many of the 1970s and 1980s single-family tracts have no HOA, or only a small one. Each neighborhood guide lists the dues that sales have reported.
• Every condo and townhome community has an association covering exteriors, grounds and master insurance.
• Lake Lindero has its own association around the lake.
• Old Agoura is largely association-free; the city’s equestrian zoning sets the rules instead.
• The gated communities outside the city, Medea Valley Estates, Malibu View Estates, Paramount Ranch Estates and Vintage at Hidden Park, carry dues for their gates and roads. See the gated communities map.

Much of the open space around the city is National Park Service, state and conservancy land, so a street with no dues still comes with the trail network.

North of the freeway, Old Agoura is horse country inside the city limits: larger parcels, corrals, barns and riding trails that connect into Cheeseboro and Palo Comado canyons.

• Not every parcel is horse-permitted. Zoning, lot size and setbacks decide what you can keep.
• Trail access is not universal. Some properties connect directly and others do not, and equestrian buyers price the difference.
• Infrastructure differs. Septic systems and private roads are more common here than in the tracts. Answer those questions during the inspection period.

• Cheeseboro and Palo Comado canyons: National Park Service land immediately north, with wide fire roads through oak savanna for hiking, running and mountain biking.
• Paramount Ranch: the historic film location on Cornell Road, now National Park Service land with trails.
• Medea Creek, which runs south through the city from Oak Park toward Malibou Lake.
• City parks: Chumash Park, Forest Cove Park, Sumac Park and the neighborhood parks.
• The Backbone Trail and the routes south toward Malibu Creek State Park.

For many buyers coming from the Valley this is the deciding factor. Each neighborhood guide lists the parks closest to it.

• Woodland Hills and Warner Center: under ten miles, the shortest run of any Conejo Valley city.
• Thousand Oaks and the Amgen corridor: fifteen to twenty minutes outside peak.
• Malibu: Kanan Dume Road through the mountains to Point Dume, about twenty-five minutes.
• Downtown Los Angeles: about 35 miles, and a real commitment at rush hour.

The city has freeway interchanges at Reyes Adobe Road, Kanan Road, Chesebro Road and Liberty Canyon Road, with Lindero Canyon Road on the Westlake Village line. Inside the city almost everything is within ten minutes.

Agoura Hills is wrapped in open space on three sides and has lived through major wind-driven fires. Homes next to open space have an enforced annual brush-clearance obligation, and insurance availability and price vary address by address. Get quotes during the inspection period; it is the most common late-stage surprise here and it is avoidable. For sellers, current clearance and a clean insurance history remove an objection before a buyer raises it.

Thirteen sales across the city, from the Morrison tracts to the hillside streets and the downtown condos. The one below has its own page walking through the preparation, the marketing and the result.

28909 Hollowbrook AvenueAn Agoura Hills home prepared and brought to market with a targeted campaign.View the sale

See every Agoura Hills sale on the map →

Many Conejo Valley tracts of the 1970s and 1980s share builders and floor plans, so buyers who lived in one often recognize a layout in another, and a remodel that worked in one plan often works in the same plan elsewhere. The pricing does not transfer: similar plans sit in different school districts, two counties and different price bands, so a sale of “the same model” means little until you know which tract and town it was in.

The name comes from a man. Pierre Agoure, a sheep herder, settled here in 1871; when the post office needed a name in 1927, his was the one that stuck — respelled to Agoura along the way.

Before that it was briefly called Picture City, and for good reason. Paramount Ranch opened here in the 1920s and the studios never really left — Westerns, then television, then everything since. Standing on the ranch today you are looking at the same hills that have doubled for half of the American West on screen for a century.

Growth came with the freeway: Agoura began to fill in during the late 1960s, after the Ventura Freeway section of US 101 was built through the area. Agoura Hills incorporated on December 8, 1982, becoming the 83rd city in Los Angeles County.

Today it is a compact city of about 8 square miles and roughly 20,000 residents, sitting between the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains. Its official motto — "The Gateway to the Santa Monica Mountains" — is one of the few municipal slogans that is simply accurate.

Yes. The City of Agoura Hills is in Los Angeles County. Homes in the canyons south of the city often carry an Agoura mailing address but sit in unincorporated county territory, with county rules and permits.

Las Virgenes Unified, and the high school is Agoura High School. Confirm the elementary and middle school for the exact address with the district.

Old Agoura, on the north side of the freeway at the east end of town, is the equestrian neighborhood, with horse-zoned lots and trail access.

Every townhome and condo community does. Many of the 1970s and 1980s single-family tracts do not, and Old Agoura generally does not. Each neighborhood guide lists the dues.

Very little. The city is essentially built out, so most buyers are choosing among homes from the 1960s through the 1990s.