Westlake Hills

Westlake Hills was planned the way the Westlake Village master plan intended every neighborhood to work: homes around a school and a park. Sierra Drive loops around Westlake Hills Elementary and Russell Park, and short courts branch off it on both sides. Every street is named for a mountain range or a river: Appalachian, Great Smokey, Panamint, Wasatch, Adirondack, Black Hills, Cumberland, Allegheny, Blue Ridge, Sawtooth, Medicine Bow, and the Salmon River, Bear River, Fall River and Wind River circles. The courts carry East and West or North and South prefixes depending on which side of the loop they are on.

The first homes, in 1970, went up on Panamint, Appalachian, Great Smokey and Wasatch courts. Adirondack, Black Hills, Cumberland and the River circles followed through 1973. The last stage, in 1977 and 1978, added Allegheny, Blue Ridge, Sawtooth and Medicine Bow courts with larger plans.

Six original plans are on file, all with Italian and Riviera names: the Carmel, Genoa, Monaco, Montego, Palermo and Portofino. They share a vaulted living room near the entry and a kitchen open to a family room across the back, with bedrooms either in a single-story wing or upstairs.

The most common sizes in recent sales are 1,462 and 1,699 square feet—single-story, three-bedroom, two-bath plans—and 2,251 and 2,637 square feet, two-story plans with four or five bedrooms. Many homes have been expanded, so measure a specific house rather than going by its plan.

Drawings on file for the tract. Other plans, elevations and options may have been offered.

Lots are level and fairly uniform, about 6,500 to 8,700 square feet. The courts have no through traffic. Homes on the south edge nearest the 101 hear the freeway; the interior courts are much quieter.

The Westlake Hills Property Owners Association is run by volunteers, and dues are about $40 a year. It reviews visible exterior changes through an architectural committee, publishes a newsletter and has helped pay for improvements at Russell Park. There is no pool, clubhouse or gate.

Westlake Hills Elementary, a Conejo Valley Unified school on Medicine Bow Court, is inside the neighborhood, and most homes are a few blocks from it. Older students go to Colina Middle School and Westlake High School. Confirm the assignment for a specific address with the district.

Russell Park, next to the school, is a Conejo Recreation and Park District park with a playground, a ball field backstop, picnic tables and a half-mile walking path.

The 101 is minutes away at Westlake Boulevard or Lindero Canyon Road. Thousand Oaks Boulevard leads west to the shops and offices of Thousand Oaks, and the lake and The Landing are a short drive south across the freeway.

Check for a Zinsco or Federal Pacific panel and, in some early-1970s homes, aluminum branch wiring. Homes that have not been repiped may still have galvanized supply lines. A sewer camera inspection is worth doing. Compare the permit history with the City of Thousand Oaks against any additions.

24 homes sold between December 2024 and August 2026, from $1,150,000 to $1,599,000, with a median of $1,388,000. Single-story homes are the most sought after: the 1,462-square-foot plan sold between $1,379,000 and $1,550,000, and the top sale, $1,599,000 in December 2024, was a remodeled 1,414-square-foot single-story on Great Smokey Court. Larger two-story homes of 2,250 to 2,640 square feet sold between $1,150,000 and $1,455,000, depending on condition.

Village Homes and Foxmoor, south of the freeway, are the other school-and-greenbelt tracts on the Ventura County side. Village Homes has a pool, tennis and a long greenbelt for about $270 a quarter, with a median of $1,402,500 over a similar period. Foxmoor has Westlake Elementary inside the tract and a median of $1,550,000. Westlake Hills has the lowest dues of the three and a school and park in the middle of the loop.