Buying a Home in Rancho Santa Fe

For those who like a little more luxury in their lifestyle a home in idyllic Rancho Santa Fe, California is just the ticket.

This exclusive location is the favoured home to the super-rich and the famous, as a quick scan through the list of past and present residents of Rancho Santa Fe’s luxury houses, mansion and developments will show. It is also the highest income community (with at least 1000 households) in the United States. It’s zip-code – 92067 – is also listed in Forbes Magazine as being the second most expensive zip-code in 2006.

Rancho Santa Fe California Real Estate

Rancho Santa Fe properties have to be designed within strict restrictions. This means that many of the houses of Rancho Santa Fe cannot be seen from the road-side, due to the fact that they sit within large land-scaped grounds and gardens.

Apart from the downtown area, which exists aroung the intersection of Linea del Cielo/Paseo Delicias and La Granada/Via de Santa Fe, the region is nearly exclusively residential – the only other buildings being Golf Clubs and Country Clubs.

All of this means that the entire region of Rancho Santa Fe is a beautiful part of the world to live in, and this makes Rancho Santa Fe Real Estate highly sought after. Rancho Santa Fe houses therefore makes excellent investment properties.

The prices of homes for sale in Rancho Santa Fe range from condos for sale from just over $500,000 to elegant mansions priced at well over $8,000,000 in the more sought-after sub-divisions.

Rancho Santa Fe Homes Information

There were 1,204 households at the time of the 2000 census, for which the median income was in excess of $200,000. The population is broken down as follows:

– 25.9% under the age of 18

– 2.9% from 18 to 24

– 17.7% from 25 to 44

– 33.0% from 45 to 64

– 20.5% who were 65 years of age or older