Diamond Bar Real Estate: 2011

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Diamond Bar Country Estate with Swimming Pool $1,168,000

Bed: 4
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 3,0,1,0
Sqft (Src): 3,674 (Assessor's Data)
$/Sqft: $318
Ac/LotSqft (Src): 1.40/60,885
YrBuilt: 1979/ASR

HOA: $205/Monthly
View: City Lights, Mountain, Panoramic

Entry Location: Ground Level With Steps
SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified
Elem: EVERGREEN
Midsch: CHAPARRAL
Highsch: DIAMOND BAR HS

Description: Cozy, sweet home nestled in a great location with beautiful, wonderful views within 'the Country Estates', easy access to the Grand Gate, yet very private.Sparkling city lights and mountain view, very panoramic. Home has 4 bedrooms + office (can be 5th room), relaxing ambiance, a spacious bonus room, pristine maintained interiors, newer wood flooring, newer windows and doors, newer roll-up garage door, newer paint, newer kitchen with Corian counter tops. Big patio, flat front and big back yard with a relaxing pool and playground, grassy yard, deep driveway, house stands above street level, a lot of privacy yet convenient. Front door facing south & Garage facing East. Beautiful tree shades. Very comforting home for family life. Great potential!! Come see and appreciate!Owner bought bigger home, motivated, make offer!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Diamond Bar Country Estate Custom View Home For Sale $1,688,000

Bed: 5
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 4,0,0,0
Sqft: 4,156/A
$/Sqft: $406
Lot SQ: 56,400
YrBuilt: 1988/ASS

HOA: $205/Monthly

SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified
Elem: Castle Rock
Midsch: S.Pointe
Highsch: DBHS

Description: The Country Estate Custom view home built by Frank Piermarini in 1988,Remodeled with quality work in 2002 and 2007. High ceiling entry,Newer Windows/French doors,newer wood flooring and custom carpeting,trendy paint colors, crown moldings. Newer stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops, open and spacious floor plan, fireplaces in Living room and master suite. all bedrooms are very spacious. Downstairs bedroom is used as office, downstairs bathroom has opening to back yard for convenience while use swimming pool. Big Master suite has panoramic view through large open glass windows, Spa Tub,walk-in closet,fireplace and sitting area. Jack and Jill junior suites have spacious room sizes and great set up for private baths. Bonus room upstairs can be 5th bedroom. Formal dining room w/chandelier, open kitchen with breakfast nook, Family room is very spacious, all have open view to the sky and mountains and green woods. 4 car garage. Usable lot beyond pool fence, can develop and expand for more amenities...... To see to appreciate.

Features
Roof: Spanish Tile
Pool: Association, Community Pool, Private, Heated with Gas, Gunite
Heat: Central Furnace
Utilities: Electricity - On Property, Sewer Connected & Paid, Telephone - On Property, Water District

Eat Area: Breakfast Nook, Formal Dining Room
FirePlace: Dining Room, Living Room, Master Bedroom
HOA: Pool, Playground, Tennis, Sport Court, Horse Trails, Club House, Recreational Multipurpose Room, Meeting Room, Clubhouse Paid, On Site Security Paid, Dues Paid Monthly, Pet Rules, Pets Permitted, Onsite Property Management, Guard, Security, Controlled Access

Style: Mediterranean
Lot/Com: Curbs, Sewer, Lot-Level/Flat, Level with Street, Front Yard, Back Yard, Fenced, Gated Community, Gated With Guard, Guarded, 24 Hour Security, Horse Property, Private Road, Paved Street, Lot Over 40000 Sqft

View: Canyon, Mountain, Panoramic, Pool, Trees/Woods

Parking: Driveway, Garage, Direct Garage Access, Garage - Two Door, Garage Door Opener, On Site
Structure: Turnkey, Updated/Remodeled, Termite Clearance, Custom Built, Open Floor Plan, Double Pane Windows, Cathedral Ceilings, High Ceilings (9 Feet+), Two Story Ceilings, Double Door Entry, Main Floor Bedroom, Kitchen Island, Pantry, Faces North

Exterior: Stucco
Laundry: Individual Room
Interior: Crown Moldings, Built-Ins, Custom Window Covering, French/Mullioned Windows, Stained Glass Window, French Doors, Sliding Glass Door(s), Granite Counters, Remodeled Kitchen, Smoke Detector, Gas Water Heater

Rooms: Master Suite, Dressing Area, Walk-In Closet, Bonus, Entry, Separate Family Room, Jack & Jill, Living Room, Study/Office, Walk-In Pantry
Appliances: Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Freezer, Garbage Disposal, Trash Compactor, Microwave, Gas/Elec Dryer Hook Up
Floor: Wall-To-Wall Carpet, Hardwood

Friday, April 01, 2011

Diamond Bar Country Estate with City Lights View $2,680,000

Bed: 5
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 3,0,1,0
Sqft: 7,005/A
$/Sqft: $383
Lot SF: 104,104
YrBuilt: 1982

Pool: In Ground
HOA: $205/Monthly

Stories: Two Level
Entry Location: Ground Level

SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified
Elem: CASTLEROCK
Midsch: S.POINTE
Highsch: DIAMOND BAR HIGH

Description: Beautiful Tudor Estate in Prestigious Guard-gated Community “The Country”. Nestled high in the hills with spectacular city light view. Circular driveway with landscaped front yard. High vaulted ceiling with skylight. Gorgeous floor plan with spacious living space features 5 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. Fireplaces in both living room and family room. Wooden crown molding and French door throughout. House has separate formal dining room, recreation room, Library, office room and bonus room with full size professional wet bar. Tile kitchen has center island, breakfast nook, walk-in pantry, built-in refrigerator, double ovens and trash compactor. Large master suite with balcony access that leads to backyard. Huge walk-in closet, steam room and jet bathtub in Master room. Spacious, manicured backyard with swimming pool, spa and built-in BBQ Grill. The professionally decorated interior gives this home a dramatic appeal that any discriminating buyer would appreciate.

Diamond Bar City

Diamond Bar City History

Diamond Bar as with many Southern California communities, Diamond Bar's recorded history began with a Mexican land grant. On March 30, 1840, Governor Juan Alvarado deeded 4,340 acres, which included Brea Canyon and the eastern Walnut Valley, to Jose de la Luz Linares, who founded Rancho Los Nogales, or Ranch of the Walnut Trees. Linares died in 1847, and his widow sold a choice portion of the ranch to Ricardo Vejar for $100 in merchandise, 100 calves, and the assumption of her late husband's debts. Vejar already owned the Rancho San Jose to the east (now Pomona), and by acquiring the rest of Rancho Los Nogales over the next ten years, became the fifth wealthiest landowner in Los Angeles County, with over 10,000 acres.

A community icon...The Windmill can still be seen at the Diamond Bar Towne Center)

Unfortunately, Vejar's luck did not last. When the United States government took over California and resurveyed the old land grants, he ended up with only 464 acres. Then the great drought of the 1860's forced most of the area ranchers to borrow money to feed their cattle. Vejar had been trading with two Los Angeles merchants, Isaac Schlesinger and Hyman Tischler, and they loaned him $600 for supplies at an interest rate of eight percent per month. When the note, with compounded interest, was finally called in for over $28,000, Vejar couldn't pay, and his property passed to Schlesinger and Tischler in 1864.

The Rancho Los Nogales did not prosper under its new owners, and they were surrounded by hostile neighbors who remained loyal to Vejar. In 1866, they sold the ranch to Louis Phillips for $30,000, bringing his holdings to over 12,000 acres. Phillips sold a portion of the ranch to WiIliam Rubettom, who opened up a tavern and overland stage station for the Butterfield route near where the Orange Freeway (57) now crosses Pomona Boulevard. He called the community "Spadra," after his hometown in Arkansas, and this became the first named settlement in the Diamond Bar area.

In 1873, the Rancho Los Nogales was sold again, this time to Wilson Beach and George Butler. After that, the property became quite fragmented as parcels were sold off to many different owners. But in 1918, Frederich E. Lewis bought up most of the original Rancho Los Nogales again, and he registered the Brand of Diamond Bar with the California Department of Agriculture. Lewis sold the Diamond Bar Ranch to the Bartholome family in 1943, and they continued to raise cattle on it for the next thirteen years.

An aerial view of Diamond Bar in the 1970's ...

In 1956, the Diamond Bar Ranch looked much as it did in 1840, with its golden hills peppered by green stands of oak and walnut trees, and grazed by large herds of cattle. The changes of the previous century were nothing, however, compared to the plans that the Transamerica Corporation had for Diamond Bar. In that year, they paid $10,000,000 for 8,000 acres of Brea Canyon, and they master-planned a community that would eventually become home to some 50,000 people. The first model homes were built at the north end of town in 1960, and a development "boom" had begun that continues today.

Today's Diamond Bar is a young, upscale residential community of about 60,000, situated among the meandering hills and valleys of Brea Canyon. Located at the junction of the Orange (57) and Pomona (60) freeways, Diamond Bar is central to all of the Los Angeles basin. A twenty-five mile radius encompasses Pasadena, downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach, Irvine and Riverside. Inside that radius, can be found such attractions as Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, Anaheim and Dodger Stadiums, the theaters of Los Angeles' Civic Center, the Rose Bowl and the Coliseum, the Santa Anita and Los Alamitos race tracks, the Mt. Baldy ski slopes and all of the Orange County beaches. The Ontario International Airport is only twenty-five minutes away, giving Diamond Bar residents an attractive alternative to Los Angeles International Airport. A two-hour drive lands you beside the waters of Lake Arrowhead, or in the snowy mountains of Big Bear. Whether you prefer the hills and canyons in the city, the nearby mountains, the sun on the surf, or the desert, Diamond Bar places you at the center of the active Southern California life-style.

All desired services can be conveniently found in Diamond Bar's shopping and business centers. The Diamond Bar Golf Course has 18 beautiful and challenging holes, and the Los Angeles Royal Vista Golf Course is just down the road. Diamond Bar's parks offer residents more than 80 acres of recreational facilities. Mt. San Antonio College and California Polytechnic University, Pomona are located at the north edge of town, while California State University, Fullerton is just ten minutes to the south.

Diamond Bar, CA

Top 100 rank: N/A^C
Population: 59,700

Financial
	City stats	Best places avg.
Median family income (per year)	$84,173	$90,316
Family purchasing power (annual, cost-of-living adjusted)	$69,051	$82,867
Sales tax	8.30%	6.74%
State income tax rate (highest bracket)	9.30%^I	6.38%
State income tax rate (lowest bracket)	1.00%^I	2.74%
Auto insurance premiums (Average for the state)	$2,076	$2,121
Job growth % (2000-2006)	9.57%	13.41%
Housing
	City stats	Best places average
Median home price	$583,825	$359,352
Average property taxes (2006)	$3,730	$3,585


Education
	City stats	Best places average
Colleges, universities and professional schools (within 30 miles)	49	29
Junior colleges and technical institutes (within 30 miles)	55	18
Test scores reading (% above/below state average)	66.7%	20.1%
Test scores math (% above/below average)	52.0%	24.8%
% students attending public/private schools (located within town limits)	97.0/3.0	91.1/8.9
Quality of life
	City stats	Best places average
Air quality index* (% of days AQI ranked as good)	32.1%	77.3%
Personal crime incidents (per 1,000)	2	13
Property crime incidents (per 1,000)	15	206
Median commute time (in minutes)	30.7	23.1
% population with commute 45 mins. or longer	31.9%	15.6%
% population walk or bike to work	0.8%	2.7%

Health*
	City stats	Best places average
Has health plan (% of residents)	83.2%	90.5%
Body mass index (avg. for residents)	27	27
Diabetes rates (% of residents diagnosed)	7.3%	9.3%
Hypertension rates (% of residents diagnosed)	28.4%	30.6%
Elder-care facilities^**	263	107
Meet the neighbors
	City stats	Best places average
Median age	37.0	36.8
Completed at least some college (% of residents)	72.9%	72.4%
Married	58.6%	60.8%
Divorced	6.7%	8.0%
Racial diversity index (100 is national average; higher numbers indicate greater diversity)	428.6	59.2
Amount spent on vacations (domestic and foreign, household avg. per year)	$9,056	$8,250

*County data
**Elder-care services refer to skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. Data from Total Living Choices.
(C) Cities with populations greater than 50,000 were not eligible for this year's Best Places to Live list.

(I) Income tax notes:
17 states have statutory provision for automatic adjustment of tax brackets, personal exemption or standard deductions to the rate of inflation. Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio indexes the personal exemption amounts only.
For joint returns, the taxes are twice the tax imposed on half the income.
Tax credits.
An additional 1% tax is imposed on taxable income over $1 million

Estimated median household income in 2005: $78,800 (it was $68,871 in 2000)

Diamond Bar	$78,800
California:	$53,629

Estimated median house/condo value in 2005: $564,100 (it was $245,800 in 2000)

Diamond Bar	$564,100
California:	$477,700

Diamond Bar Real Estate