Diamond Bar Real Estate

Monday, December 22, 2008

Diamond Bar House with City Lights View $730,000

Bed: 4
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 2,0,1
Sqft: 2,647
Lot SF: 6,098
YrBuilt: 1988

Description: Cul-de-sac premium location. Double door entry. High ceiling, large back yard with city View. This house has been remodeled recently. Must see to believe it.

Diamond Bar House with Walking Distance to School $400,000

Bed: 3
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 2
Sqft: 1,280
YrBuilt: 1962

Description: DRIVE BY ONLY, TENANT OCCUPIED NO SHOWINGS!!! Beautiful Home walking distance to Diamond Bar High and Evergreen Elementary Schools. Fully Landscaped and in move in condition! Newly painted interior and newly remodeled kitchen and bathrooms. simulated wood floors, enclosed patio and tuff shed storage, newer driveway, quiet neighborhood! DRIVE BY ONLY, TENANT OCCUPIED NO SHOWINGS!! DO NOT DISTURB!! Selling with Tenants.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Diamond Bar Short Sale House $985,000

Bed: 5
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 5
Sqft: 4,450
Lot SF: 8,500
YrBuilt: 1999
SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified

Description: Short sale approved for $985000! Over 4450 sq ft of spacious Living space. Lowest price in the Prestigious Diamond Crest Gated Community. Spectacular dramatic floor plan. The Grandest and Largest plan in Diamond Crest. Double doors lead into grand rotunda entryway with filled travertine flooring featuring custom marble medallion. Huge gourmet kitchen with all brand new Kitchen-Aid built-in stainless steel appliances maple cabinets complete with custom granite counter tops. Huge family room with built in glass door granite wrapped fireplace. 5 bedrooms and 5 baths two with balconies. 3 car attached split driveway garages. One Suite downstairs. Master suite with his and hers walk-in closets. Master bath has Jacuzzi tub, separate large shower stall complete with his and hers double vanities. Award winning Walnut Schools. Close to Ranch market/ 60 Fwy /Walking distance to South Point Middle School and Diamond Bar High School.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Diamond Bar House with View $1,650,000

Bed:	4
Bath(F,T,H,Q):	3,0,1

Sqft: 3,994
Lot SF: 135,210
YrBuilt: 1978
HOA: $215
SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified

Description: One of a kind single story house with a view. Barn/stables with 3 stalls. Useable lot, gentle slope, room for pool and tennis court. Master bedroom with a retreat area - 2 closets and a walk in closet. Bathrooms remodelled. Granite kitchen counter tops with built in refrigerator. Balcony off Master bedroom, breakfast area and lower area. Large garage with room for an RV. Garage has an exercise room. Garage has a room without a permit. There is a lower room with a bathroom without a permit but nicely done (seller purchased it this way). Huge family room with a fireplace. Built in BBQ and a remote control water fall in one of the patios. Must see this gorgeous house. Call for an appointment.

Diamond Bar Bank Owned Pool Home For Sale $398,900

Bed:	4
Bath(F,T,H,Q):	3

Sqft: 1,973
Lot SF: 8,910
YrBuilt: 1965

Description: Spacious Single Family Pool Home in Nice Diamond Bar Neibhborhood. Great 4 bedroom floorplan. Close to shopping and transportation. Bank Owned ( NOT A Short Sale ) Submit all offers with prequal letter and copy of deposit check.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Diamond Bar Bank Owned Property with Nice View $504,900

Bed:	5
Bath(F,T,H,Q):	3

Sqft: 2,091
Lot SF: 7,705
YrBuilt: 1989

Description: Rare find 5 Bedroom Single Family Residential property. Beautiful Pantera Park is right in front of the house. Beautiful view of green belt, good size fenced yard with great potential. One bedroom downstairs, Four upstairs. Desirable neighborhood. Bank owned property to be sold in "AS IS" and "AS SEEN" at the close of escrow.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Diamond Bar Short Sale View House with Walnut School District $530,000

Bed: 4
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 3
Sqft: 2,334
Lot SF: 7,830
YrBuilt: 1976

Description: APPROVED, APPROVED, APPROVED SHORT SALE! 2Story View House w/4BR/3BA and Bonus Room, Formal Living Room w/Cathedral Ceiling and Romantic Fireplace, Formal Dinning Room and Separated Family Room w/Wet Bar, 1BR&1BA Downstairs, Desirable Walnut School District, Easy Access to 57, 60Fwys.

Diamond Bar Custom Built Pool Home with City Lights and Mountain View $2,480,000

Bed: 6
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 5,1,1
Sqft: 6,000
Lot SF: 30,827
YrBuilt: 1999
HOA: $205
SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified

Description: Gorgeous Custom built home, Like NEW. Circular Drive Way. Double Glass Door Entry. High Ceiling, Crown molding, Custom window treatment, Marble Floor. 1suite&study on main floor. Double sided fireplace in Living Room & Formal Dining room. Custom Stone Light. Gourmet Kitchen, Granite Counter top, Built-in Refrigerator. 3 Suite upstairs, Master Bedroom has Retreat, fireplace & Walk-in Closet, Private View Balcony. Wrought Iron fens & staircase. Downstairs: Hardwood Floor, Bonus Room, Wet bar, Second kitchen, perfect for two family setting. 2BR(1suite), Large Exercise Room. Two side stairs to beautiful custom POOL & SPA, Professional Landscaping, different kind of Palm trees, Large Gazebo, Very good for Entertainment. Great View of Canyon, Mountain & City Lights...

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Diamond Bar Single Story Home For Sale $550,000

Bed: 4
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 2,
Sqft: 1,708
Lot SF: 8,476
YrBuilt: 1975

Description: Very pretty single story home*remodled kitchen with new cabinets/stainless steel appliances/granite counter tops*wood floor familyroom/kitchen floor/hall way*newer double pane windows*two bathrooms with unpolished style marble floor*cozy fireplace in livingroom*formal dining room*two car attached garage*double door entrance*one bed room used as den*covered patio in front yard and back yard*open and airy floor plans*nice landscapped* tile roof*must see to appreciate!

Diamond Bar Bank Owned Property with Pool $599,900

Bed: 5
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 3,1
Sqft: 2,880
Lot SF: 15,100
YrBuilt: 1983

Description: Spacious Single Family Pool Home in nice Diamond Bar Neighborhood. Great 3 bedroom floorplan with fireplace and A/C. Close to shopping and transportation. Bank Owned ( NOT A Short Sale ) . Submit all offers with prequal letter and copy of deposit check.

Diamond Bar House with Excellent Walnut School District $1,488,000

Bed: 4
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 4
Sqft: 4,779
Lot SF: 52,272
YrBuilt: 1986
HOA: $205
Elem: Evergreen
Midsch: Chaparral
Highsch: Diamond Bar

Description: The Custom Estate Built by Frank Piermarini in 24hr guard & gate community “The COUNTRY.” 4 bedrooms, 4 baths+ large bonus room. Open floor plan with double door entry. Hardwood entry & Prego floors. Large family room with wet bar and fireplace. Specious living room. Upgraded stained glass window in formal dining room. Large laundry room and indoor spa. Huge master suite w/ big walk-in closet and access to the deck. Cul-De-Sac St with circular driveway. Walnut School District.

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