Diamond Bar Real Estate

Friday, March 06, 2009

Diamond Bar House with Mountain View $1,398,000

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

Sqft: 4,779
Lot SF: 52,400
YrBuilt: 1986
HOA: $205
Lot/Com Gated With Guard, Horse Property, Horse Property Improved

Description: Custom Built by Frank Piermarini,circular Driveway,finished in1987,hardwood entry & pergo floors,open floor plan,huge family rm with wet bar,spacious living rm,big office,big bonus rm,large master w/big walk-ins and sitting area,big laundry,indoor spa,2 fireplaces,ceiling fans,chandeliers,very formal large dining room,extensive decks,gentle slope with nice green trees,Catalina ocean breeze,room for tennis ct. or horses,private and quiet street,great curb appeal,big frontage. City permit shows 4,779 S.F. Measured approx.5100 S.F.

Diamond Bar House with City Lights and Mountain View $1,260,000

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

Sqft: 2,670
Lot SF: 46,173

YrBuilt:	1978
Style:	Spanish
Compx:	the Country

HOA: $205
SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified

Description: In The country Estate,Totally remodeled inside out between 2006 and 2007, re roofed, re stuccoed, all new appliances and bathrooms,new flooring including designers' marble and colored stone, hardwood floors,new carpeting, new paint with trendy colors, new windows and doors, new hard scape including fountain, built-in BBQ counter in yard, spacious, open, with gorgeous city lights and mountain view, big yard for entertainment, room for tennis and pool. Big balconies upstairs, 3 fireplaces, sweet and cozy, hard to find perfect condition for the size of the home in the Country Estate.

Diamond Bar House For Sale $389,000

Bed: 3
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 2
Sqft: 1,346
Lot SF: 8,032
YrBuilt: 1964
HOA: $36

Description: REDUCED!! !! REDUCED!! REDUCE!! Nice Cozy3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom Home In Great Area Of Diamond Bar. This Home Has A Very Nice Floor Plan Nice Big Living-room And Cozy Fire Place In Kitchen. Community Club House Includes Pool, Tennis Courts,and Game Room. Home Is Vacant . To Be Sold In As Is Condition. Show And Sell…

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Diamond Bar House with Walking Distance to School $459,000

Bed: 4
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 2
Sqft: 1,288
Lot SF: 8,480
YrBuilt: 1962
Stories: One Level
SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified

Description: Gorgeous remodelled home from top to bottom! New open kitchen with recessed lighting, engineered wood flooring and attached enclosed large laundry room with tile. Bright living room with fireplace in a great room design. All new windows, flooring, ceilings, fixtures, appliances and more. Full copper plumbing. The perfection continues outside–the front and backyard landscaping is manicured and set for easy maintenance with automatic sprinklers. Walking distance to award winning Walnut School District elementary and high schools.

Monday, March 02, 2009

Diamond Bar View Home with Walking Distance to School $725,000

Bed: 4
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 3
Sqft: 2,796
Lot SF: 10,240
YrBuilt: 1986
Style: Contemporary
Stories: Two Level
SchDist: Walnut Valley Unified

Description: Sharp View home in South Pointe, Walnut School Dist and walking distance to South Pointe Elem School. great floor plan with wood flooring and plantation shutters throughout. formal living room with vaulted ceiling, formal dining room, spacious open kitchen and breakfast area, huge family room. large master bedroom with retreat area. 3 car garage now used as a 2 car garage with office.

Roof: Tile
Pool: None
Heat: Forced Air
Utilities: Water District, Sewer Connected & Paid
Eat Area: Formal Dining Room, In Kitchen
FirePlace: Family Room
HOA:
Style: Contemporary
Lot/Com Sidewalks, Sewer
View: City Lights, Hills
Parking: Direct Garage Access, Garage Door Opener
Structure: Turnkey, Skylights, Cathedral Ceilings, Double Door Entry
Exterior: Stucco
Laundry: Individual Room
Interior: Custom Window Covering, Window Shutters
Rooms: Dressing Area, Entry, Family Room, Living Room, Master Bedroom, Study/Office
Appliances: Dishwasher, Garbage Disposal
Floor: Ceramic Tile, Hardwood

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Diamond Bar Single House with City Lights and Mountain View $419,9,00

Bed: 3
Bath(F,T,H,Q): 1,2
Sqft: 2,033
Lot SF: 7,330
YrBuilt: 1965
HOA: $36

Description: PRICED RIGHT FOR QUICK SELL. Mountain and City Lights View. 3 Bedroom 2.75 Bath. Newer Stain Glass Oak Door. High Ceiling in Living Room w/ Fireplace. Formal Dining Room has Chandelier, Tile Floor in Kitchen. Breakfast area. 3/4 Bath off Family Room. This is a Tri-Level House. Master Bedroom has Private Bath. Spacious Balcony. Professional Landscaping in Backyard. Cul-De-Sac Street. Seller will Give Some Carpet Allowance.

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