Irvine Neighborhoods

How Irvine is organized

Irvine is built as a series of master-planned villages, and that structure does more work than a neighborhood name usually does. A village determines the era of construction, whether a Mello-Roos special tax applies and for how long, the association structure, the amenity set, and in most cases the school attendance area. Two homes of similar size and condition can price very differently across a village boundary.

Citywide, the median Irvine home closed at $1,510,000 over the last twelve months, at 96.4% of its original asking price, in a median of 29 days from listing to accepted offer, across 2,056 closed sales. Newer construction runs higher: homes built in 2010 or later closed at a median of $1,700,000.

A note on village-level numbers

We publish village figures only where there are enough sales to mean something, and we state the sample size every time. Irvine's newer villages have very little resale history — many owners are still the original buyers — so a twelve-month median in those villages can rest on two or three transactions. Where that is the case we report the full recorded history instead and say so.