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Real Estate in Bixby Knolls, Virginia Country Club and Historic California Heights Areas

Palatial Virginia Country Club homes are larger custom built homes from earlier decades when historic designs were popularized by prominent California architects. This is one of the few places in Long Beach which takes advantage of golf course views.

There are currently (August 2009) 63 houses and 17 condos listed for sale in the Bixby Knolls, California Heights, Bixby Terrace, New Bixby, Bixby Highlands, Los Cerritos, Ridgwood Heights, Country Club Manor,  and Virginia Country Club areas (zip code 90807).  This is a decrease in inventory from a total of 88 in May to 80 in August.

The bottom of the market price is increasing!

House for sale prices start at  $312,000 (higher than May), up to $2,995,000, with single family homes in the California Heights Historic District commonly priced in the mid-$400,000 up to $600,000.  Condos for sale are very affordable here, begin as low as $106,000 (higher than May) for a one-bedroom, and larger 2 bedrooms go up to $479,000. 

Please contact me, or feel free to look through the MLS property search engine for more properties.  It's a good time to buy and there are many buyer down payment and buyer assistance programs available, depending on your area of preferance and other qualifications.

Just call me to find out!

Residential Neighborhoods in Bixby Knolls, Virginia Country Club, California Heights, Los Cerritos

In modern times, this area was originally part of the 27,000 acre Spanish land grant to the 18th century Mexican soldier Manuel Nieto. The "knolls" are the "little hills" of Los Cerritos ranch land where the old rancho adobe, often involved in early historical events, is restored and open to the public today. 20th century excavations revealed ancient Indian artifacts. Its fascinating history includes many famous Southern California names: the Gabrielino Indians, the Bixbys, their cousins the Flints, John Temple or Don Juan Temple, Judge O'Melveny, Issiah Hellman, Don Manuel Dominguez, Abel Stearns, Pio Pico, the Verdugos, Colonel Hollister, the Mexican-American war and the Californios, cattle, sheep, the Cotas of Santa Barbara, and the evolution of six ranchos carved out of the Los Cerritos Rancho. Out of this ranchland grew six present-day municipalities, and the early area of Willmore City, now part of downtown Long Beach. After 1916, the last 3500 acres of the ranch were eventually subdivided into Bixby Knolls, California Heights, North Long Beach, and part of Signal Hill.

Early California Heights houses were Spanish style bungalows, Tudor Revival and California Bungalow styles. Oil discovery on neighboring Signal Hill spurred interest in early lot purchases. Today, this area is a historic district still typified by many of the 1920's Spanish style bungalows and tree-lined streets.

Close freeway access, the Long Beach Airport and convenient shops and businesses along Atlantic Ave., these residential areas are favored by young families whose children are within short driving or walking distance to elementary and middle schools.  

The architecture varies from one tract to another: Bixby Knolls and Virginia Country Club larger homes have been favored by well-known area architects beginning in the 1930's and later, including Hugh Davies, Kenneth Wing, Paul Tay, and Edward Killingsworth. There are many "mid-century" style homes, along with larger two-story Spanish, Tudor, Southern Colonial, and Craftsman.

The Los Cerritos Adobe, next to today's residential neighborhoods and a part of Southern California history.  John Temple in 1827 purchased the 27,000 acre Los Cerritos Rancho land from the heirs of Manuel Nieto who as a Spanish soldier received a land grant from the King of Spain. Jotham Bixby (d. 1916) arrived from Maine and in turn purchased the grant land from John Temple in 1866, and the Bixby family remains to the present day leaving its name throughout Long Beach.


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