San Clemente Real Estate and Homes

About the time that its neighboring city to the north, Dana Point, was being developed, Ole Hanson, a former Seattle Oregon Mayor, designed a community that he named San Clemente after the island that lies off shore.  So, around 1925, the first homes in the San Clemente real estate market, known today as Ole Hanson 

Originals, were built.   These homes are Spanish style stucco homes with red tile roofs. As there were few, if any, jobs in the area as whole, most of the people who bought  homes in the San Clemente real estate market were either retirees or people buying vacation homes.

San Clemente real estate market continued on as a quiet beach front area until President Richard Nixon purchased  a Spanish mansion in the southern part of town known as Cotton’s Point.  This became the “Western White House” and San Clemente real estate was definitely now on the map. From the 1970s on, the town has grown but in a rather small town way. 

The 5 Freeway cuts right through San Clemente splitting the residential areas into the Ocean Side and the Hill Side of the freeway.  Many of the San Clemente real estate market's hillside homes homes have fantastic views of the Pacific Ocean, Seal Rock and Catalina Island.  Some even have views of Dana Point Harbor.  The San Clemente real estate market also has many ocean front homes in a variety of small communities. More recently, what is known as the "Back Country" has experienced rapid growth and the building of modern, new homes. This adds an entirely new dimension to the San Clemente Real Estate Market. 

San Clemente real estate market will continue to expand in the back country that borders Camp Pendleton and there are many opportunities to buy small, older homes and either expand or rebuild.  Many of the older vacation cottages that sat on prime land have already been re-developed making beautiful, luxury homes available on prime Pacific Ocean Coastal land. 

 
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