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The area known today as Mission Viejo was once simply a parcel of a vast California Rancho that was formed in the late 1880s and stretched from Camp Pendleton in San Diego County to Trabuco and Aliso Creek in Orange County.  The beginning of what we know today as the Mission Viejo real estate market began fairly recently in 1964 when the O’Neill family and partners established the Mission Viejo Company and started to build the 10,000 acre planned community.

At one time the new homes that were being built in Mission Viejo were so desirable that prospective buyers camped out overnight to be first in line to buy when the sales office opened. 

The original Rancho, called Rancho Mission Viejo, got its name from the San Juan Capistrano Mission located in the neighboring town.  There was an original mission that was abandoned early on in the development phase.  Some think the early location was near or in what is now Mission Viejo and others think must have been closer to Dana Point because Richard Dana in Two Years Before the Mast mentions seeing the dome from the harbor, but nobody knows for sure where it was located. 

Mission Viejo real estate values are enhanced by is location in the rolling hills just back from the southern California coast.  As so many other areas in southern California developed in a hodge-podge sort of a way, residents loved the Mission Viejo ambiance with tree lined residential streets separated from the commercial and industrial areas.  Not part of the original Master Plan but certainly valuable additions are the Mission Viejo Lake and Saddleback College. The town includes a major hospital, excellent shopping and is close by theaters and a new opera house in Costa Mesa.  Mission Viejo is located within the Capistrano Valley Unified School District.

Mission Viejo residents show a great deal of Pride of Ownership.  The neighborhoods, mostly single-family residences,  are well maintained and the city is listed as the 4th safest city in the U.S.  As a Mission Viejo real estate professional, it is always a delight to show prospective buyers around this clean and well maintained city.