Mission Viejo Real Estate

Mission Viejo Homes for Sale

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223 homes for sale in Mission Viejo right now. In the last 90 days through October 21, 2026, 226 homes sold at a median price of $1,217,500, up 1.7% from a year earlier, after a median 17 days on the market.

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About Mission Viejo

Mission Viejo is a master-planned city on the floor and lower slopes of the Saddleback Valley in southern Orange County, California, with Lake Forest to the north, Laguna Hills and Laguna Niguel to the west, and San Juan Capistrano to the south. It was built largely between the late 1960s and 1980 from Donald Bren’s Mission Viejo Company plan that put roads in the valleys and homes on the hills. The 2020 census counted 93,653 residents across roughly 17.7 square miles, and the city incorporated in March 1988. Its centerpiece is Lake Mission Viejo, a 124-acre private recreational lake completed in 1978 with two sand swim beaches and a boating program reserved for member households. Housing ranges from original-core ranch and Spanish-style tracts to lake neighborhoods and guard-gated hillside communities, served by two districts, Saddleback Valley Unified and Capistrano Unified. Realatrends, a full-service Orange County brokerage since 1983 with $1B+ in closed sales, lists current Mission Viejo homes and recent sales.

Whether you are weighing Mission Viejo homes for sale against neighbors like Lake Forest and Rancho Santa Margarita or narrowing a search to the lake neighborhoods, the sections below cover the practical details that move price and day to day life here: the two school districts, lake membership mechanics, HOA structures, and current market data.

Location and Access

Mission Viejo is roughly 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Interstate 5 runs along the city’s western flank with interchanges at Alicia Parkway, La Paz Road, Oso Parkway, and Crown Valley Parkway, and the 73 toll road peels off the 5 at the city’s southern edge for the fastest run toward Newport Beach. John Wayne Airport (SNA) is 20 to 25 minutes northwest via the 5 off peak. The 241 toll road sits a short drive east via Oso Parkway or Santa Margarita Parkway. Laguna Beach, where the Realatrends office is located, is 12 to 14 miles west: about 25 minutes via El Toro Road and Laguna Canyon Road, or via Crown Valley Parkway to Pacific Coast Highway. Metrolink’s Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo station, off Crown Valley Parkway at the southern edge of the city, carries commuter rail on the Orange County and Inland Empire Orange County lines.

Housing and Architecture

Mission Viejo built out in phases across four decades, and the housing stock maps cleanly to those phases:

• Original core (late 1960s through 1980): California ranch and Spanish style tract homes from the Mission Viejo Company build out, concentrated around Mission Viejo High School, the country club, and the La Paz Road corridor. Single story floor plans are easier to find here than anywhere else in the city, and prices typically run below the citywide median.
• Lake neighborhoods (between Alicia Parkway and Olympiad Road): condominiums, single family tracts, and custom homes ringing the lake, which stretches roughly a mile end to end. Lake Mission Viejo Association membership covers roughly 25,000 homes (lakemissionviejo.org, 2026) and runs with the property, transferring automatically at sale (homesbyverso.com, 2026).
• Pacific Hills (south Mission Viejo, built 1990 to 1998): Mediterranean architecture with stucco exteriors, tile roofs, and arched entries. Floor plans run 1,105 to 3,520 square feet, with many homes on cul de sacs and single loaded streets (whitestonere.com, 2026).
• Painted Trails (northeast corner): four tracts, Copperstone, Talaverde, Magdalena, and Sienna Ridge, in Mediterranean and Spanish styles, laid out around parks and walking trails near the open space on the city’s eastern edge (whitestonere.com, 2026).
• Stoneridge (Stone Ridge Gallery): a guard gated community on a ridge above the lake, with 24 hour staffed entry and single family homes of roughly 2,500 to over 4,000 square feet, many with views toward Lake Mission Viejo and the Saddleback ridgeline (whitestonere.com, 2026).

HOA obligations vary tract by tract: the 1990s hillside communities operate master and sub associations, Stoneridge adds gate and security costs, and any lake eligible home carries the Lake Mission Viejo Association assessment, which cannot be separated from the property (homesbyverso.com, 2026). Always request the current CC&Rs and HOA disclosure package as part of due diligence on any specific address.

Condos and Townhomes Across Mission Viejo

Condominium tracts sit throughout the city, including among the neighborhoods ringing the lake between Alicia Parkway and Olympiad Road, where they share streets with single-family tracts and custom homes. Where a condo sits determines what it carries, because lake-eligible homes pay into the Lake Mission Viejo Association whether they are attached or detached, so the recreation access travels with the address rather than the housing type. The condominium tracts sit well under the citywide median, which the lake-adjacent customs and guard-gated hillside communities pull upward.

Schools in Mission Viejo

Mission Viejo splits between two districts: Saddleback Valley Unified generally serves the northern and central neighborhoods, Capistrano Unified the southern end. The dividing line does not follow major streets in any obvious way, so confirm the district and school assignment for any specific address before a purchase decision. Schools serving the city include:

• Mission Viejo High School (Saddleback Valley USD, grades 9 to 12, about 1,566 students)
• Trabuco Hills High School (Saddleback Valley USD, located inside the city’s northern limits, about 2,475 students)
• Capistrano Valley High School (Capistrano USD, grades 9 to 12, about 1,991 students)
• Newhart Middle School (Capistrano USD, grades 6 to 8)

Parks, Walkability and Amenities

The Oso Creek Trail is the city’s signature walking corridor: 5.5 miles of landscaped trail along the creek, with trailheads at the Character Garden on Marguerite Parkway, the Potocki/World Cup Soccer Center on La Paz Road, and Pavion Park (missionviejo.gov, 2026). The wider trail inventory includes Wilderness Glen (2.1 miles), a 3.1 mile concrete loop around Lake Mission Viejo, the 15 mile Arroyo Trabuco “Mountains to Sea” trail, the 18.5 mile Aliso Creek trail corridor, and the 10.9 mile 1984 Olympic Road Race loop, a holdover from the cycling events the city hosted for the Los Angeles Games (missionviejo.gov, 2026).

Lake Mission Viejo anchors recreation for member households: the North Beach and East Beach swim areas, boat and watercraft rentals, fishing, movie nights, and a summer concert series, all run by the Lake Mission Viejo Association, the nonprofit of residential property owners that has operated the lake since it opened in 1978 (lakemissionviejo.org, 2026). Mission Viejo Country Club, a private member owned club in the original core, plays a Robert Trent Jones Sr. course that opened in 1967 and has hosted PGA events over the years (missionviejocc.com, 2026). Day to day retail concentrates at The Shops at Mission Viejo regional mall on Crown Valley Parkway and along the Alicia Parkway and La Paz Road corridors, and the Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center on Veterans Way is the city’s main recreation and events hub.

Recent Market Snapshot

953 homes sold in Mission Viejo in the 12 months to October 28, 2026, at a median price of $1,210,000, 3.4% above the 12 months before. Single-family homes rose 4.1% to $1,330,000, and condos and townhomes fell 2.3% to $757,000. The typical home sold in 16 days, at 98.7% of its original list price. 25% of buyers paid cash. Prices by month since 2012 are on our Mission Viejo housing market page.

Citywide figures move with the mix of condominiums and single family homes that sold. Condominium tracts trade well below the citywide median, while lake adjacent custom homes and the guard gated hillside communities trade well above it. Working from comparable sales inside the same tract, and the same HOA, gives the most reliable read on any specific address.

Market Report

Mission Viejo Market Report

Data for October 2026

Median Sale Price

$1,217,500

1.7% YoY

Days on Market

17 days

Active Inventory

223

New Listings (Month)

96

Year-Over-Year Change

▲ 1.7%

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12-Month Median Price Trend

Mission Viejo

12-month trend, month by month (text)

Zillow's median home value index for Mission Viejo moved from $1,170,767 in October 2025 to $1,202,279 in September 2026.

Month	Median home value
October 2025	$1,170,767
November 2025	$1,174,290
December 2025	$1,180,406
January 2026	$1,185,613
February 2026	$1,190,201
March 2026	$1,193,779
April 2026	$1,195,360
May 2026	$1,196,735
June 2026	$1,196,952
July 2026	$1,198,039
August 2026	$1,199,959
September 2026	$1,202,279

Closed Sales in Mission Viejo

Recorded MLS closings, last 90 days through October 21, 2026.

226Closings

$1,217,500Median recorded closing (CRMLS)+1.7% vs the same window last year

$642Median price per sq ft

17Median days on market

98.1%Sale to original list

27%Cash purchases

Recent Mission Viejo sales

Address	Type	Closed	Price	Sq ft
21451 Medina	Single-family	Oct 21, 2026	$1,300,000	2,235
26231 #1B Via Roble	Condo	Oct 20, 2026	$685,000	1,141
13 Pemberly	Single-family	Oct 19, 2026	$1,468,550	1,976
21488 Miramar	Single-family	Oct 19, 2026	$1,195,000	2,045
25461 Posada	Single-family	Oct 19, 2026	$1,723,000	2,472
28032 Calle Casal	Single-family	Oct 19, 2026	$1,039,900	1,525
361 Summer	Condo	Oct 14, 2026	$765,000	1,369
26928 Carnelian 247	Condo	Oct 9, 2026	$700,000	1,206

These figures count closings recorded in the MLS over the window shown. The market report above opens with the same median. Its other figures use monthly Redfin and Realtor.com data. Sale to original list excludes relisted properties. Cash purchases counts sales recorded as all cash.

For the county-wide picture beyond Mission Viejo, our Orange County real estate hub covers every market we serve.

Curious how Mission Viejo prices compare with the rest of the county? Our Orange County real estate statistics tracks the median in every city we cover against 2019 and against 2012.