Golf Communities

Rancho La Quinta Country Club 2011 Sales Start Strong

The clubhouse at Rancho La Quinta

Rancho La Quinta Country property sales for the first two months of 2011 are up 100% over the same period of 2010. During the first two months of 2010 7 homes sold compared to 14 sales during January and February 2011.

If this sales pace continues that would add up to 84 homes selling during the year compared to 64 in 2010.

Featured Golf Community: PGA West, La Quinta

Golf homes on the Nicklaus Private Course at PGA West

PGA West in La Quinta offers a wide variety of golfing experiences and real estate opportunities. With six championship golf courses and seven neighborhoods, PGA West offers a resort lifestyle across a wide variety of prices and home styles. Condos begin in the $200’s. Single-family homes and luxury custom residences are available in all price ranges from moderate to super-luxury.

One of the advantages of purchasing a home at PGA West is the choice of either public non-membership golf on three courses, or membership enabling play on all six courses. PGA West also allows short term as well as long-term rentals, which is rarely allowed under HOA rules at many luxury communities. This can be a real plus for owners who desire to rent their properties a few times a year when they are not there to personally enjoy them.

Non-golfers also have the opportunity to become social and fitness members allowing them to utilize the PGA West private clubhouses, dining, fitness, tennis and limited private golf. All members receive dining and spa discounts at the affiliated La Quinta Resort, as well.

Monthly HOA dues are varied within the seven PGA West neighborhoods, dependent on the included amenities and services. Recent PGA West HOA’s ranged from $385 to over $600 for condos. Condo HOA’s are usually higher but often include exterior building maintenance, insurance, and amenities such as pools and spas.

Woodhaven Country Home Owners Vote To Buy Their Golf Course

The Woodhaven Country Club HOA voted recently to purchase their golf course, clubhouse and tennis courts. The $3 million purchase price works out to $6,000 per home, which can be paid by each home owner in a lump sum or financed over time. 83% of Woodhaven homeowners voted for the purchase, with 93% of owners casting votes.

HOA President Ken Durham reports that the Woodhaven golf course will continue to be semi-private, with outside public play continuing.

Fireworks at The Madison Club

Last night, my husband Bill and I were guests at The Madison Club in La Quinta celebrating the opening of Madison’s fabulous new clubhouse and amenities. Madison Club members, guests, PGA Tour players and celebrities alike enjoyed the warm desert evening as the event unfolded on the clubhouse terrace and around the luxurious pool facilities.

The stunning clubhouse is perched above the 1st, 9th and 19th holes, offering spectacular views of the golf course and the Santa Rosa Mountains beyond. Our evening at Madison wrapped up with a spectacular fire works display.

Several of Madison Club's new Villa properties are now occupied and several custom residences are well along in their construction. Please contact me for additional information or a private tour of Madison Club.

Sheri 

Driving The Golf Courses

Andalusia at Coral Mountain, La Quinta
by Bill Dettman,
Director of Sale And Marketing

This season I’ve been working with our marketing team in shooting thousands of new photos of many of the most beautiful resort lifestyle communities in the Valley. We use the photos to update our website pages on a regular basis, which includes adding new online photo tours of each community.

This web-friendly enhancement allows us to offer you maximum online information to help guide you in finding your next ‘place in the sun’ by offering you the best overview possible for each desert community. Sheri and her team believe that an informed buyer is a well-prepared buyer.

Driving The Golf Courses
As a side benefit of our photo shoots, I drive a golf cart around every single golf hole in every community that we shoot! I’m also visiting clubhouses, gyms, tennis courts and other community amenities and sharing this information with Sheri and Jonell to be able to pass on my vital findings to our clients. From entry level to the most exclusive desert communities, we do our homework on a daily basis to serve your needs at an unsurpassed level.

This month we’ve added new photo tours of the communities listed below. You’ll find our blue links to each photo tour on each of these community web pages:

• Desert Falls Country Club, Indian Wells
• Desert Horizons Country Club, Indian Wells
• Desert Island Country Club, Rancho Mirage
• Duna La Quinta
• Indian Palms Country Club, Indio
• Indian Springs Country Club, Indio
• Indian Wells Country Club
• Ironwood Country Club, Indian Wells
• Mountain View Country Club, La Quinta (updated photos)
• Tradition Golf Club, La Quinta
• Vintage Club, Indian Wells

Super-Luxury Villas at The Madison Club, La Quinta

The Villas at The Madison Club are a new collection of nineteen exquisite luxury homes averaging 5,000 square feet. Each Villa home has been handcrafted with painstaking attention to detail to create a truly elegant refined living environment that perfectly reflects the tastes of discriminating owners and accentuates the unsurpassed luxury life at The Madison Club.

These Villas are clustered in an intimate neighborhood at the very heart of the community, offering exceptional privacy and unparalleled access to all club amenities. Villa homes are available from about $4 million.

It appears that three or four villas in phase one are now under contract.

Location, Location, Location

Homes within most Palm Springs area golf communities continue to out-perform properties outside golf communities. As an example, La Quinta's average single-family resale home in a golf community sold for $817,800 in November '08. While the price is well above La Quinta's average prices, it is down significantly from the average golf course home sale price of $1,284,889 in November of '07.

’08 Palm Springs Golf Community Top-20 List

Our annual Palm Springs area Golf Community Top-20 report ranks area golf communities by units sold during the year 2008 compared to '07. This year nine of the top 20 golf communities recorded sales increases over '07 totally bucking the national real estate trends. Only three golf communities recorded overall price increases, while ultra-exclusive Bighorn was the only one to record both sales and price increases for '08.

The top-10 offered double digit discounts over '07. Communities that recorded a significant sales increase along with price decreases seemed to be popular with bargain hunters, especially in the under $500,000 segment where about 82% of December '08 sales were recorded. After each community name you’ll see the sales increase or decrease in units first, then the average price change over the previous year. We've ranked these communities by sales increases in descending order.

Golf Community / 08 Sales Change / 08 Price Change

1. Bighorn, Palm Desert: +36% / +6%
2. Woodhaven Country Club, Palm Desert: +32% / -19
3. Mountain View Country Club, La Quinta: +31% / -15%
4. Trilogy, La Quinta: +26% / -18%
5. Ironwood, Palm Desert: +23% / -14%
6. Palm Valley, Palm Desert: +14% / -13%
7. The Palms Golf Club, La Quinta: +14% / -16%
8. La Quinta Country Club, La Quinta: +10% / -7%
9. The Reserve, Palm Desert: +9% / +17%
10. PGA West, La Quinta: -1% / -11%
11. Indian Springs Country Club, Indio: -5% / -18%
12. Tradition Golf Club, La Quinta: -20% / -1%
13. Rancho La Quinta Country Club: -20% / -15%
14. Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage: -23% / -9%
15. Desert Falls Country Club, Palm Desert: -29% / -5%
16. Hideaway, La Quinta: -50% / -11%
17. Indian Ridge Country Club, Palm Desert: -56% / +4%
18. La Quinta Resort & Club: -57% / +4%
19. Vintage Club, Indian Wells: -67% / -26%
20. Toscana Country Club, Indian Wells: -71% / -1%

You can see profiles on each of these golf communities here

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