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The Calavera Hills file
Built 1984–2000 by McMillin Companies, Brookfield Homes.
The listings, the repair pattern and the buyer activity in Calavera Hills, kept in one place and read the way an inspector reads a house.
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Built1984–2000
ConstructionMcMillin Companies, Brookfield Homes
HOA / CFDOn file below
MarketCarlsbad, San Diego County
Price cuts21 logged
New listings24 logged
Status changes25+ logged
This week in Calavera Hills
The feed does not name Calavera Hills on most records yet, so this is Carlsbad's own week around it.
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Biggest price cut in Carlsbad7020 El Fuerte St
-$400,000 · was $4,900,000, now $4,500,000
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Property changesAddresses as of September 22; listing brokerage shown on each row. Card photos are illustrative, not the addresses listed. Status changes carry no tract name in the feed, so those rows are Carlsbad-wide.
Homes worth watching
Calavera Hills is not broken out on these records, so these are the Carlsbad homes a buyer here will walk this week.
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2 bed
2 bed
4 bed
3 bedAddress, price and size come off this week's own Carlsbad rows as of September 22. Card photos are illustrative, never a photo of the address listed.
What we see now
The four things we look at first on a 1984–2000 build, and the founder's own read on Calavera Hills.
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DrainageGrading and slope drainage
Where the water goes when it rains: swales, downspout discharge, and how the pad falls away from the slab.
RoofingRoof covering and flashing
Flashings, valleys and the ridge line let water in long before the field of a roof gives up.
StructureSlab and foundation
Cracks that matter read differently from cracks that do not. We read them against the age of the pour and the soil under it.
PlumbingSupply plumbing and the water heater
Material, age, and where a line has already been repaired tell you more than the pressure at the tap does.
Typical for this construction era, not findings from this tract. No Calavera Hills home has been walked for this file yet, and nothing above is a report on any one address.
The eye, on Calavera Hills
WildfireHigh
FaultLow
FoundationModerate
InsuranceHigh
Zarko's own rating for Calavera Hills, kept on the tract file and updated as homes here are walked.
Calavera Hills is a master-planned community built out in phases from the mid-1980s (The Cape, 1984) through the Calavera Hills Master Association's 2000 build-out, developed primarily by McMillin Companies and Brookfield Homes, wrapped around Lake Calavera and its open-space preserve in northeast Carlsbad near College Boulevard and Tamarack Avenue.
The lake and canyon setting that makes this a desirable, trail-adjacent community is also the reason it's flagged differently from Carlsbad's coastal tracts: the city's own fire department lists Calavera Hills among its highest wildland-fire preplan priority areas, and its published fire-hazard severity designation runs meaningfully above the citywide average. That's a real, documented factor for defensible-space compliance and insurability on homes closest to the open-space edge, distinct from the interior, non-adjacent lots in the same tract.
Because construction here spans roughly 1984 to 2000, expect the same construction-era range as anywhere with a sixteen-year build-out: earlier-phase homes are candidates for original roofing well past typical service life and, on 1980s-to-mid-1990s construction specifically, polybutylene supply plumbing (a well-documented, industry-wide issue for that era) should be confirmed rather than assumed. Calavera Hills Elementary and other Carlsbad Unified schools serve the area.
- HOA, Mello-Roos and CFD
- The Calavera Hills Master Association (roughly 487 units) is on record, alongside multiple sub-association HOAs covering different subdivisions. Whether a separate CFD/Mello-Roos special tax applies to a given parcel is pending the founder's notes.
- What carriers are doing here
- Carlsbad's own fire department names Calavera Hills, along with Hosp Grove and a handful of other canyon-adjacent areas, among its highest wildland-fire preplan priorities in the city, and the area's published fire-hazard designation is meaningfully above the Carlsbad average. What that's translating to in actual carrier appetite and premiums for this tract specifically is pending the founder's notes.
Who is buying here
Not a percentage — how the buyers around Calavera Hills actually pay, and the addresses that changed hands this week.
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ConventionalAn appraiser and an inspector both price condition.
CashNo lender, so condition lands as a discount, not a repair list.
VAThe home has to pass, not just appraise.
FHAThe appraiser flags the same condition items.
OtherTerms decide it more than the loan type does.- 7239 San Luis St, 184Monarch Home SalesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 6727 russelia ctHomeSmart Realty WestComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2637 39 Garfield StreetColdwell Banker RealtyComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 6617 Remsen CtThe Oppenheim GroupPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 331 Olive 202Real BrokerSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3157 Salina RoadCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
Bought by: I follow these closings myself — some of these buyers I know, a few were my clients. The names are for Vault members; everything else on the row is open.
Closed sales that stated how the buyer paid, Carlsbad-wide as of September 22, 2026 — Calavera Hills is not broken out separately. Addresses as of September 22; listing brokerage shown on each row.
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