WildfireDefensible space
The city’s own preplan priority listing for this canyon-adjacent area makes vegetation clearance and roof/vent hardening worth verifying before close, not after.
Tract guide · Carlsbad
Calavera Hills, house by house
Built 1984–2000
The lake, the trail network, and the wildfire preplan status the city itself puts on this canyon-adjacent community.
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1984–2000
McMillin Companies, Brookfield Homes
The Calavera Hills Master Association plus several sub-HOAs cover different subdivisions inside the tract.
Lake Calavera and its open-space preserve anchor the community’s trail network.What wears out first here
The things we look at first in Calavera Hills homes, and what to watch as you walk a property.
How the read works →Wildfire
PlumbingPlumbing era
Homes from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s phases are candidates for polybutylene supply plumbing, a well-documented era issue nationally — confirm rather than assume.
RoofingRoofing service life
With construction spanning 1984 to 2000, original roofing on the earliest phases is well past a typical service life if it hasn’t already been replaced.
The eye, on this tract
WildfireHigh
FaultLow
FoundationModerate
InsuranceHigh
Zarko's own rating for Calavera Hills, kept on the tract file and updated as homes here are walked.
Homes worth watching
Different pockets, different feels. What a Calavera Hills buyer is walking, and what sits inside the radius.
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Carlsbad West$460,000
7225 140 W San Lucas Street 140 · 2 bd · 2 ba · Compass
Carlsbad West$698,000
3422 Don Cota Drive · 2 bd · 2 ba · HomeSmart Realty West
Carlsbad West$1,699,000
3229 Valley st · 4 bd · 3 ba · Coldwell Banker West
The lake and the freeway, both close
Within 12 minutes
- Lake Calavera and its open-space preserve
- Calavera Hills Community Park
- College Boulevard’s shopping and dining
- The 78 freeway corridor
- Carlsbad Village and the coast
Active listings off Carlsbad's own week, September 22. The tag on each card is the tract the feed names for that address, which is not always this one. Photos are illustrative — not photographs of the address on the card. The places listed are real and inside Calavera Hills's own radius.
Recent activity
The feed names a tract on only some records, so this is the most recent Carlsbad week around Calavera Hills.
Open the Vault →- 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.
Addresses as of September 22; listing brokerage shown on each row.
The inspector's note
Every Calavera Hills home gets the same read before an offer is written.
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I do not just see what a house is. I see what it will cost, what it needs, and what it is really worth.
Calavera Hills is a collection of phases, and the details matter. The items above are the ones that come up here first — I look at each home in the context of its own phase and street before anything about price gets discussed.
Zarko MaletinDRE #02038779InterNACHI CPI
Get the read →Sources: City of Carlsbad Hazard Mitigation Plan annex — Calavera Hills fire preplan area; City of Carlsbad Fire Department — wildfire risk mitigation; Carlsbad Unified School District — school locator & maps.
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