Though it’s located just thirty miles east of Los Angeles, the residential community of Claremont, California is a far cry from life in the big city. Situated in the Pomona Valley at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, this close-knit town, known for its tree-lined streets and prestigious group of colleges, is home to 35,900 residents. With high marks for the city’s top-notch schools and community environment, Claremont placed #5 on Money magazine’s Top 100 Best Places to Live.
The consensus of Claremont’s founders was that the city should be quaint and charming with the character of an East Coast college town. With this is mind, they named streets after prestigious East Coast schools and planted over 250 trees common to the eastern states to shade its streets and sidewalks. Claremont has continued to nurture, protect and preserve its community forest and has earned the National Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree City USA award for the past 19 years running.
Established in 1887, Pomona College is the founding member of The Claremont Colleges, a prestigious consortium of seven independent schools of higher education located in the city. Besides Pomona, the consortium includes Claremont McKenna College, Scripps College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Keck Graduate Institute and Claremont Graduate University. Several of the colleges are consistently rated among the best in the nation, and the schools draw students from across the country and around the world.
Its large number of trees and the high percentage of residents with doctorate degrees have earned Claremont its nickname - the City of Trees and Ph.D.s!
Though the city is primarily residential, just to the west of the colleges is its downtown area known as The Village, lined with small street-front stores, high-end boutiques and offices. A historic lemon packing house is home to an art museum, artists’ lofts, restaurants and a jazz club. Plans for expansion include a multi-use development with an upscale hotel, cinema, retail space, offices and a parking structure.
For California, where home values and new homes for sale can be pricier than in other parts of the country, Money found home prices in Claremont to be “relatively affordable.” The median home price in 2006 was $643,549 with average property taxes of $2,834. Close to the colleges along deeply-shaded, tree-lined streets are Claremont homes in its older residential and historic areas. In the northern portion of the city, home buyers can find residential developments of condos, townhomes, single-family new homes, and new home communities of large, $1-million+ homes, like Stone Canyon Preserve.
If you’ve been California dreaming, take a trip to this small community, drive its beautiful, tree-lined streets and check out the homes for sale in Claremont. Settle down, hug a tree and get a degree!
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The Author: Sandra Tuell Website: http://www.newhomes.com About: As weblog author for Homes Advisory, the blog for New Homes Realty, Inc., Sandra Tuell covers topics that run the real estate gamut, written expressly for the home buyer. On the blog, home buyers will find practical information and advice on preparing their existing homes for sale, enlisting the services of a buyer’s agent, searching for new homes, making an offer and closing the transaction. Sandra regularly presents real estate news from the perspective of how events will impact home buyers and the real estate industry in general. Trained as a journalist, Sandra stepped into the real estate industry as an accredited home staging specialist, interior arranger and color expert. Since March 2007, Sandra has researched, commented on and explored happenings in the real estate industry, including home building, home mortgages and financing, real estate investing, and the economy. With a passion for all that is pertinent to the design, comfort, livability and marketability of the home, Sandra also provides tips and insights for homeowners who wish to maximize the potential of their personal spaces and turn their new houses into homes. For the past four years, Sandra has operated her own interior arrangement and home staging company, Roomscapes, servicing clients in Pinellas County, Florida. Previously, Sandra worked in the corporate world as a marketing professional, applying her creative energy in a variety of roles including advertising, promotions, special events planning and web content creation. Her current position as a writer for New Homes Realty allows her to bring together her love of design and her educational training as a journalist. "It's really the best of both worlds," says Sandra.
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