The backyard pool at an Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 that recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
This Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
This Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The interior of the front door that leads into the center atrium at an Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The backyard pool area at an Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood
in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 that recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The center atrium at an Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The backyard pool at an Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood
in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 that recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The backyard pool hot tub at an Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 that recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The backyard pool at an Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood
in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 that recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The backyard pool at an Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood
in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 that recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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This Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
As quickly as an Orange home by postwar developer Joseph Eichler appeared on Instagram in a “coming soon” post, it was gone.
The four-bedroom, 2,028-square-foot home with two bathrooms and a central atrium privately sold for $2.075 million, making it the most expensive Eichler deal in Orange County since the same house traded hands in June 2022.
“This particular client had always dreamed of owning an Eichler,” said Justin Ladd of Seven Gables Real Estate, who represented the buyer. “I arranged for a private showing for my clients before the home was officially listed, and they fell in love instantly.”
According to the “Tour of Eichler Historic Homes Tracts in Orange, CA” by Douglas Westfall, Orange follows the Bay Area for the second-highest number of Eichler homes. There are nearly 340 of them within the National Register of Historic Places-designated Fairhaven, Fairhills and Fairmeadow neighborhoods. Homes within these historic districts are eligible for the Mills Act, allowing homeowners to save on property taxes in exchange for regular maintenance.
Eichler developed the Orange tracts in the early 1960s with floor plans designed by well-known architects. Bob Anshen and Steve Allen are behind this home, which was built on a larger corner lot in the Fairhaven neighborhood in 1960.
In recent years, the house has been updated with new flooring, kitchen and bathroom renovations, solid doors, new skylights and ceramic film on all west-facing windows. But this hasn’t detracted from its originality.
The open-plan living area boasts Philippine mahogany panel walls.
Glass walls connect the indoor spaces to the backyard, which is concealed by tall shrubs and a wood fence. There’s a saltwater swimming pool and spa, an ipe deck with a fire pit, and a barbecue island.
Although it’s deemed architecturally “excellent,” Ladd said the new owner is renovating and restoring the home “to an even higher standard of Eichler excellence.”
Previous Eichler record-setters include a twin gable home in the Fairhills enclave. Spanning just shy of 2,000 square feet, the house with five bedrooms and two bathrooms sold for $1.85 million in April 2022. It exceeded the $1.801 million going price of another well-preserved model, a four-bedroom, 1,734-square-foot home with two bathrooms that sold in December 2021.
Eichler died in July 1974 at the age of 74.
Bryan Van Zee and Saam Shabahang of Compass represented Huang.
