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The Menifee Lakes file
Built 1989–1999.
The listings, the repair pattern and the buyer activity in Menifee Lakes, kept in one place and read the way an inspector reads a house.
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Built1989–1999
HOA / CFDOn file below
MarketMenifee, Riverside County
File updatedSep 4, 2026
Price cuts25+ logged
New listings25+ logged- Status changes25+ logged
This week in Menifee Lakes
The feed does not name Menifee Lakes on most records yet, so this is Menifee's own week around it.
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Biggest price cut in Menifee30383 Freeman
-$34,000 · was $799,000, now $765,000
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Property changesAddresses as of October 19; 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 Menifee-wide.
Homes worth watching
Menifee Lakes is not broken out on these records, so these are the Menifee homes a buyer here will walk this week.
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2 bed
5 bed
5 bed
4 bedAddress, price and size come off this week's own Menifee rows as of October 19. Card photos are illustrative, never a photo of the address listed.
What we see now
The four things we look at first on a 1989–1999 build, and the founder's own read on Menifee Lakes.
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RoofingRoof covering and flashing
Flashings, valleys and the ridge line let water in long before the field of a roof gives up.
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.
DrainageGrading and slope drainage
Where the water goes when it rains: swales, downspout discharge, and how the pad falls away from the slab.
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.
Typical for this construction era, not findings from this tract. No Menifee Lakes home has been walked for this file yet, and nothing above is a report on any one address.
The eye, on Menifee Lakes
WildfireModerate
FaultLow
FoundationModerate
InsuranceModerate
Zarko's own rating for Menifee Lakes, kept on the tract file and updated as homes here are walked.
Menifee Lakes is one of Menifee's older master-planned communities, built around the Menifee Lakes Country Club golf course (designed by Ted Robinson) starting in 1989, with most of the tract's homes dating from the 1990s. It's governed by the Lakes Community Association, one of the larger HOAs in the city.
This is now a tract with over three decades on its original systems in the unrenovated homes: original composition roofing is well past a typical service life if it hasn't already been replaced, and 1989–1990s-era copper or, on the earlier phases, potentially polybutylene supply plumbing should be confirmed rather than assumed. Buyers should treat any home here that hasn't disclosed a roof or repipe as needing that verified during inspection, not after close.
Menifee Union School District (K-8) and Perris Union High School District serve this address. The golf-course setting means some lots border fairways and water features directly, which raises the usual questions about irrigation runoff and lot-line drainage that are worth checking on any golf-adjacent property regardless of age.
- HOA, Mello-Roos and CFD
- The Lakes Community Association governs this tract as an HOA; public sources describe HOA dues and amenities but not a separate CFD. Whether a Mello-Roos special tax also applies at the county-tax-bill level for a given parcel is pending the founder's notes.
Who is buying here
Not a percentage — how the buyers around Menifee Lakes 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.- 27204 OncoreFirst Team Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 27271 Lute LaneCentury 21 MastersSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 26809 Millerton StreetCentury 21 MastersSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 28680 Avenida MarbellaFirst Team Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 29294 Cool CreekLink BrokeragesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 26817 Millerton StreetCentury 21 MastersBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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, Menifee-wide as of October 19, 2026 — Menifee Lakes is not broken out separately. Addresses as of October 19; listing brokerage shown on each row.
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