Tustin, CA Real Estate

Tustin Homes for Sale

Tustin Real Estate prices range from $350,000 up to over 4 Million. Tustin property types include Single Family, Residential, Commercial, Town Homes & Condominiums, Lots & Land, and Investment Properties.

The Community of Tustin

Tustin is a city that is proud of its small-town heritage. Although it is growing in population, city officials and residents want to hold on to the city's old-fashioned atmosphere.

The story of Tustin begins with the land itself. It is situated on the floodplain of the Santa Ana River and its tributary, Santiago Creek, south and west of the Santa Ana Mountains. The most prominent landmark in the Tustin area is a hill known as "Red Hill" which is 347 feet high. The soil on Red Hill turned red when ancient volcanic activity deposited cinnabarite (mercury) in the sandstone hill. The Native Americans than inhabited the Tustin area prior to the Spaniards called the hill "Katuktu" defined as "Hill of Prominence" or "Place of Refuge".

Tustin was founded in 1868 by Columbus Tustin, a Philadelphia farmer and entrepreneur. But the town's growth was rather slow compared with neighboring Santa Ana and Orange. It took nearly 60 years before the predominantly farming community grew to 500 residents and incorporated.

Where do you look to find the business trends and sociological developments that will define where the cutting edge cities of the next century are headed? Seattle? Austin? San Jose? Not so, according to New York Times critic Paul Goldberger who believes, "There is no better place to think about the American landscape and what it is turning into than in Orange County..."

Whether you're talking about its growing dominance in high-tech industries or its leadership in identifying and responding to a more diverse demographic base, the County of Orange is positioned to lead much of Southern California and the entire state, in a transition to an information age economy. Consider that the business area around John Wayne Airport, once noted for its strawberry fields and quiet planned communities, is now the third largest "Downtown" in California in terms of office space, behind only Los Angeles and San Francisco. Consider also the the County as a whole has the thirteenth largest number of business establishments and the fourteenth largest consumer market in the entire nation.