About La Quinta's La Cantera

La Cantera, La Quinta, CA - A bit of Santa Barbara in the desert, La Cantera is inspired with elegant Spanish architecture style. Designed by award winning architect Frank Stoltz, La Cantera offers five distinctive floor plans remittance of the Spanish estates in Santa Barbara. Your visitors will take note of the indoor and outdoor spaces that seamlessly merge to create invigorating living spaces for lavish entertaining or quiet intimate evenings.

La Cantera is a private gated community of 60 homes in South La Quinta located off Avenue 52. Not your ordinary home, La Cantera homes offer private courtyards and portico entries, private enclosed patios, and exterior design work with stone, brick, or tile detailing. La Cantera homes have impressive 12 foot ceilings, 8 foot sliding glass doors, and 8 foot solid core raised panel doors. Arched doorways and custom wood garage doors are just a couple of the distinctive features that makes La Cantera a special place to call home.

Floor plans in La Cantera start at 2297 square feet and go up to more than 3400 square feet. The community has single and two story homes and some homes feature second floor sky decks or private casitas. Current home sales range from $400,000 to mid $500's.

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Avenue 52 off Jefferson, La Quinta

Debut 2005

Details Gated Community

Homes 60

HOAs $275 monthly (includes frontyard landscape maintenance)

Prices $400K to $700K

La Cantera in La Quinta is a marvelous little gem of a community, only 60 luxurious homes tucked in a gated community off Avenue 52, west of the Jefferson roundabout and across from The Hideway Golf Club. With architecture inspired by Santa Barbara’s iconic Spanish-Moorish architecture, Vista La Quinta partners designed one- and two-story semi-custom mini estates situated on gently curving streets.

There is no golf course or guard-gated entrance, therefore the HOAs—which include front landscaping—are a reasonable $232. The richly painted homes boast casitas, granite, smooth exterior stucco, sky decks and expansive patio overhangs to enjoy the indoor/outdoor desert lifestyle. Energy-efficient features include tankless water heaters and insulated exterior walls.

The intimate community debuted in 2005 and offered five floorplans with footage ranging from 2300 to 3480 square feet. Prices started at $700K and went up to $800K. Over the next few years, prices soared over $1M. Since the market downturn, there have been a handful of distress-sale bargains appear which are quickly snapped up.

To see current properties available in La Cantera, go to my website: Desert Realtor Mary and select Featured Communities under the Search Properties button.