Overview
About University Town Center
University Town Center is the City of Irvine's Planning Area 24, and the City's planning area polygon and its separate villages polygon draw the same 359-acre outline. The General Plan's own land use table splits that outline into 204 acres of medium-high residential, 112 of recreation and 43 of commercial, and sets a maximum of 2,757 dwelling units, placing every one of them in the Medium-High band at eleven to twenty-five units an acre with nothing allocated to the estate, low, medium or high categories. That is the plan's own account of why a buyer here is choosing among attached homes. The City's address layer holds 2,251 residential address points against 75 non-residential, on 21 streets named almost entirely for universities, from Amherst and Berkeley through Cornell and Dartmouth to Princeton and Stanford, and its zip code layer puts 92612 over every acre.
Governance runs through one master association. The City records it as University Town Center Master Association, master ID 24.1, managed by Keystone Pacific Property Management, and the association's own site, which calls itself Town Center Association, publishes four sub-associations beneath it: Cambridge Court, Columbia Square, Oxford Court and Princeton Townhomes, each naming the streets it covers, so an address on Exeter falls under Columbia Square while an address on Lehigh Aisle falls under Oxford Court. The same page names nine apartment complexes inside the community. The association counts four parks and names its amenities as basketball courts, picnic areas, sand volleyball courts, a soccer field, spas, swimming pools, tennis courts and tot lots, all of it association property, because the City's parks layer records no city park inside the boundary at all. Irvine Unified's 2026-27 attendance maps put the village in Turtle Rock Elementary's area, Rancho San Joaquin Middle's and University High's, and both lower campuses stand outside the village.
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How University Town Center was built
University Town Center stands on the ground the whole city started from. In 1960 the Irvine Company sold 1,000 acres to the University of California for one dollar to build UC Irvine and commissioned William Pereira to master plan the ranch, and Pereira's plan put the campus at the center with residential villages around it, each with its own schools, churches and shopping. This village is the piece of that plan that sits directly across the street from the university.
It was developed in the 1980s across about 343 acres, later than most of the villages around the campus, and it was built as a mixed-use center rather than a subdivision: attached condominiums and townhomes over pedestrian walkways connecting the retail center to the neighborhoods, with a Saturday farmers market that still runs. Twelve parks sit inside it, four of them public and eight private, and about 138 acres of the village is parks and open space. The 101-acre William R. Mason Regional Park adjoins it.
By the Numbers
University Town Center by the numbers
Real Estate
Market snapshot
Real estate snapshot
14 closed sales · 01/30/26 – 07/08/26
| Median sale price | $1,039,000 |
| Median price per sq ft | $785 |
| Median home size | 1,338 sq ft |
| Median days on market | 23 |
| Sale-to-list ratio | 93.6% |
| Price range | $631,000 – $1,363,000 |
| Year built | 1981 – 1988 |
Price range distribution
Share of closed sales by price band
Our Sales
Our recent sales in University Town Center
2 transactions of ours in this neighborhood, placed here by the City of Irvine address record rather than by zip code. The section renders only real transactions and does not pad to fill the row.
Lifestyle
The University Town Center lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving University Town Center
University Town Center addresses are in Irvine Unified. Reading the district's own 2026-27 attendance area maps against the City of Irvine's boundary for the village puts it in Turtle Rock Elementary's area for kindergarten through sixth grade, Rancho San Joaquin Middle's for grades seven and eight, and University High's for grades nine through twelve. The district's records agree with the maps in both directions, because Rancho San Joaquin's own feeder list names Turtle Rock and Rancho San Joaquin feeds University High. Both of the lower campuses stand outside the village, Turtle Rock Elementary at 5151 Amalfi Drive and Rancho San Joaquin Middle at 4861 Michelson Drive, so neither is a walk from a home here. Irvine Unified adjusts boundaries periodically and asks families to enter a specific address into its own school locator, so confirm the current assignment at iusd.org before it carries weight in a decision.
9-12 · 2,307 students
7-8 · 860 students
K-6 · 881 students
FAQs
Common questions about University Town Center
What does a home in University Town Center sell for?
The median was $1,039,000 across fourteen closed sales between 30 January and 8 July 2026, at $785 a square foot on a median closed size of 1,338 square feet. Closings ran from $631,000 to $1,363,000, and the fourteen split evenly, with seven below $1 million and seven between $1 million and $1.5 million. Nothing closed above $1.5 million in the window, so a buyer working above that number is looking at a different village.
How fast do homes sell here, and do they sell at asking?
Half of the fourteen closings were in escrow within 23 days, and the range ran from same-day to 120 days. The median closing came in at 93.6 percent of the original asking price, which is a real gap between the opening ask and the clearing price, so the number a seller publishes in the first week is where most of the outcome is decided. One listing stood active in the same export against a pace of 2.68 closings a month, about 0.37 months of supply, which leaves a buyer very little to compare at any one moment.
What can residents use, and is any of it public?
Town Center Association counts four parks and names its amenities as basketball courts, picnic areas, sand volleyball courts, a soccer field, spas, swimming pools, tennis courts and tot lots. It publishes no count for the pools, the spas or the tennis courts and does not name the four parks. All of it is association property. The City of Irvine's parks layer records no city park inside the village boundary, so access to those amenities follows association membership rather than the address alone. The public recreation nearby is the county's: OC Parks records William R. Mason Regional Park at 339 acres around a nine-acre lake with a 123-acre wilderness area, and the City carries its address point at 18712 University Drive inside this same planning area. It opened as University Regional Park, named for the campus, on land the Irvine Company donated, and the Board of Supervisors renamed it for William R. Mason, president of the Irvine Company from 1966 until his death in 1973. Its first phase of forty-five acres opened in 1973 and a fifty-acre second phase completed in 1978 added the lake.
Are there detached single-family homes in University Town Center?
None of the fourteen homes that closed this year was a single-family home. Nine were condominiums and five were townhomes. The City's General Plan points the same way, placing all 2,757 of the planning area's maximum dwelling units in the Medium-High band at eleven to twenty-five units an acre and allocating nothing to the estate, low, medium or high categories, and the association describes the community as a combination of apartments and condominiums. None of those is a census of what stands here today, so a buyer set on a detached home should treat this village as an unlikely fit and confirm a specific address rather than rule the whole boundary out.
Which schools serve University Town Center?
Irvine Unified. The district's 2026-27 attendance area maps put the village in Turtle Rock Elementary's area, which enrolls 881 students in grades K-6 with 84 percent meeting or exceeding standard in English and 80 percent in math; in Rancho San Joaquin Middle's area, which enrolls 860 in grades 7-8 at 78 percent and 74 percent; and in University High's area, which enrolls 2,307 in grades 9-12 with a 97.2 percent graduation rate and 90 AP courses offered. Both lower campuses stand outside the village. Irvine Unified adjusts boundaries periodically, so confirm the current assignment for a specific address at iusd.org before it carries weight in a decision.