Overview
About Pelican Hill
The name Pelican Hill reaches beyond the resort that carries it. On the ridge above sit the gated communities this page covers, named from the City of Newport Beach's own records: the Pelican Hill Community Association with 138 homes, Pelican Crest across two associations with 94 and 65 for 159 together, and three Pelican Ridge associations holding 212 between them, the Maintenance Corporation at 93, Pelican Ridge Estates at 61 and the Pelican Ridge Community Association at 58. Every one of them is recorded as gated, and every address in them carries the Newport Coast zip of 92657. There is no master association named for these polygons in the city's layer.
Below the communities, on 504 acres of coastal ground at 22701 Pelican Hill Road South and a fifteen-minute drive from John Wayne Airport, sits the Resort at Pelican Hill, built as an adaptation of the architecture of the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The city's own association record carries it as an Irvine Company project opening in the fall of 2008, and it shares its map area with the Marriott Newport Coast Villas, 414 units under Marriott Vacation Club Resorts management. Pelican Hill Golf Club runs 36 holes designed by Tom Fazio between the homes and the water: Ocean North plays to par 71 at 6,945 yards with ocean views from every hole by the resort's own description, and Ocean South to par 70 at 6,580 yards through sage and eucalyptus running down to the shore. Newport Coast Elementary on Ridge Park Road serves these addresses, feeding the Corona del Mar 7-12 campus.
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How Pelican Hill was built
Golf came before houses. Tom Fazio laid out the Ocean South course on the cliff top and it opened in 1991, with several holes giving something close to a 270 degree view of the Pacific and the routing crossing Newport Coast Road twice in a round. The Ocean North course followed two years later. The gated communities on the ridge, Pelican Ridge, Pelican Hill itself and Pelican Crest, went in around the fairways through the 1990s, top of the decade to the end of it.
The resort is the newest thing on the hill, not the oldest: the Resort at Pelican Hill opened in 2008 on 504 acres, built in an Italian idiom to match the villages above it. All of this was unincorporated county ground while it was being built. Newport Beach approved the annexation in 2001 and it took effect on the first day of 2002, so the neighborhood is older than its own city address.
By the Numbers
Pelican Hill by the numbers
Real Estate
Market snapshot
Real estate snapshot
13 closed sales · 01/01/26 – 08/17/26
| Median sale price | $13,500,000 |
| Median price per sq ft | $2036 |
| Median home size | 8,834 sq ft |
| Median days on market | 84 |
| Sale-to-list ratio | 86.9% |
| Price range | $10,700,000 – $30,000,000 |
| Year built | 1994 – 2009 |
Price range distribution
Share of closed sales by price band
Our Sales
Our recent sales in Pelican Hill
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Lifestyle
The Pelican Hill lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Pelican Hill
Newport-Mesa Unified's own locator assigns these addresses to Newport Coast Elementary on Ridge Park Road, then to Corona del Mar High School and Middle School, one continuous campus at 2101 Eastbluff Drive for grades 7 through 12. Newport Coast Elementary enrolls 403 students, with 83% meeting the state ELA standard and 78% the math standard. Corona del Mar graduated 96.5% of its 2024-25 cohort and offers 65 AP courses. The district adjusts boundaries periodically, so confirm a specific address with its locator before it matters to an offer.
TK-6 · 403 students
7-12 · 2,117 students
FAQs
Common questions about Pelican Hill
What does a home in Pelican Hill sell for?
Thirteen homes closed between January 1 and August 17 of 2026, every one of them detached single family and every one above $5 million, at a median of $13,500,000, or $2,036 a square foot on a median size of 8,834 square feet. The lowest closed at $10,700,000 and the highest at $30,000,000. Half took 84 days or longer to reach escrow and the group closed at 86.9% of original list price, the widest gap between asking and closing on any Newport Beach community page in this window, so values here are settled through long negotiations. Nine homes stood active, asking from $11,995,000 to $49,998,000.
Which communities does this page cover?
The gated residential associations on the ridge, taken from the city's own community associations layer rather than from marketing usage: the Pelican Hill Community Association at 138 residential units, Pelican Crest I at 94 and Pelican Crest II at 65, and the three Pelican Ridge associations, the Maintenance Corporation at 93, Pelican Ridge Estates at 61 and the Pelican Ridge Community Association at 58. That is 509 homes across six associations, all gated, all in zip 92657. The resort and the Marriott villas sit in a separate map area the city calls Pelican Hill - Marriot.
What is the Resort at Pelican Hill?
An Irvine Company resort on 504 acres of coastal ground at 22701 Pelican Hill Road South, which the city's own association record notes as opening in the fall of 2008, a fifteen-minute drive from John Wayne Airport. Its architecture is an adaptation of the style of the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. It shares its mapped area with the Marriott Newport Coast Villas, a 414-unit property under Marriott Vacation Club Resorts management. The resort is a separate property from the residential associations above it, so a home on the ridge carries no resort membership with it.
Can you golf at Pelican Hill?
Pelican Hill Golf Club runs 36 holes designed by Tom Fazio, laid across the coastal terrain below the communities. The Ocean North course plays to par 71 at 6,945 yards, with ocean views from every hole by the resort's own description. The Ocean South course plays to par 70 at 6,580 yards, running through sage and eucalyptus down to the water. The club belongs to the resort rather than to any of the residential associations on the ridge, so access is arranged through the resort and does not come with an address.
Which schools serve Pelican Hill?
Newport-Mesa Unified's own school locator, queried at a Pelican Hill address, returns Newport Coast Elementary at 6655 Ridge Park Road and then the single Corona del Mar 7-12 campus at 2101 Eastbluff Drive for both the middle and high years. Newport Coast Elementary enrolls 403 students, with 83% meeting or exceeding the state standard in English and 78% in mathematics against district figures of 61% and 50%. Corona del Mar graduated 96.5% of its 2024-25 four-year cohort and offered 65 AP courses, with 54.7% of students enrolled in one.