Eagle Ridge & Hecker Pass, Gilroy Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

Eagle Ridge Dr and Club Dr are the main loops south of the creek, with golf-course parcels running between the streets and courts and short ways branching off both. County assessor data count about 870 single-family homes here: about 86 percent two-story, a median of about 3,270 sq ft (middle 80 percent about 2,400 to 4,100 sq ft), on lots with a median near 8,200 sq ft. About 270 of them sit on RH (Residential Hillside) zoning at the upper edges; the rest are R-1. About 60 residential lots had no building on record, including 12 on Berwick Ave (about 15,000 to 50,000 sq ft) and groups on the Eagle Ridge streets, Portmarnock, Portrush Ln and Southerland Ct.

North of the creek the lots are smaller and the houses more recent. The roughly 410 single-family homes in the Hecker Pass plan streets have a median lot of about 5,000 sq ft and a median house of about 2,510 sq ft (about 78 percent two-story), zoned HPSD (Hecker Pass Special Use District) in the city's parcel data. Village Green, next to Santa Teresa Blvd, is R-3 with about 76 condominium-style units.

The HOA describes Eagle Ridge as a gated community: its management handles gate transmitters, Security runs a greeting station and registers guest parking, and the HOA lists a clubhouse, pool, tennis courts and play areas plus architectural review for exterior projects. Confirm in each home's disclosures which association a street belongs to. Gilroy Gardens and the open-space hills around it at the west end are on land the city's maps show as city park and government-owned open space.

County land just west: past the west and south city limit is unincorporated Santa Clara County, outside Gilroy's urban service area but inside its sphere of influence (county GIS). Rancho Vista Dr runs south off Hecker Pass Hwy right at the city line; farther west and north are Hecker Pass Hwy toward Mount Madonna, Whitehurst Rd, Watsonville Rd, Redwood Retreat Rd, Day Rd and Burchell Rd, and the Solis Rancho and Smith Partition tracts. Addresses there say Gilroy, but county planning and county permits apply; county zoning near this edge is A-20Ac (Agriculture, 20-acre minimum), AR (Agricultural Ranchlands) and HS (Hillside), and wells, septic systems and private roads may apply. CAL FIRE maps the hills south and west of Eagle Ridge as State Responsibility Area, High with Very High pockets.