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Cielo’s Views Extend Community’s Beauty Beyond Its Borders

The loggia looking out toward the pool at 7967 Camino Sin Puente in the Cielo community of Rancho Santa Fe. Photo courtesy of PreviewFirst

Off of Del Dios Highway on the far northeastern edge of the Rancho Santa Fe Covenant is Cielo, a 1,740-acre private community. The terrain is some of the most dramatic in San Diego County. The community is set among ancient arroyos and soaring peaks of more than 1,400 feet with sweeping views to th

The extensive wine cellar in a home at 7967 Camino Sin Puente in the Cielo community of Rancho Santa Fe.

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e Pacific Ocean, including the Coronado Islands, San Clemente Island, Lake Hodges and Palomar Mountain.

More than 525 custom estate sites are within the guarded and gated development that range from one to three acres in size.

Brittany Hahn and Anna Houssels, real estate agents with Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty, have a listing in Cielo for a 9,817-square-foot home with five bedrooms, seven bathrooms on just over an acre at 7967 Camino Sin Puente. The home is listed for $5.575 million.

The Houssels | Hahn & Associates team has quite the pedigree.

Hahn, a La Jolla native, met Houssels while she was enjoying a successful career as a “Master of Wine,” a British qualification issued by the Institute of Masters of Wine and regarded as one of the most respected titles in the world of wine. Australia-native Houssels had just finished working for Sheikh Mohammed, the vice president, prime minister and Emir of Dubai, on his Palm Islands project. The two professionals decided to form a partnership and sell real estate in Australia. In 2014, they were named Belle Property Australasia’s number one sales agents. They returned to the U.S. in 2015, joined Pacific Sotheby’s specializing in luxury real estate sales. The team also leads the new luxury auction division at Pacific Sotheby’s.

Hahn said Cielo is appealing to many for the same reasons that people went to Fairbanks Ranch many years ago.

“It (Fairbanks) offered smaller blocks of land but still with large houses,” Hahn said. “Whereas the Covenant, which is the original Rancho Santa Fe, has large estates, but also large plots of land which needed maintenance and people to tend to them.”

She said Cielo offers the same thing that Fairbanks offered at the time; brand new houses built in a variety of styles.

“There doesn’t seem to be one particular style; you have Tuscan, you have modern, you’ve got what this listing is and that is a Mediterranean Spanish modern,” Hahn said. “Lots of different builders and architects have been involved in Cielo; the landscape does not make you think that you’re in a suburban environment, which is one of things that people just love about it the most.”

Hahn said that a lot of the people who are interested in Cielo are people who are also looking in Poway because of the views they each offer, rolling hills of greenery, backcountry and out to the ocean.

“You can see the sun striking across all these different areas,” Hahn said. “On the back side of the house you’re looking southwest and you can see the sunset, you can see the ocean and you can see the snowcapped mountains. It’s like Camelot.”

The home was custom built for the homeowner by Greg Agee, of Greg Agee Homes, in 2014.

“What you’re getting with this home is modern, open spaces with high ceilings,” Hahn said. “It has a lot of white, instead of having the oranges or a timber color, what you’re getting is Earl Gray (a Sherwin Williams color) timbers, it’s a very cutting-edge style now in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles.”

Hahn said the floor plan is very flexible and will accommodate many family needs from grandparents with visiting grandchildren or an adult child who lives at home with their child. There are two bedrooms upstairs with a generous amount of play space, yet it’s open to the first level.

The community also has a 50,000-square-foot commercial center designed in the style of an old Italian village that serves as a gathering place for residents with retail stores, restaurants and office space. The Tuscan-style clubhouse, Club Cielo, has a competitive-size swimming pool, tennis courts, showers, locker rooms, and fitness center with recreation and entertainment opportunities available to the residents as part of the homeowner association fees. A city of San Diego fire station is at the entrance to the community.

The community plan assures that 60 percent of the community will remain as open space as well as being surrounded by miles of trails into nature preserves owned by the city of San Diego.

“The client that I am selling the house for is actually buying another house in Cielo because he loves the community so much,” Hahn said. “He thinks that the management is great, he just loves his property and by the way, the wine cellar is absolutely fantastic.”

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