Home appraisals in Chino

The older center of Chino holds single-family neighborhoods and small commercial blocks. Around them, and especially toward the south and west, parcels get larger: horse-keeping lots with barns, corrals, covered stalls and riding arenas, and properties where agricultural use or history still shapes what the land can be used for.

The Preserve, south of Kimball Avenue and north of State Route 71, between Euclid and Hellman avenues, is former and existing agricultural and dairy land annexed by the city and planned so that roughly half becomes housing, commerce and airport-related uses while the other half stays open space and farming. Its newer neighborhoods sit beside land that is still farmed.

The rejection that matters most here is a horse property compared with tract houses because they were nearest, with the barn, arena and stalls folded into a single lump adjustment. A reviewer expects comparables with similar lot use and each outbuilding's contributory value, what it adds to the whole property in the market, shown separately.

A reviewer also rejects a parcel with agricultural restrictions compared with unrestricted land as if the restriction did not exist, and a new Preserve home compared with older central-Chino houses on era alone.