Gregory Gardens, Pleasant Hill

Gregory Gardens is in the north-central part of Pleasant Hill, north of Gregory Lane. Pleasant Hill Park and the Aquatic Park are close by on Gregory Lane, and Downtown Pleasant Hill is a short drive south. Neighborhood edges vary from one source to the next.

At a glance: In the 12 months through September 2026, the median sale price of a single-family home in Gregory Gardens was $885,000, across 37 sales. Homes sold for about 102.3% of their list price, and the middle sale took 8 days on the market.

Look at a map and you'll find Mary Drive, Lucille Lane, Maureen Lane, Ruth Drive, Cynthia Drive, Doris Drive, Helen Road, Alvina Drive, Ardith Drive, and Elinora Drive. The story told locally is that the developers named the streets for their wives and daughters. No record we found confirms it, but the names are a real part of the neighborhood's character.

Gregory Gardens Elementary School, on Corritone Court, is the neighborhood's own school and shares its name. It is a public elementary school for kindergarten through grade 5 in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District. Strandwood Elementary is a short drive southwest on Gladys Drive, and College Park High School and Valley View Middle School are a few minutes north on Viking Drive. School boundaries don't follow neighborhood names, so check the district's boundary map for any address you're considering. The Pleasant Hill page lists the public and private schools across the city.

Pleasant Hill Park, the park district's central park, has sports fields, picnic areas, and the Aquatic Park, and the Pleasant Hill Baseball Association, running baseball and softball in the city since 1958, plays games there. Las Juntas Open Space, a park district open space, sits on Lucille Lane. Downtown Pleasant Hill, with shops, restaurants, a movie theater, and a Saturday farmers market at City Hall, is a short drive south, and the Iron Horse Regional Trail passes through the city for running and biking.

Pleasant Hill has no extra city transfer tax, only Contra Costa County's. There's no ordinance requiring a sewer lateral certificate in Pleasant Hill, however a sewer lateral inspection is recommended. The City does ask for one form of its own: a time-of-sale weatherization disclosure, a short checklist of energy items like attic insulation, weatherstripping, and an insulated water heater, which the buyer returns to the City after closing. Most of Pleasant Hill is not in a state fire hazard severity zone, but it is worth checking the address. In a neighborhood of similar homes, the right comparable sales matter most: a remodeled ranch and an original one sell very differently. My Pleasant Hill home selling page explains the steps.

Homeowners move on for all kinds of reasons including (but not limited to): upsizing to a second or third home, divorce, relocating for work, or the passing of a family member.

Tanja Odzak is a Top East Bay Realtor with eXp Realty, helping buyers and sellers in Pleasant Hill and across the East Bay. Gregory Gardens is one of Pleasant Hill's best-known neighborhoods: a large tract of single-story ranch homes built in the years right after World War II, around 1950. It is known for its mid-century ranch houses, Gregory Gardens Elementary School, its streets named with first names, and the way almost every home has been updated in its own way over seven decades.