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By Anthony Feng, Feng Properties | Irvine, CA You found the home. The list price fits your pre-approval. Then two line items you didn't fully account for quietly add three, four, sometimes five hundred dollars to your monthly payment, and they can shrink how much home you actually qualify for. In Irvine, those two line items are HOA dues and Mello-roos. Neither is hidden, exactly. But they surprise enough buyers deep into escrow that I bring them up before we ever write an o

By Anthony Feng | June 2026 | Feng Properties The honest answer is, it depends on your timeline, your finances, and what you're comparing it to. Irvine is not cheap. It has never been cheap. But "expensive" and "bad investment" are not the same thing, and most people conflate them when they look at a $1.6M median price and immediately conclude this market isn't for them. Let me break down what the data actually says and who this market makes sense for in 2026. Where Irvine Pr