Village of Escaya
Otay Ranch Village 3 — HomeFed's first Otay Ranch village: 948 homes around a mixed-use village centre, a private residents' club and a 7.5-acre neighbourhood park.
The Village of Escaya is Otay Ranch Village 3 in Chula Vista, California, ZIP code 91913. Developed by HomeFed on roughly 450 acres, it is essentially built out with 948 homes — single-family, townhomes and condominiums — arranged around a mixed-use village centre, a private residents' club, and a 7.5-acre neighbourhood park.
- Officially Otay Ranch Village 3 — confirmed by City of Chula Vista SPA documents, not guessed
- One of the newest completed villages: late-2010s construction throughout
- 948 homes across single-family, townhome and condominium neighbourhoods
- Private club and wellness centre are association amenities — check what your dues cover
Escaya — Otay Ranch Village 3
Escaya is one of the best-documented villages in Otay Ranch, and one of the most misreported. Its plan area is Village 3 (with a portion of Village 4 in its SPA boundary) — a fact that comes straight from City of Chula Vista ordinance documents, filed by HomeFed’s Village III entity. You will nonetheless find it confidently mislabelled online, sometimes as Village 8 West. It is not: Village 8 West is Côta Vera, HomeFed’s newer village. If a source gets that wrong, weigh everything else it says accordingly.
HomeFed built Escaya as its first Otay Ranch village on roughly 450 acres, and it is essentially complete: 948 homes spanning detached single-family houses, townhomes and condominiums, plus The Residences apartment community. The layout follows the later-village pattern at its most polished — a walkable mixed-use village centre, a private residents’ club and wellness centre, and a 7.5-acre neighbourhood park doing the connective work that trails do in the older villages.
What to check before buying in Escaya
Being one of the newest completed villages cuts both ways. The homes carry current construction standards, modern floor plans and newer systems. But newer Otay Ranch villages typically carry higher Community Facilities District assessments than the villages built fifteen years earlier — the infrastructure they funded is newer debt. The club and wellness centre are association amenities, so understand exactly what the dues cover and what they cost before comparing an Escaya home against a Windingwalk or Montecito home at the same list price. The honest comparison is always total monthly cost.
We verify the assessment and dues for any specific Escaya address against the current tax roll and disclosures — ask us before you write.
Not to be confused with
Côta Vera (Village 8 West) is the adjacent, newer HomeFed village, still building. And as everywhere in this part of Chula Vista: Eastlake, Rolling Hills Ranch and Rancho del Rey are separate master plans, not Otay Ranch.
Comparing villages? Start with the Otay Ranch village comparison.
What we publish, and what we do not
- Designation
- Otay Ranch Village 3
- Developer
- HomeFed
- ZIP
- 91913
- Build era
- Late 2010s onward
- Home types
- Detached single-family, Townhomes, Condominiums, Apartments (The Residences at Escaya)
- Median price
- Not published — no verified first-party figure yet
- Mello-Roos (CFD)
- Varies by parcel — not published without verification against the current tax roll
- HOA dues
- Varies by association — not published without current disclosures
Village designation source: City of Chula Vista ordinance approving the "Village 3 and a Portion of Village 4 SPA Plan" amendment (filed 2020-05-29 by HomeFed Village III Master, LLC); HomeFed Corporation project records (first HomeFed village in Otay Ranch, 948 homes, ~450 acres). See docs/reference/village-registry.md.
