Top 3 Palm Springs Neighborhoods for Active Adults (55+)

The top three best Palm Springs neighborhoods for active adults all have things in common, monthly HOA fees, countless amenities, and are in close proximity to shopping, restaurants, and other community services. Here are the top three best neighborhoods for active adults:

Four Season’s Palm Springs

The Four Season’s Palm Springs is the most sought after gated community in Palm Springs for active adults. In this community, you will find larger detached homes with a minimum of 2,000 square feet of livable space and amazing views. Within the neighborhood, you will have access to a fitness center, swimming pools, spas, tennis courts, yoga, and much more!

With so much included the value is huge compared to monthly HOA fees.

This neighborhood…

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work out equipment in palm springs

When you move to Palm Springs, you might notice everyone’s wardrobe is about the same: shorts and t-shirts. Except for more formal occasions when folks opt for a polo shirt.

For most months of the year, clothing is scanty. Expect to show lots of skin.

Hence, the abundance of gyms, fitness studios, and outdoor activities of various kinds to help you look your best. In and out of clothes.

Gyms

The Palm Springs area – and for our purposes, we’re limiting ourselves to Palm Springs and Cathedral City – has many of familiar, chain gyms. They vary in size, price, hours and clientele. Most have aerobic classes of some kind, and maybe yoga or mat Pilates. Not all are mentioned here.

A good practice is to visit each on a trial basis and see which…

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Luxury Trends In Palm Springs Real Estate

We often see interior design trends that are influenced by cultures and styles of the world. 

This year, however, we are seeing a shift from styles to functions.

As a result of more people being at home more often and for longer periods of time, there has been a need to have a more comfortable, functional space that offers personalized statement pieces.

Here are a few luxury design trends to on the look for, organized by rooms in your house.

Living Room Luxury

Custom free-form furniture is big right now - specifically sofas that are not the typical “sofa shapes”. Look for furniture that has curved edges that don’t create standard shapes.

Try warm colors like saffron, turmeric and mustard all coordinated with blues greens and reds.…

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought America to its knees, closing businesses and schools, eliminating travel, and disrupting lives. People everywhere were urged to stay home. Riverside County and Palm Springs in particular enacted strict regulations: requiring masks in public, shutting down bars, closing restaurants except for outdoor dining and take out, and restricting most tourist attractions. Palm Springs busiest tourist season was wiped out. No Coachella Festival, no Stagecoach, no tennis tournament. No Tram!

Is it OK to look on a bright side? Palm Springs’ residents have certain advantages that are the envy of city dwellers in these tough times. So much so that some part-time residents who maintain vacation or weekend homes in the desert abandoned…

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condos in palm springs golf resort

Palm Springs has rightly earned a lofty position when it comes to Southern California vacation destinations. The dynamic city has become a mecca for wellness with a booming spa industry and an unmatched reputation for world-class golf.

This reputation as a vacation and second home destination have led to a proliferation of stunning condo developments, many in very appealing resort-like settings.

The low maintenance lifestyle this type of property provides makes them ideal as short-term vacation rentals or investment properties as well as part-time residences. We’re talking about you snowbirds.

Join us as we explore the 6 Palm Springs condo developments that you should know about.

Ocotillo Lodge

Built back in 1957, Ocotillo Lodge has…

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