Murrieta Hot Springs Homes for Sale

Murrieta Hot Springs occupies the eastern portion of the City of Murrieta, roughly centered on Murrieta Hot Springs Road near ZIP code 92563. Long before it was a neighborhood, it was its own place: a separate census-designated place with 2,948 residents at the 2000 census, annexed into the City of Murrieta on July 1, 2002.

The area takes its name from the thermal springs that have drawn visitors for well over a century. The Luiseño people used the springs long before European settlement, and a resort was first developed here in 1884. Fritz Guenther expanded the property starting in 1902, building hotels and bathhouses that became especially popular with Jewish guests who were turned away from other California resorts of that era. In the decades that followed, the site took on a string of unlikely second lives — a 1970s health clinic later exposed as fraudulent on 60 Minutes, and a Calvary Chapel Bible College campus beginning in 1995. In 2022, Olympus Real Estate Group purchased the property, and in February 2024 it reopened as a wellness resort with more than 50 geothermal pools, restoring the springs to their original purpose.

Today’s Murrieta Hot Springs is a well-established residential area of roughly 1,648 homes, primarily 2000s-era Spanish and Mediterranean-style single-family construction averaging around 2,528 square feet. Whether you’re buying your first home, moving up, or preparing to sell in this historic pocket of Murrieta, working with a local team that understands both the area’s housing stock and its unusual backstory can make a real difference.