Sorrento, Cypress CA
The top of the Cypress market, built in the 1990s on the old Texaco tank farm and sold by lottery.
Updated September 12, 2026
Sorrento is the top of the Cypress market and its newest large subdivision, at Ball and Moody, built on the former Texaco tank farm starting in 1991. It is four neighborhoods: the Classic, the Collection, the Collage, and the Gallery, with plans from about 2,237 to 3,927 square feet, many with three car garages. Top end buyers.
CRMLS closings December 2023 through September 2026, as of September 2026. Updated monthly. See the whole city on the Cypress buyer’s guide.
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What is Sorrento?
Sorrento sits at Ball and Moody on the Italian-named streets: Trevi, Portofino, Amalfi, Tivoli, Sorrento Drive. It is four neighborhoods: the Classic, the Collection, the Collage, and the Gallery. Cypress Homes, a Fieldstone company, developed it as a neighborhood of 671 homes over four to five years, with the Cypress Classics and the Cypress Collection designed by Berkus Group Architects. Phase One opened for sale in January 1991. Sales were by drawing at each phase; the interest list passed 1,200 names in spring 1990 and 2,000 by that fall. Cypress Homes also built Veterans Park, 6.3 acres, as part of the project.
The land before Sorrento
The site was a Texaco oil storage facility built in 1928, with 54 steel tanks, each about 40 feet tall and 145 feet across. Crude oil from Huntington Beach and other county fields was stored there until the early 1960s, and Southern California Edison leased 40 of the tanks for fuel oil until the summer of 1987. When Cypress Homes proposed 885 homes on the site that year, more than 300 people came to a special city meeting at the Community Center to object to the density, the traffic, and the contaminated soil. The plan came back at 759 homes in 1988, and the cleanup removed at least 36,000 cubic yards of oil-soaked soil and seven miles of pipeline before anything was built. The final count was 671.
The Sorrento plans
| Neighborhood | Plan | Size | Layout |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress Classics | One | 2,237 | 3 bed, 2.5 bath |
| Cypress Classics | Two | 2,541 | 4 bed, 3 bath, optional den |
| Cypress Classics | Three | 2,712 | 4 bed, 3 bath, upstairs teen room |
| Cypress Classics | Four | 2,885 | 4 bed, 3 bath, upstairs bonus room |
| Cypress Collection | One | 2,860 | 4 bed, upstairs study |
| Cypress Collection | Two | 3,007 | 4 bed, 3 bath, optional den plus teen room |
| Cypress Collection | Three | 3,171 | 4 bed, 3.5 bath, library |
| Cypress Collection | Four | 3,495 | 4 bed, 4.5 bath, optional den and bonus room |
| Collage (Van Daele, 1995 to 1996) | Residence One to Three | 2,854 to 3,927 | 4 to 6 bed, three car tandem garage on Residence Three |
Classics lots are a minimum of 5,000 square feet. Collection lots are 6,000 square feet or larger with three car garages. Gallery plans are not yet in my files.
What Sorrento sells for
Between December 2023 and September 2026, 13 Cypress Collection homes closed in CRMLS, from $800,000 to $2,400,000, with a median of $2,010,000. Collage closed 3 with a median of $1,920,000. The most common Collection sizes in recent sales are 3,349 to 3,350 and 3,614 square feet. Sorrento is the top of the Cypress market. The numbers on this page refresh monthly.
What schools serve Sorrento?
Two districts serve Cypress: the Cypress School District for grades K through 6 and the Anaheim Union High School District for 7 through 12. Boundaries vary street by street inside a subdivision, so check your exact address with each district. Ratings, the principal interviews, and the full school list are on the Cypress guide.
Sorrento questions
What was Sorrento in Cypress before the homes?
What are the neighborhoods in Sorrento?
How were Sorrento homes sold?
Cypress buyer’s guide Greenbrook Tanglewood Fairway Park Brentwood Lake Park
Thinking about Sorrento?
Tell me what you are looking for and I will tell you which plan fits, what it is actually selling for, and what to check before you write.
Or call or text me at 714.600.1176. Austin Criss, REALTOR®, RE/MAX Tiffany, DRE 02128057.