Sherwood Development Company

What Sherwood Development Company does

Sherwood Development Company, L.P. is a privately held California limited partnership and licensed real estate developer (License #01998625) operating since its founding in 1989. The company is the sole developer of the Sherwood master-planned community in Lake Sherwood, Thousand Oaks, California, encompassing approximately 660 residences across a 1,900-acre guard-gated enclave in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking Lake Sherwood reservoir. The community includes a guard-gated golf-club section, three electronic-gated neighborhoods, and lake-view homes along Lake Sherwood Drive. Sherwood Development Company markets, sells, and constructs custom luxury estates and vacant lots within the community, with homes typically ranging from 4,700 to 5,300+ sq ft featuring premium amenities such as private elevators, home automation systems, and multi-car garages. Current pipeline includes custom estates (Deerview, Oakwood) scheduled for May 2026 completion and available lots (Loma Vista, Sunny Hill, Grand View).

The company operates under a sales-led go-to-market model through a single on-site sales office at 2300 Norfield Court, Thousand Oaks, supported by an interactive website with property listings, virtual tours, and a Mapbox-powered map. Revenue is generated through three streams: (1) one-time land sales of vacant lots for custom home construction (program launched 2008), (2) one-time new construction home sales of custom luxury estates, and (3) licensing/royalty revenue from club operations under the Castle & Cooke corporate umbrella. The company is legally separate from Castle & Cooke, Inc. and Dole Food Company, Inc., per its legal disclaimer, despite brand association. The two affiliated clubs — Sherwood Country Club (7,052-yard par-72 Jack Nicklaus championship course) and Sherwood Lake Club (first 'Bear's Best' par-3 course in the country) — provide amenity infrastructure but memberships are sold separately from home purchases.

Sherwood Development Company serves a single customer segment: high-net-worth individuals and families seeking luxury residential living in an exclusive, guard-gated community with championship golf access, top-rated Conejo Valley schools, and proximity to Malibu and Greater Los Angeles. The company employs 101-250 people and is led by a stable, long-tenured team including President Nathan Stockmeir (joined 2015), VP Operations Sha Dinkel (since 2002), and Sales Associate/Marketing Coordinator Lorie Alaimo (since 2006). The company holds no patents, has no subsidiaries, has not raised external funding, and operates exclusively in the Lake Sherwood, California market with no geographic expansion signals.

Name

Sherwood Development Company

Legal name

Sherwood Development Company, L.P.

Website

https://sherwoodrealestate.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Sherwood Development Company, L.P. is a private California real estate developer that builds and sells luxury custom homes and lots within the 1,900-acre, guard-gated Lake Sherwood community in Thousand Oaks, CA, serving high-net-worth buyers seeking exclusive residences with Jack Nicklaus-designed golf amenities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Thousand Oaks

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Land Sales: Sale of vacant lots within the Sherwood Country Club community for custom home construction. The company implemented its first land sales program in 2008.
2. New Construction Home Sales: Construction and sale of custom luxury homes in the Lake Sherwood community. Homes feature premium finishes, architectural designs, and are built on available lots within the guard-gated community.
3. Club Operations (Sherwood Lake Club): Sherwood Lake Club is under the Castle & Cooke corporate umbrella, providing golf, tennis, swimming, dining and social amenities to members.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Sherwood Development Company, L.P. is a luxury real estate developer that markets and sells custom-built homes and vacant residential lots within the Sherwood Country Club guard-gated community in Lake Sherwood, California. The company constructs premium custom estates featuring high-end finishes, architectural designs, and modern amenities such as private elevators, home automation, and gourmet kitchens. The community of approximately 660 residences spans the Santa Monica Mountains and includes access to two Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses (Sherwood Country Club championship course and Sherwood Lake Club par-3 course).

Product overview

Sherwood Development Company is a luxury real estate development company that markets and sells custom homes within the Sherwood Country Club gated community in Lake Sherwood, California. The company operates as a single-product luxury real estate marketing platform with affiliated country club amenities. Available properties include newly constructed estates (Deerview, Oakwood, Loma Vista, Sunny Hill, Grand View) and resale homes. The community features two Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses: the 7,052-yard par-72 Sherwood Country Club championship course and the par-3 Sherwood Lake Club course. Home purchases do not include club memberships; memberships must be obtained separately through the clubs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sherwood Country Club Real Estate

Quantifiable outcome

• Community served by Conejo Valley Unified School District ranked among top 100 places to live by Money Magazine
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Castle & Cooke, Inc.coreOthersSherwood Development Company operates in association with Castle & Cooke, Inc. The Sherwood Lake Club is under the Castle & Cooke corporate umbrella. Castle & Cooke, Inc. is a separate entity from the developer (Sherwood Development Company, L.P.) and Dole Food Company, Inc.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Shea Homes: Private master-planned community developer active across the Western U.S., including luxury and active-adult communities. Closely comparable as a developer of amenity-rich residential master-planned communities in California.
• Toll Brothers: National luxury home builder operating move-up and luxury segments including in California. Directly comparable as a public-market luxury single-family home builder with similar custom and high-end production product.
• Tri Pointe Homes: Public homebuilder with a meaningful luxury and move-up presence in California. Comparable in building premium homes in coastal California markets with similar affluent buyer profiles.
• FivePoint Holdings: Public master-planned community developer in California (Great Park Neighborhoods, Valencia). Comparable as a developer of large-scale, amenity-driven planned residential communities in Southern California markets.
• The Irvine Company: Private developer of the Irvine master-planned community in Orange County, California. Comparable in operating a large, amenity-rich, long-tenure master-planned community with luxury and family-oriented housing.

Broad incumbents

• Taylor Morrison: Top-5 U.S. homebuilder with luxury and resort-community product lines including in California and Arizona. Operates in the same luxury homebuilding category but at national scale across many geographies and price points.
• Lennar: One of the largest U.S. homebuilders with a luxury division (including CalAtlantic assets) active across California. Broad incumbent in the same residential development space, but operates at much greater scale across all price points.

Emerging players

• Discovery Land Company: Private developer of ultra-luxury, amenity-rich residential communities (often with private golf). Conceptually comparable in developing exclusive, gated, golf-anchored luxury residential enclaves, though typically at higher-end price points and different geographies.

Regional players

• Rancho Mission Viejo: Private master-planned community developer in Orange County / South Orange County, California. Comparable as a long-tenure developer of a large master-planned community in Southern California, though with a broader range of price points.

Others

• Castle & Cooke: Diversified real estate and land development company whose logo appears on Sherwood's website and under whose corporate umbrella the Sherwood Lake Club operates. Explicitly a separate legal entity from Sherwood Development Company, L.P., but commercially affiliated — useful as a corporate/strategic adjacency reference.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/sherwoodestates
• Xx.com/sherwoodestates

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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