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An iconic north Palm Springs midcentury tract known for post-and-beam houses, butterfly rooflines, and indoor-outdoor design.
Location
Where Racquet Club Estates sits in Palm Springs
The highlighted boundary shows the neighborhood’s position within the City’s reporting map.
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Neighborhood overview
What Racquet Club Estates is like
Racquet Club Estates contains hundreds of recognizable modern homes associated with designers and builders including William Krisel, Jack Meiselman, and Donald Wexler. Wexler’s experimental steel houses are among the neighborhood’s most significant architectural landmarks.
This is a concise orientation, not a boundary or property-level determination. Use the official neighborhood map for an address lookup.
Permit history
Vacation-rental density over time
The solid line follows the City’s published density for Racquet Club Estates. The dashed line marks the 20% cap.
The interactive chart could not be loaded. The same monthly figures are available in the table below.
Only available City snapshots are shown, equally spaced. Lines connect consecutive months only; missing months are omitted, not estimated. Density can change when the City revises its residential-unit count.
| Month | Density | Registered permits | Available | Waitlisted permit requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 32.03% | 172 | 0 | 35 |
| September 2026 | 32.22% | 173 | 0 | 35 |
| August 2026 | 32.22% | 173 | 0 | 35 |
| December 2025 | 33.89% | 182 | 0 | 34 |
| December 2024 | 38.73% | 208 | — | 21 |
| May 2024 | 40.41% | 217 | — | 18 |
| April 2024 | 40.41% | 217 | — | 17 |
| March 2024 | 40.41% | 217 | — | 17 |
| February 2024 | 40.41% | 217 | — | 16 |
| January 2024 | 40.60% | 218 | — | 14 |
| December 2023 | 40.60% | 218 | — | 13 |
| November 2023 | 40.78% | 219 | — | 13 |
| October 2023 | 40.97% | 220 | — | 12 |
| September 2023 | 40.97% | 220 | — | 12 |
| August 2023 | 41.53% | 223 | — | 11 |
| July 2023 | 41.53% | 223 | — | 9 |
| June 2023 | 41.71% | 224 | — | 8 |
| May 2023 | 41.90% | 225 | — | 7 |
| April 2023 | 42.09% | 226 | — | 6 |
| March 2023 | 42.09% | 226 | — | 6 |
| February 2023 | 41.71% | 224 | — | 4 |
| January 2023 | 41.34% | 222 | — | 4 |
| December 2022 | 40.97% | 220 | — | 2 |
| November 2022 | 42.83% | 230 | — | — |
* A City-published permit waitlist takes precedence over calculated availability. A dash means the City source did not report that field.
Historical counts · Older definitions
Earlier vacation-rental counts
The City’s 2022 workshop exhibit records Racquet Club Estates from 2017 to 2022. The name is associated with this profile for reference; historical boundaries and the counted property types have not been established as equivalent to today’s reporting.
The chart is unavailable. All observations are provided in the table below.
Each dot is a recorded count, with no values inferred between dates. The 2021 observation has no exact date. These figures do not establish historical availability or waitlists, and today’s 20% cap is not applied.
| Recorded period | Vacation-rental count |
|---|---|
| December 2017 | 153 |
| December 2018 | 155 |
| December 2019 | 174 |
| December 2020 | 180 |
| 2021 (date unspecified) | 189 |
| February 1, 2022 | 198 |
| July 28, 2022 | 208 |
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Use the profile as a starting point
Neighborhood names and boundaries can evolve. Confirm an address independently, then use the latest Sandvue report to understand how many permits may currently be available in the neighborhood.