HOT PROPERTY: If you owned a house...

HOT PROPERTY: If you owned a house lot in Orange County in the ‘80s, you made money. But if it was on Harbor Island, the private enclave for the wealthy (E1), you made tons . . . . For example: When Gladys Gardiner gave her double lot to Hoag Hospital in 1981, it was worth $2.4 million. When she died in 1989, Hoag sold it for $6.6 million. A year later, it was valued at $9.2 million. . . . All that for land that could have been bought for $10,000 in 1932.