Who’d pay $18 million for a 33-acre monastery in south Orange County?

Sky view of St. Michael’s Abbey in Trabuco Canyon. (Courtesy: Hoffman Co.)
So what’s the best use of 33 acres of largely undeveloped land in the Orange County foothills in a community filled with housing construction?
The marketplace is about to tell us what land buyers are thinking as St. Michael’s Abbey in unincorporated Trabuco Canyon officially hits the market.
The Norbertine Fathers of Orange, owners of the religious campus and historic property, built the monastery and ed