Coastal Real Estate Guide – Your Guide to Orange County Real Estate
Stepping Inside a Home as Pretty as its Setting
Featured Property: Dana Point This unusual property faces the Monarch Links Golf Course, providing residents with views of emerald greens and sapphire waves. This four bedroom, three-bath home within the gated Monarch Bay Beach includes membership in the Monarch Beach Club until 2020. Aside from the sand-level club, residents can take advantage of a sweeping [...]
Featured Property: Newport Beach
Craftsman Bungalow on a Huge Lot Breathtaking custom one-story estate on a huge lot between Promontory and Beacon Bays. This extraordinary craftsman bungalow is located on a 15,000+ square foot corner lot across the street from the entrance to Beacon Bay & Harbor Island. The main home has a wonderful living/great room with a marvelous [...]
Featured Property: Newport Coast
Estate-sized View Home on the Market This villa-sized home with Italian influences boasts sweeping views of the Pacific and beyond to Palos Verdes from its Newport Coast perch. Its white oak flooring radiates a rich glow under the vaulted ceilings and archways of the formal dining and living rooms, the gourmet kitchen and informal living [...]
Featured Property: Corona del Mar
Custom Home Goes Under the Gavel A dramatic Newport Harbor home with ocean and Catalina Island views is set for auction on Dec. 16, with the sellers hoping for a $3.8 million bid. The 4,200-foot custom residence was reconstructed in 2008 and outfitted with designer finishes. The open floor plan includes about 1,642 feet of exterior [...]
Featured Property: Laguna Beach
Custom Home Embraces Its Setting No detail has been spared in this contemporary custom home designed by renowned Laguna Beach architect Morris Skenderian. Built from the ground up in 2008, the home sits one row off the sand in the gated community of Lagunita. The elegant home boasts panoramic ocean and island views and features [...]
Featured Property: Emerald Bay
Custom Residence With All the Amenities Overlooking Emerald Bay’s expansive private beach, this custom residence offers the finest in seaside living. The home utilizes the highest grade of materials, making this property ideal for sumptuous entertaining and everyday living. Meticulously maintained, the 6,000-square-foot home includes 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 3 fireplaces, a 3-story elevator, an [...]
Neighborhood Spotlight
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Turning Missed Opportunities into Profitable Solutions
A specialist in the lifestyle architecture and design industry, Kimberly Norton of KNStyle describes herself as the go-to pro for private clients and Fortune-500 companies aspiring to create a luxury experience in their space. Norton’s new service, HouseCalls, brings affordable solutions to homeowners, real estate agents and other industry professionals aiming to up the value [...]
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Celebrity Designer Tackles Newport Coast Home
Newport Coast Ron Dayan, a member of the British Institute Interior Design and design director for Beverly Hills Interiors, Inc., over the years applied his aesthetic to homes owned by celebrity industrialists to A-list actors. For a Dubai plastic surgeon that purchased a Newport Coast home from a developer, Dayan opted to create an eccentric [...]
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Beach Haven
Cameo Shores Introduction to the enclave: Cameo Shores is one of the Pacific’s finest oceanfront locations and the farthest southern Corona del Mar communities. Situated on the “ocean” side of Pacific Coast Hwy, the area is treasured for its location built on terraced lots above the beaches, many homes enjoy a coastal or [...]
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Q & A
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One on One With Jenette Di Fazio
Wielding the Power of Color By Gina Dostler Life blooms in a full flush of colors and there is no better place to create it than in the home. From bold exterior paints to the delightful interiors of a home, bright colors are making their way into living rooms, kitchens and baths. Jenette Di Fazio [...]
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One on One with Martin Boyd
Applying Just-in-Time Manufacturing to Home Building By Gina Dostler Martin Boyd loves making things happen. He is vice president of sales and marketing for homebuilder RSI Development LLC, which builds energy efficient homes in 40 working days or less. RSI focuses on replacing old, dated houses with new, high-quality, energy-efficient homes at surprising prices. The [...]
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One on One with Jarrod Frey
Turning a Beach Home into a Summer Rental By Gina Dostler Jarrod Frey, of Abrams Coastal Properties, helps homeowners rent their Balboa Island and the Newport area homes and keep tenants from all over the world happy and ready to return again and again. He manages more than 50 rentals gives compelling reasons and assurances [...]
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Home & Garden
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Decoding Myths on How to Heat and Cool Homes
By Colin Martodam, Special to the Coastal Real Estate Guide If you’ve been told closing air vents in unused rooms in your home will allow faster or more concentrated airflow into other rooms, or that leaving your ceiling fan on while you’re not home will help cool the house faster, you’ve fallen victim to [...]
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Chief’s Corner: Snakes Alive! It’s Spring
By Sam DiGiovanna It’s springtime so naturally people and snakes begin to share the outdoors and encounters with snakes become inevitable. California has a variety of snakes, most of which are benign. The exception is California’s only native venomous snake – the rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes generally strike when threatened or deliberately provoked, but given room they [...]
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Quintessentially Newport
Local designers reflect the city’s casual sophistication in their stunning indoor and outdoor spaces.- By Vicki Hogue-Davies Newport Beach boasts an interesting and eclectic mix of architecture and home design styles within its multiple neighborhoods. Here, local interior and architectural designers highlight rooms they have designed in the city and explain what makes these particular spaces [...]
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News
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Decoding Myths on How to Heat and Cool Homes
By Colin Martodam, Special to the Coastal Real Estate Guide If you’ve been told closing air vents in unused rooms in your home will allow faster or more concentrated airflow into other rooms, or that leaving your ceiling fan on while you’re not home will help cool the house faster, you’ve fallen victim to [...]
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Chief’s Corner: Snakes Alive! It’s Spring
By Sam DiGiovanna It’s springtime so naturally people and snakes begin to share the outdoors and encounters with snakes become inevitable. California has a variety of snakes, most of which are benign. The exception is California’s only native venomous snake – the rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes generally strike when threatened or deliberately provoked, but given room they [...]
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Laguna Beach Market Update
Open house visitors in Laguna Beach are consistently curious about the current state of our real estate market. Most buyers are armed with a wealth of general real estate information that has very little relevance locally. The coastline areas tend to be just local in their property values and Laguna Beach in particular has no [...]
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Other Recent Articles
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Corona del Mar (May 17, 2013)
This Week The median list price in Corona del Mar this week is $3,099,500. Inventory and days on market are both trending higher recently. However, the improving Market Action Index implies some increased demand will temper the negative trends. Supply and Demand The market continues to get hotter. More sales demand and fewer homes listed [...]
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Laguna Beach (May 17, 2013)
This Week The median list price in Laguna Beach this week is $2,499,000. The Market Action Index has been trending down lately, while inventory is climbing. These trends imply a weakening market. Supply and Demand The market has been consistently cool for several weeks. Demand levels are low relative to the available inventory. It’s a [...]
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Newport Beach (May 17, 2013)
This Week The median price in Newport Beach is $2,199,000. The Market Action Index has been climbing lately, while days on market are trending down. These point to a positive near-term outlook for the market. Supply and Demand Home sales have been exceeding new inventory for several weeks. However prices have not yet stopped falling. [...]
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Newport Coast (May 17, 2013)
This Week The median list price in Newport Coast this week is $4,290,000. Even though days on market are trending higher, so is the Market Action Index at these inventory levels, providing a neutral outlook for the market. Supply and Demand The market continues to get hotter. More sales demand and fewer homes listed have [...]
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Featured Property: Newport Beach (May 17, 2013)
Welcoming Touches Enrich ’04 Remodel. Located on an oversized lot in the highly coveted neighborhood of Dover Shores, this single-level, four- bedroom, three-bath residence welcomes visitors with a private brick courtyard bordered with lush landscaping and a leaded glass front door. The main living area features an open floor plan with a large great room [...]
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Featured Property: Laguna Beach (As of Friday, May 10)
Style-setting Modernist in Residence at Victoria Beach A new ocean-view contemporary home just steps from Victoria Beach is on the market. Taking its architectural cues from modernists and Nantucket, the home blends sophisticated beach chic with stunning style. Soaring walls of glass and ceilings of sky-lights bring the outdoors in. With windows opening on ocean-view [...]
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Corona del Mar (as of Friday, May 10)
This Week The median list price in Corona del Mar this week is $2,950,000. The Market Action Index has been trending down lately, while inventory is climbing. These trends imply a weakening market. Supply and Demand In terms of supply and demand, the market is getting cooler. More supply is coming on the market relative [...]
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Laguna Beach (as of Friday, May 10)
This Week The median list price in Laguna Beach this week is $2,495,000. Inventory is up, and market action is trending down recently. While days on market appear to be trending lower, the overall conditions are weakening a bit. Supply and Demand The Market Action Index has been trending lower for several weeks, while prices [...]
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