Laguna Beach Gated Communities

Smithcliffs is a quiet and exclusive gated community In North Laguna where homes rarely come on the market.  With only 23 homes in the community, Smithcliffs homes in Laguna Beach are seldom offered for sale.  The community is based on a circular street with homes located on both sides of the street.  Homes located of the bluff are wonderful oceanfront homes with views of the coastline and Emerald Bay.  One of the most sought after real estate in Smithcliffs are homes with ocean views. Currently there are only two listings being offered for sale with a new listing located on a corner lot with ocean views and the other listed as a short sale.  If you are looking for a very quiet and upscale area in Laguna Beach you may want to consider the Smithcliffs

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As Emerald Bay Laguna Beach Real Estate experts we pride ourselves in educating our clients about the various homes for sale in the Emerald Bay community located in North Laguna Beach.  One fact that most new comers to Laguna Beach don't realize is that there are two different sections to Emerald Bay, namely Upper Emerald Bay & Lower Emerald Bay.  Imagine driving on Pacific Coast Highway driving north through Laguna Beach on your way to Newport Coast.  As you cross the Emerald Bay community to your left and to your right you will see the two communities split between the Coast Highway.  Directly underneath you is a tunnel that is a pass through to these two communities in Emerald Bay.  If you have never been to Emerald Bay we would love to show you this

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Living in the private gated community of Emerald Bay in North Laguna Beach is like no other experience. The community boasts a private white sand beach with crystal clear blue waters, framed by jagged cliffs, and mild surf, perfect for swimming with the entire family. The sandy beach also features fire pits for your evening barbecue and roasting of marsh mellows while listening to the calm surf and enjoying a spectacular evening sunset. There is a playground for the kids right on the beach adjacent to the grassy tree lined park where many weekend concerts are provided for the residents.

Owning a golf cart makes travel a breeze while visiting the communities 6 Tennis Courts, Beach Volleyball, Gated Pool Complex, or Basketball Courts. Several green tree

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A lot of Laguna Beach home buyers like the convenience and security of living in a gated community.  This luxury doesn't come cheap In Laguna Beach, CA, and finding homes under $1,500,000 in a gated community is harder than you think.  There are 4 properties currently on the market in Laguna Beach that fits this criteria and all of them are located in the Blue Lagoon gated community in the Laguna Village area.  The Blue Lagoon was originally built in 1964 and has different buildings located throughout the community.  You will find oceanfront and ocean view buildings located in separate areas in Blue Lagoon.  Oceanfront condos will start at $1,500,000 and have direct ocean and white water views.  The Blue Lagoon truly is ideally located with Victoria Beach

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We get a lot of inquiries from Laguna Beach buyers wanting to know where the most expensive streets are located in Laguna Beach, California.  There are two ways to look at this, one is the actual highest price sales that have occurred on any given street in Laguna Beach.  The second way would be to look at the currently available homes for sale and determine the most expensive street currently for sale in Laguna Beach.  Historically, if you look at sales for the past 10 years there is a true winner for the most expensive street in Laguna Beach, namely "Emerald Bay."  Emerald Bay street in the gated community of Emerald Bay has the highest reported sold home in Laguna Beach for $19,00,000 located at 168 Emerald Bay.  There have been reported an even higher…

One of the earliest communities built here in Laguna Beach was the luxury gated community of Emerald Bay.  Like Three Arch Bay, Emerald Bay located in North Laguna has a rich and long history of having some of the early homes built in Laguna Beach, California.  Back then, a lot of these homes were used as second residences as vacation homes.  A good example of these historic homes is a recent hometo come on the market in Emerald Bay with all the charm and personality you would expect from a historic home built in Southern California during the 1920's.  We specialize in the historic homes here in Laguna Beach and understand the nuances of these older homes.  Many of these homes are eligible for the Mills Act which gives historic homeowners tax breaks for…

If you are thinking about buying a luxury home in the Three Arch Bay community it's important to know what has sold in recent months.  For those not familiar with Laguna Beach Real Estate, Three Arch Bay is a upper end 24 hour guard gated community on the south side of Laguna Beach with oceanfront, ocean and coastline view homes.  Currently there are 20 listings on the market in Three Arch Bay ranging from $750,000 to $19,500,000.   Three of these homes are currently in escrow for the properties listed for $750.000, $2,395,000 and $8,988,000.  The two properties listed at $750,000 and $2,395,000 are ocean view properties located in the Upper Three Arch Bay community.  Finding a home in Three Arch Bay in the mid $700,000 range is a tremendous value for the

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Finding the most expensive gated communities in Laguna Beach, CA is easy if you know where to look.  Our Laguna Beach Real Estate agents work daily with Laguna Beach buyers wanting information on the most exclusive places to live.  One easy way to find the most expensive communities is to do a home search and see where the most expensive homes for sale are located.  An easier way is to talk with a local real estate expert who knows the inside story on the different communities to live in.  Here are the 5 most expensive communities.  1)  Emerald Bay, 2) Smithcliffs, 3) Three Arch Bay, 4) Irvine Cove, 5) Montage Residences.  It's not uncommon in any of these five communities to have homes for sale in the $5 million dollar range and up.  Montage Residences

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If you have lived in the Laguna Beach for any length of time you are familiar with the local designer Greg Abel.  The Abel name carries a lot of weight here in Southern California with wonderfully designed beach homes all throughout Orange County.  A newly listed home has come on the market that was designed by Greg Able in 1988 and features classic lines that take in the wonderful ocean views, now listed for $6,500,000.  The South Laguna Bluffs area is none for it's wonderful ocean view homes.  A birdseye view shows you the close proximity to the Secret Cove beach and situated just north of the Laguna Lido and south of the Montage Resort & Spa Residences in South Laguna Beach.  From this location there are many local shops and restaurants and some of the…

If you are in the market to buy an oceanfront home in Southern California there is no better place to look than Laguna Beach, California.  Laguna Beach is home to many oceanfront homes ranging from custom oceanfront estate homes to oceanfront homes located in luxury gated communities.  Unlike other parts of the country, oceanfront homes in California are located relatively close to each other and finding privacy amongst these homes is hard to find.  A newly listed home in the lower Three Arch Bay gated community in Laguna Beach, Ca offers the utmost in privacy with a unique location that sits on a cliff with it's own swimming pool at the beachfront and ocean level.  Three Arch Bay is divided into two parts, one part sits on the upper end known as Upper…