Laguna Beach Gated Communities

Many Laguna Beach homes offer a wide variety of amenities but very few can offer it's own private lighthouse!  A home in the Three Arch Bay gated community in Laguna Beach, California has just come on the market and offers a lighthouse that sits on the ocean front with private steps down to the ocean which offers a luxury swimming pool located adjacent to the ocean!  The oceanfront home located at 40 N La Senda Dr in Lower Three Arch Bay is currently on the market for $24,950,000 and offers spectacular ocean and white water views and comes with a detached guest house as well.

The home was originally built in 1929 and is one of the original homes built in the Three Arch Bay community.  The home was it's own private beach and swimming pool that has been

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Camel Point is a quiet residential neighborhood of 15 homes located in a premier oceanfront location.  The community offers 8 homes located on the ocean front with an additional 7 ocean view properties.  This is a small gated community that offers direct access down to the beach as pictured below.  Since the community is home to only 15 properties homes rarely come on the market here.  The neighborhood has a nice mixture of contemporary as well as older historic homes.  An ocean view property is now being offered for sale for $4,595,000.  I had a chance to preview this home and the 5 bedroom home really did offer nice views of the ocean. 

The views are mainly over the rooftops of the properties located on the oceanfront as pictured below.  In addition,

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Crescent Bay Villas is a incredible condo building located in the plush North Laguna Beach area.  The complex sits next to two of the most expensive gated communities in Laguna known as "Smithcliffs" and "Emerald Bay."  This is a very small complex of 17 luxury two story town homes located in a secure gated community.  The floor plans are fairly simple with the bedrooms and bath located on the first level and kitchen and entertainment spaces located on the upper level.  What these condos offer is a lot of natural light with floor to ceiling windows, sleek modern architectural design and a quiet location.  

There is currently one condo listed for sale for $995,000.  It's located in the middle of the complex and offers 2 bedrooms, 2 baths with 1,760 square…

The Laguna Sands is a large condo complex that sits directly on the beach.  The building itself is going through a major renovation with scaffolding blocking the outdoor view deck on the lower level.  This is a popular spot for those looking to rent an ocean front condos as the lower units form an L-Shape around the pool and have sandy white water views as pictured below.

Currently, there are two rental listings in Laguna Sands and feature a 3 bedroom unit listed for $8,500 a month and a 2 bedroom unit on the market for $6,000 a month.  The complex has a safe gated entrance and located next door to the popular Surf and Sand Hotel and offers units with private balconies that overlook the ocean. 

The views are simply amazing with four floor located on

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Another $50 million dollar plus home has come on the market in the exclusive Irvine Cove community in North Laguna Beach. 2431 Riviera Drive has just hit the market for $55 million dollars and is listed by Hilton & Hyland.  What makes this home unique is the location. Laguna Beach has very few beach front homes that sit directly on the beach and are located in a gated community. 2431 Riviera Dr features 180 feet of water frontage, arguably in one of the best communities in Laguna Beach and is one of only 5 beach front homes in the entire Irvine Cove community.

The home features six bedrooms with 10,000 square feet of living space with vaulted wood beam ceilings, sliding glass doors that open to the pool & spa. Some of the highlights of the home

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The Three Arch Bay community has seen a huge number of homes come on the market in the last week.  In the last 7 days we have seen a total of 5 new listings that have come on the market in the Laguna Beach gated community that is known as "Three Arch Bay."  This is a very desirable community in Laguna Beach that normally only has a small selection of homes on the market at any given time.  A home located at 110 S La Send just came on the market a little over two weeks ago for $8,495,000 and went into escrow after being on the market for just one short week.  The home was a single level home that was located at the very south point and had amazing views of the Three Arch Bay as pictured below.  Prime properties are still high in demand even in this price

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Blue Lagoon is one of the oldest ocean front condo buildings in the Laguna Beach area which spans an approximate 4.3 miles of land and located next to the luxury Montage Resort & Spa.  This is a very large complex with a total of 119 units.  There are two types of condos in this unit that comprise of 2 level town home style condos.  The other type is the single level units that offer condo living all on one level.  The community offers two resort style heated pools which are pictured below.  One is located very close to the ocean and the other pool is located near the Pacific Coast Highway entrance.

The condos here slowly wind down from the beach from Coast Highway and allow residents to walk directly on to the sandy beach as pictured below.  This

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As recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, Laguna Beach has seen one of the largest homes sales in 2013 located at the exclusive gated community known as "Irvine Cove."  The property located at 2495 Riviera Dr in Laguna Beach has sold for a record $33 million on 10/25/13 according to our Realist tax records.  The property was one of the few homes that opens directly on to the sand in the Irvine Cove community and located just south of the beach trail that Irvine Cove residents use to get down to the beach.

The home featured five bedroom with a total of 7,200 square feet of living space and was newly constructed in 2012.  The home blended the use of glass and wood with direct views of the ocean and sandy beach.  A central courtyard pool

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The Abalone Community is a luxury neighborhood behind the gates of the Irvine Cove community in Laguna Beach, California.  The land contains 13 large luxury properties that were hand picked by the Irvine company many years ago.  They have remained within the family until several years ago when several of the homes started coming up for sale.  Today, 4 of the 13 homes are currently available for sale between $14.5 to $65 million dollars.

Today, an open house was held at 2620 Riviera Drive in the Abalone Point neighborhood.  The home is very large with 9,000 square feet of living space on 3 separate levels and currently listed for sale for $14,500,000.  The home is very grand in the Mediterranean style and features wonderful ocean views from various rooms

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Emerald Bay in Laguna Beach is a large community of over 300 homes with a large majority of them offering views of the ocean and the Emerald Bay beach.  There is a small selection of homes in the Emerald Bay community that offer views of the Irvine Cove community looking north.   These homes are located on the north side (left hand side) of the ridge as pictured below.

 

When the the Emerald Bay community was first developed the homes located on the north ridge of the community had homes located on both sides of the ridge.  The Emerald Bay street raps around the ridge so depending on which side of the street you live on will determine if you have views of Emerald Bay or Irvine Cove.  Approximately 17 homes offer such a view of the Irvine Cove

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