Noteworthy new listings….
The two-bedroom Moody Sisters cottage at 511 Miramonte Drive ($2.295 million) was built in 1930 on N. Jameson Lane and relocated at some point to the area north of SBCC. Even in a neighborhood with a lot of cute houses, it stands out. Inside is going to need work, but the living room has innate drama, what with the reading loft and sunken dining room at one end.
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Built in 1953, 3559 Padaro Lane ($11 million) has a bit of a poker face from the street—you enter around the side—with a jaunty asymmetrical roofline running the length of the house. One could could obviously do nothing and embrace it as a beach getaway, but I’d be tempted to take it in a more ’70s Big Sur direction (see 75 Conejo Road, further down)—a style that could even work with the existing tile floor. And the upstairs primary really wants its own bathroom rather than a shared one down the hall.
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320 Ortega Ridge Road ($10.75 million) wasn’t open this week, so the main question—how much that ocean-view yard is affected by the street below—remains unanswered. And I think the floors are painted wood, but I can’t quite tell. It’s single-level, and the interiors appear solid. I wish it had a pool, but when you look at an aerial, it’s not clear whether there’s room. Much of the 2.78-acre lot, on the far side of the driveway, is roadside buffer.
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You pay a premium for the location of 411 Lemon Grove Lane ($4.295 million), a 1925 three-bedroom a hop and a skip from Montecito Union School. It has period charm in the living room, but happily, the kitchen and family room (staged as a dining room), with its high ceiling, feel more like today than yesteryear. The backyard has two small outbuildings for time outs.
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Some houses, like 505 Alston Road ($3.95 million), simply have good energy. Like at 411 Lemon Grove, the high-ceilinged family room is extremely welcome; other pluses include the large primary, prettily landscaped backyard, and sound wall along much of the street. The floor plan, with the three guest rooms sharing a bath, is best suited to a couple.
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75 Conejo Road ($3.895 million) clicked even when it was a fixer back in 2020, when it sold for $1.325 million. Those buyers worked magic on the interiors and sold it for $2.85 million in July 2024. The current owners left the insides looking sharp and invested in the infrastructure and exterior, most noticeably brick paving along the decks. It’s a handsome devil, albeit heavy on stairs.
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622 E. Valerio Street ($3.595 million) looks like a simple cottage from the street, but it drops down the Lower Riviera hillside, with a guest apartment and pool on the lower level. Surfaces could use updating—mixing up the color palette (or just painting everything white) would go a long way—but the floors are fine.
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Speaking of painting it white…. 704 Chiquita Road ($2.695 million) illustrates what you can do with uninspired 1970s architecture if you strip it clean and go full white. Located at the end of a cul-de-sac, on a shared driveway lined with cypresses, it has remarkable privacy, along with an unobstructed city-and-ocean view. It’d make a great weekend house, particularly for an individual who doesn’t like to cook all that much. Love the plumbed bathtub off to the side.
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I haven’t seen 53 Tierra Cielo Lane ($2.6 million), and there aren’t many photos, which would normally be enough to relegate it to the “few others to check out” section at the bottom of the post. I think, however, it could come back as a spec reno—the floor plan works well enough, and the .69-acre lot includes a pool—so I wanted to run the photos as a reference for next time.
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And a few others worth checking out:
••• 727 Garden Street ($4.4 million): Four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath penthouse at the corner of De La Guerra Street (below); includes a pair of commercial office spaces. N.B. “Property is on a ground lease with 30 years remaining.”
••• 2643 Freesia Drive ($3.995 million): Four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath in the Summerland Cottages gated community.
••• 2627 Clinton Terrace ($2.549 million) 1950 three-bedroom, three-bath Mediterranean in Samarkand.
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