Noteworthy new listings….
1284 Mesa Road ($21.995 million) has a lot going for it. Pedigree, for one thing: it was designed by George Washington Smith and completed in 1922. Location, for another: the Lower Village has been hot for years, and 1.4 acres is big for the area (even if much of that is buffer from Olive Mill Road). And let’s not forget style: while I might take some of the interiors in a more sophisticated direction, the fundamentals are strong. P.S. That water feature extending into the lawn is pure magic.
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Two of those three boxes also get checked by 1166 Summit Road ($11.5 million), not far away. And while it can’t boast much of a pedigree, the farmhouse style is lighter and brighter than Spanish Colonial Revival. With four bedrooms and a two-bedroom guest house, it should prove tempting to a broad swath of the Montecito market.
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A 1957 four-bedroom on the train-track side of Butterfly Beach, 1114 Hill Road ($6.995 million) has just one photo of the property. Let’s hope the LGBTQ+ pride continues inside.
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The midcentury lines of the main house at 3880/3882 Foothill Road ($3.895 million) are cool, even if you may end up having to put bird-deterring decals on some of those big, beautiful windows. The three-bedroom “ADU cottage,” however, looks like it came in on a flatbed truck.
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The seller of 512 Plaza Rubio ($3.85 million), across from the Mission, has made some changes since he/she purchased the 1954 three-bedroom in the fall of 2023 for $3.508 million. The kitchen floor is now wood, and the driveway appears to have been painted McDonald’s red. (Why? It was brick.) The pink bathroom remains on the to-do list—and I say that as someone who likes a vintage bath.
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The numbers for 1430 Count Fleet Street ($27 million), east of Santa Ynez, don’t totally add up: it sold in 2020 for $6 million, and it was built in 1995, so perhaps the property was added onto somehow. (It’s currently 116 acres.) Anyway, that’s for a prospective buyer to figure out while we savor the very RH country-club style inside and out. The equestrian facilities include “a professional eight-stall barn with an office, employee lounge, one full bath, two half baths, kitchenette, wash racks, and tack rooms,” along with “two equipment barns, a 300-by-150 foot working arena with roping setup, covered round pen, hot walker, and expansive trailer parking.”
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And a few others worth checking out:
••• 2775 Sycamore Canyon Road ($5.495 million): Floops of a 1930 house with spiffy new ADU on one acre; the seller paid $5.3 million in November 2024.
••• 512 E. Islay Street ($1.595 million): 1916 cottage just 856 square feet.
••• 325 Salida del Sol ($2.4 million): Four-bedroom, two-bath “blank canvas” on the Mesa for sale by owner; “I am not currently in Santa Barbara and cannot provide pictures at this time. But if you are highly interested, I can arrange for entry to the home.” I should hope so!
••• 231 Salida del Sol ($3.5 million): Meanwhile, down the street (below)…. People love the Mesa, sure, but shouldn’t $3.5 million get you something that could at least pass for turnkey on a dark night?
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