Six places · fourteen miles
Fourteen miles of coast, six places to live.
We sell along one stretch and no further. Here is what each neighbourhood costs, what it is like, and what we have sold there.
Drawn by the office, September 2026
Hope Ranch to Toro Canyon · fourteen miles
The six
What each one costs, and what it is like.
Completed sales above $3M · twelve months to August 2026
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Hedged lanes between the foothills and Butterfly Beach. The lanes are private and mostly unmade, which is the point.
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Large single-storey houses on large plots, bridle paths between them, and a beach held in common by the association.
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Streets above the Mission where nearly every room sees water. Steep drives; check where the winter sun actually lands.
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Craftsman and Spanish Revival on a grid you can walk. The best value per square foot we sell, and the quickest to move.
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A village on a bluff with wide water and small plots. No longer the cheaper Montecito, whatever you were told in 2019.
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Acreage, avocado groves and the longest private drives on the coast. Fewest sales, highest median, slowest to sell.
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Where we stop
Fourteen miles, and not a yard further.
Beyond Toro Canyon to the east and Hope Ranch to the west we do not know the lanes well enough to write an entry, so we decline the instruction and introduce you to an office that does. We have made eleven such introductions since 2009.