Five houses · 143 registered buyers

Sold without ever being advertised.

Some owners will sell, but will not photograph their house for a portal. These five are described in full to registered buyers, and shown by appointment only.

By private treaty

This season’s five

No photographs are published, here or anywhere

P-01

A Spanish Colonial of 1928, seven bedrooms on 3.1 acres

Riven Rock. Original tile and ironwork throughout, a walled garden of mature citrus, and a guest house rebuilt in 2015. Sold once before, in 1974.

Guide
On application
Available
Immediately

P-02

A single-storey modernist of 1971 with a private beach path

Hope Ranch. Four bedrooms in one line facing the water, a courtyard pool, and forty yards of path down to the sand, held with two neighbours.

Guide
On application
Available
From March

P-03

A hillside villa with a channel view from every room

The Riviera. Built 1936, extended twice, and never let. Five bedrooms over three floors, with the kitchen at the top where the view is.

Guide
On application
Available
Immediately

P-04

An estate of 11 acres with a working avocado grove

Toro Canyon. Two houses, one of them let to the grove manager, and a mile of private drive. The grove has produced every year since 1988.

Guide
On application
Available
By negotiation

P-05

A village house on the bluff, three bedrooms, wide water

Summerland. The smallest on this list and the one we are asked for most often. Walled garden, no through road, and the train is audible twice an hour.

Guide
On application
Available
From January

How it works

Register once. Everything else is by post.

The list is not a newsletter. It is a short written particular for each house, sent to the buyers it actually suits.

1

Register with proof of funds

And a sentence about what you are looking for. A partner reads every registration.

2

Receive the particulars

Printed and posted. Private houses, and every public entry eleven days before launch.

3

View with the partner

By appointment, accompanied, never in a group, and never photographed.

The only photograph on this page, and it is of our own staircase

Discretion

What we will not do.

Four rules, and the reason the list exists at all. A vendor who asks for discretion is asking for something specific, so it is written down rather than implied.

We do not share the list, sell it, or let anyone else write to it.
We do not name a private vendor, or their street, before a viewing is agreed.
We do not photograph a private house for any purpose, including our own records.
We do not hold open days, and we never show two buyers on the same afternoon.

The private list

143 buyers are registered this season.

A partner writes back within one working day, usually with a question about what you are looking for.

We never share it.