Laguna Beach forms the crown jewel of The OC Riviera and has long been Southern California's premier seaside artist haven. Though world famous and the subject of a hit MTV reality show, Laguna Beach still possesses a unique small-town charm rarely found anywhere else. Quaint coastal cottages framed by subtropical gardens line bluffs above sandy coves along a seven mile picturesque coastline. Inland, luxuriant foliage and seaview homes cover canyons and ridges that tower more than 1,000 feet above the ocean.

Artists began arriving here over a century ago (Norman St. Claire in 1903) soon followed by the Hollywood elite. Bette Davis, Mary Pickford, Mary Miles Minter, Victor Mature, Judy Garland, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Rooney all maintained homes in Laguna Beach. In 1920 a group of them founded the Laguna Playhouse - the oldest continuously operating theatre company on the west coast.

Today, visitors from around the world come to Laguna Beach to enjoy the Pageant of the Masters/Festival of Arts, the Sawdust Festival, Art-A-Fair and the Laguna Beach Film Festival as well as the fine shops, art galleries, restaurants and hotels, many with breathtaking sunset views.

 Laguna Beach Real Estate

Laguna Beach real estate offers breathtaking beauty and incomparable architecture from the exclusive communities of Irvine Cove and Emerald Bay as you enter town from the north all the way to Three Arch Bay in the south. In between are the hillside homes and cottages of North Laguna, the charming Laguna Village and the ocean vistas in South Laguna. Homes range from romatic cottages from the 1930's to ultramodern beach front estates.

The luxury home market in Laguna Beach remains strong although the average sale price in 2007 for a single family luxury home (top 10% of the market) was $8,135,506, down slightly from the $8,198,138 average price in 2006. The average days on the market for a home over $10,000,000 was 87 days in 2007, up from 59 days in 2006.

Coastal Orange County Real Estate and Distinctive Homes