Laguna Beach, CA. offers some of the most spectacular Ocean View properties in all of southern California. The city slopes slightly in from the beach, and then ascends into hills and local mountain tops, thus providing many home-sites with majestic ocean and coastline views. The beaches in Laguna are some of the most scenic in southern California due to the many white sandy beach coves, rock jetty's, crashing waves and steep cliffs. Due to the hilly terrain and some landslides over the years, the Laguna Beach building codes makes home construction very challenging and expensive. Permit costs, construction costs and land costs all add up to some of the most expensive real estate in the Nation. Relatively more affordable detached homes priced less then $2 Million that offer sweeping ocean views can be acquired in Arch Beach Heights, Summit Ridge, Top of the World, Temple Hills and even in Upper Victoria Beach areas to name a few. These homes range in price from $1,250,000 for a 4 bedroom, 2 bath (actually 2 cottages on one lot), on a 4,770 square foot lot on Top of the World Drive. The ocean views from this property are marginal but do exist. A smaller home in Temple Hills with unobstructed whitewater view of Main Beach currently has an asking price of $1,799,000 . The home has 2 bedrooms. 1.5 baths, 2 car garage with 1,392 square feet of living area and many fine upgrades.... and a killer ocean view. These homes range in age from 1929 to 1997 and everything in between. Some of the older and smaller homes with nice ocean views are basically priced for their land value.
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