Feature presentation
Coastal homes from Corona del Mar to Dana Point, every one filmed at golden hour.
Tonight in LagunaSunset 6:01 PMGolden hour from 5:21 PM
Coastline Estates presents
Villa Crescent
31 Crescent Bay Drive, North Laguna5 bd · 6.5 ba · 6,120 sq ft
Offered at$18,950,000
Coastline Estates · Laguna Beach · Est. 1998
Every house has its hour.
Tonight in Laguna
6:01PM
Sunset over the water. Our crew will be on a terrace in Emerald Bay from 5:21, filming a house that goes on the market next week.
On this stretch of coast it is usually the forty minutes before the sun drops behind Catalina. We photograph, film and show every home we list inside that window, then put it in front of the few hundred people who can buy it.
It takes longer than the usual way. It also sells for more.
$2.84Bin homes sold on this coast since 1998
102.6%of asking price, our 2025 average
19median days on the market
212homes sold with the Pacific in the front yard
Now showing
Six homes on the water this season.
Each one filmed at golden hour by our own crew. One of them you won't find on any other site, and we'd be glad to tell you why.
Feature presentation
On the sand
Off market. By introduction only.
A 1.2-acre ridge estate above Crystal Cove. No photographs online, at the owners' request.Nothing on the open market matches that today. We usually know of something that isn't on it.
The feature presentation · No. 01
Villa Crescent
$18,950,000
31 Crescent Bay Drive, North Laguna. Five rooms, filmed on 21 September between 5:52 and 6:56 PM. Scroll to walk through.
Sc. 01 · 5:52 PM
Arrival
Through the gate the house opens straight onto the water. The pool runs ninety-two feet along the colonnade, out to the rocks.
Sc. 02 · 6:14 PM
The great room
Thirty feet of glass slides into the wall. The sun comes in low across the stone and finds the far end of the room.
Sc. 03 · 6:33 PM
The dining terrace
A table for ten under the old cypress. Dinner in this house has been timed to the sunset since 1931.
Sc. 04 · 6:47 PM
The primary suite
Sunset from the bed. A corner of steel windows over the tidepools, and a shell chandelier the sellers will leave behind.
Sc. 05 · 6:56 PM
Last light
The pool goes copper, then silver. On a clear night you can watch the sun set behind Catalina without getting out of the water.
Built in 1931 as a summer house for a Pasadena family who wanted to hear the water from every room.
It has been restored twice, most recently in 2021, when the colonnade was rebuilt in Santa Barbara limestone and the reflecting pool was carried out to the edge of the bluff. Five bedrooms, a library with its own fireplace, a cellar for 1,400 bottles, and a stair cut into the rock that ends in a private cove at low tide.
The house faces almost due west. In late September the sun sets straight down the length of the pool.
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Bathrooms
- 6 full, 1 half
- Interior
- 6,120 sq ft
- Lot
- 0.41 acre
- Ocean frontage
- 140 ft
- Pool
- 92 ft, reflecting
- Built · restored
- 1931 · 2021
- Parking
- 3 cars + motor court
MEListed by Margaux ElleryFounding partner · (555) 014-7721
Locations
Twelve miles of coast, and every cove on it.
We only sell between Corona del Mar and the Dana Point Headlands. It is a short stretch, and we know which streets get the fog and which ones get the sunset.
- 01
Corona del Mar
$6.1Mmedian, 2025
Flower-named streets, the tidepools at Little Corona, and the shortest walk to the sand in Newport.
- 02
Crystal Cove ridge
$11.8Mmedian, 2025
Gated ridge estates above a state-park beach, with some of the largest lots left on this coast.
- 03
Emerald Bay
$13.4Mmedian, 2025
A private beach behind a guard gate and almost no turnover. We sold three of the last seven homes here.
- 04
North Laguna
$7.9Mmedian, 2025
Crescent Bay, Shaw's Cove and Heisler Park. Walk to dinner, walk to the water, never move the car.
- 05
Three Arch Bay
$9.6Mmedian, 2025
A private cove with a sea arch you can swim through at low tide, and neighbors who have been there for forty years.
- 06
Dana Point Headlands
$8.4Mmedian, 2025
Bluff-top homes over the harbor. From December to April the gray whales pass close enough to hear.
Corona del Mar → Dana Point01 · Corona del Mar
Our agents
Four agents, one coastline, no assistants answering the phone.
Starring
Founding partnerEmerald Bay · Crescent Bay · Three Arch Bay
Margaux Ellery
$1.12B closed · 27 years · French and English · (555) 014-7721
PartnerCorona del Mar · Shore Cliffs
Tobias Navarro
$640M closed · trained as an architect · (555) 014-7734
PartnerDana Point Headlands · Monarch Beach
Joy Oduya-Hale
$415M closed · former yacht broker · (555) 014-7748
AgentNorth Laguna · Top of the World
Sora Ishikawa
$186M closed · grew up on Crescent Bay · Japanese and English · (555) 014-7752
- Director of photography
- Iris Varga
- Aerial unit
- Kai Mendes
- Staging & styling
- Rosamund Pell
- Escrow & closing
- Leo Marsh
Sold
The reviews are in.
$412.6Mclosed in 2025, across 37 homes
4neighborhood price records set in the last two years
Record saleEmerald Bay2026
The Harlan family, sellers, Emerald Bay“Three offers before the film had finished its first week. We never held an open house.”
Price per footThree Arch Bay2026
Rocío and Andrés Moreno, sellers, Three Arch Bay“They waited eleven days for the fog to lift before they would film. It was worth every one of them.”
| Address | Neighborhood | Sold for | Of asking | Days | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Sea Lane | Emerald Bay | $24,600,000 | 104.1% | 9 | Mar 2026 |
| 118 Shell Cove Road | Three Arch Bay | $13,180,000 | 101.6% | 21 | Jan 2026 |
| 4 Lantern Bluff | Dana Point Headlands | $11,450,000 | 99.2% | 38 | Nov 2025 |
| 2711 Seaward Lane | Corona del Mar | $8,925,000 | 103.4% | 6 | Sep 2025 |
| 9 Kelp Point | Crystal Cove ridge | $19,750,000 | 102.7% | 17 | Jun 2025 |
| 71 Bluffside Walk | North Laguna | $4,880,000 | 105.8% | 4 | May 2025 |
Valuation & private showings
What is your house worth in its best light?
Tell us where it is. One of the partners will walk it with you, usually within two days, and you'll have a written number by the end of the week. No obligation to list, and no one will call you twice.
- iA walk-throughAn hour at the house, at the time of day it looks its best.
- iiA written valuationSix comparable sales, what we'd ask, and what we expect it to sell for.
- iiiIf you list, the filmOur crew shoots it at golden hour, as many evenings as it takes.