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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Register with proof of funds
And a sentence about what you are looking for. A partner reads every registration.
Receive the particulars
Printed and posted. Private houses, and every public entry eleven days before launch.
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.