IF you're driving up around Leo Carrillo and venture a little North on PCH to County Line Beach, there's a little Beach Shack style dive called Neptune's Net. They used to feature seafood so fresh it was still alive in tanks out back. Many's the time I made a special drive just to get a plate of their steamed clams and sit on the patio at sunset. I don't know if the place is as good any more as my memories from then. There's a road that winds up the bluffs above Neptune's, and you may have noticed the fervent activity of earth movers and graders there. This is part of the western outpost of Malibu,the Gated community of Marisol. Honestly, this really IS an outpost; I think Malibu officially ends about six hundred yards north of here. While many question the wisdom of building on these oft-shifting bluffs, the technology to stabilize these hillsides known for their kinetic activity has developed to such a point that multi-million dollar homes are being built there.
This from the Los Angeles Times :
A luxury planned community has opened at the western end of Malibu and listed its beachfront showcase home at $17 million.
Called MariSol Malibu, the gated community will contain 17 properties on 80 acres. The 13 oceanfront estate sites have beach frontage ranging from 130 to 210 feet.
The showcase estate, sited on an acre, has 6,800 square feet of living space containing a 60-foot-wide great room with 14-foot ceilings, two bars, a refrigerated wine cellar, a gym, two master bedroom suites, two additional bedrooms and six bathrooms. Outdoors is an additional 3,000 square feet of sheltered courtyard space. There is parking for 10 cars.
Luxist, a blog whose name says it all together with top rate writing and style points, has this to say about Marisol:
Malibu hasn't seen this level of pristine land since May Rindge locked up her gates and tried to block the railroad and county road from coming through her home. The Rindges bought the 13,300 acres of Rancho Malibu for $10 an acre in 1892 and while developer Richard Morris is certainly looking to fetch a little more, you can totally see what the Rindges saw way back when. It's just a breath-taking location, and as they say, nobody is manufacturing any more oceanfront land, are they?
Marisol Malibu features a 10,000-square-foot single-story main home. It has a 60-foot-wide great room with 14-foot tall ceilings, a fully equipped wet bar and two master bedroom suites both with oak ceilings and views of the surfers below. There are two other bedrooms with mountain views. The home has a state-of-the-art home theater, an open chef's kitchen, refrigerated wine cellar, gym and landscaped grounds with an infinity-edge lap pool and three patios. There is an outdoor dining pavilion and an ironwood deck on the 4,000 square foot bluff "beach." The home has a water wall of rock quarried from the site and set in a a fern and oak garden. The driveway is made of hand-hewn cobblestones of native rocks. There is parking for 10 cars. All the electronics are centrally controlled b a Creston smart system and 10 security cameras patrol the property.
Including the showcase property, Marisol has 13 oceanfront one-acre estate sites and three two-acre flat sites for estates to be built elevated above the oceanfront sites. There is also a 57-acre hillside retreat that overlooks the whole project and 10 miles of rugged coastline. The lots range from $4 million to $9 million.
Jack Pritchett of Pritchett-Rapf & Associates of Malibu, and Chris Cortazzo of Coldwell Banker Malibu, share the listing.
Not sure how they can refer to up on the bluffs as "beach frontage" But the way the acoustics work up there, you can hear the waves, which is worth a lot. But 17 Million? Not sure about that.
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If you've got 17 million to spend chances are you've got another 17 to match the first, in which case you might be in the ballpark for this landmark Malibu Estate on the pinnacle peaks off Kanan Road:
Yes, Rocky Oaks reduced the price back in December from 65 million to 49 million. Located in the new "wine corridor" of the Malibu hills The estate has its own award-winning vineyard, a large Tuscan home, plus additional pads for a potential helicopter landing site, guest house, and guard gate. The acreage includes terraced vineyards and orchards of approximately 75 citrus trees and 50 fruit and nut trees. The hillside location also offers panoramic views of the ocean and distant vistas of city lights in all directions. This area is home to at least ten active producing wineries by my count, and this estate ranks among the most baronial in feel and presence. If they turn you down for 34 million, that's just crazy, in my opinion. But call me and I'll provide you with several logical alternatives if you want a similar property in this price range.
