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Neighborhood Spotlight: Hope Ranch's Beach Access, Trails, and Top Schools Make it a Top Place to Buy Real Estate

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Neighborhood Spotlight: Hope Ranch's Beach Access, Trails, and Top Schools Make it a Top Place to Buy Real Estate

HOPE RANCH IS A PLACE LIKE NO OTHER IN THE SANTA BARBARA AREA. AS YOU PASS UNDER THE FILIGREED SIGN SUSPENDED ACROSS LAS PALMAS DRIVE, YOU FEEL AS IF YOU’RE ENTERING A WORLD ALL YOUR OWN. TOWERING PALMS LINE THE MAIN DRIVE, AND A FEELING OF SERENITY IS EVER PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. IT IS SITUATED IN THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE SANTA BARBARA AREA BETWEEN HIGHWAY 101 AND THE OCEAN, AND ENCOMPASSES 1,863 ACRES. THE BROAD, FLAT MESA AND LOW ROLLING KNOLLS ARE PUNCTUATED BY A MAGNIFICENT VALLEY OF LIVE OAKS, WHICH MAKES IT AN IDEAL LOCATION FOR EQUESTRIAN-MINDED RESIDENTS.

 

Enchanting French Country Estate, Hope Ranch   |   offered at $14,900,000   |   click photo to learn more

 
 

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Private Beach Access

As a Hope Ranch member, you have private access to Hope Ranch Beach. This is a huge perk of living in the Hope Ranch community, and a main reason why people purchase homes in this neighborhood. There are lifeguards at the beach during the summer season, ensuring everyone experiences a fun and safe beach day while participating in a handful of activities. Hope Ranch beach offers picnic grounds, a play structure, a snack bar, kayak storage, storage lockers, bathrooms, and outdoor showers. The Hope Ranch Association also holds an annual summer beach party for residents where you spend the day barbecuing, surfing, kayaking, playing beach volleyball, building sandcastles in the sand, and at the end of the evening you have the option to set up a tent and camp overnight with the rest of the Hope Ranch community.

 

Trails

With miles of equestrian trails that span throughout the entire Hope Ranch community, horse enthusiasts can take their equestrian friends out on a trail ride and even ride along the beach at sunset.

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Schools

The highly acclaimed Laguna Blanca upper school is centrally located on 35-acres in Hope Ranch. "The Laguna experience shapes students in every possible way. While academics are at the core, it is just the beginning. Students are not only thinkers and scholars, but they are also artists, athletes, community volunteers, club members, leaders, and most importantly friends." 

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Privacy

Lined with oak trees, and tucked away in the rolling coastal hills, Hope Ranch is one of the most exclusive communities on the Central Coast. There is exclusive Hope Ranch patrol guarding the roads and keeping them safe, as well as a monthly newsletter with all recent activity that occurred in the community. Those lucky enough to live in Hope Ranch will tell you they wouldn't live anywhere else!

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Celebrity Homes You Can Own!

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Celebrity Homes You Can Own!

Ever dream of living in luxury like your favorite celebrity? Here's your chance to get a special peek inside the most intimate spaces of the rich and famous. Should you have a pretty penny to spare, one of these could be yours:

 
 

1) Best-selling author of "The Secret", Rhonda Byrne, has her Montecito home on the market for $18,800,000.  Known as "Prima Luce," meaning "first light," the sprawling Mediterranean villa features 5 bedrooms, 6 baths, 5 fireplaces, imported French stone and a backyard that will make you feel like you're on vacation year-round. 

 
 

2)  Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have put their recently renovated Bel Air "starter home" on the market. Some of its finest features include a refrigerator covered in Swarovski crystals, four gold-plated toilets, two spas and a 1,050 square-foot entertainment pavilion.  The mini-mans, which they never actually moved into, has an asking price of just over $20 million.  

 
 

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3) Selena Gomez is selling her Calabasas pad for a cool $4,495,000. That price tag gets you 5 bedrooms,  6 bathrooms, a large gym and over 3 acres to play on.  The home also features an outdoor brick pizza oven - perfect for late night dining with friends. 

 
 

4.) For a mere $75 million, Demi Moore's penthouse on Central Park West can be yours! Atop the famed San Remo building, home to many a-celebrity, the 5 bedroom, 7.5 bath triplex also includes a 2 bedroom apartment, for guests.  Sweeping views can be enjoyed from the 1,500 square foot terrace surrounding the apartment.

 
 

5) Oprah's long time right-hand man, business partner and attorney, Jeff Jacobs, has listed his Montecito estate for $11,900,000. A stone's throw from the Kennedys' infamous honeymoon retreat, the San Ysidro Ranch, the Nantucket-inspired property is situated on over 2 acres, offering tons of entertaining space, an upstairs staff apartment, a pool cabana and one of the most magnificent walk-in closets we've ever laid eyes on!

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The Negative Impact of Celebrity on Real Estate

A Santa Barbara Ocean view estate.
A Santa Barbara Ocean view estate.

Modern media revolves around celebrity and the personal lives of high-profile individuals, and is no different for the buying and selling of residential real estate. The media loves to know when a public figure is listing their property or in negotiations for purchasing a new abode. And as is usual in the world of celebrities, the more the media wants to know, the less they are willing to share. Celebrities go to great lengths in order to protect the privacy of their personal lives and their homes as possible, and as an article by MainStreet.com argues, often to the detriment of future resale values. The article discusses several elements that celebrities find attractive in their homes, but can be too personal for future buyers to identify with.

While exposing the name of a famous owner can get a listing extended exposure, a dream come true from a marketing standpoint, a well-known listing can also be seen as a negative by some high-end buyers. A buyer may not want to purchase a home which has gotten a lot of press due to a well-known seller being attached to the property. This also goes for high-rise apartment complexes and gated communities. Having a high-profile neighbor attracting paparazzi attention may be a negative attribute of a home or apartment driving buyers away.

Customization of a home, while usually a huge selling point, can often be overdone by celebrities making the home too personal to them, making it difficult for buyers to see themselves living in a home. While a star athlete may want an indoor sport court with their jersey number splashed across the court, or a young movie star may love the idea of a private bowling alley in their own home, a buyer may find these amenities disarming and be off-put by the home as a result.

While celebrity and fame do have positive attributes for real estate from a marketing standpoint, often the attention this garners can be viewed as negative to buyers.

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