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Orange County

Dana Point

The harbor town that still feels like a secret.

Dana Point is where the coast slows down. A working harbor, a headland that catches the last light, and neighborhoods that have never lost their footing.

Dana Point has a rhythm the rest of South County does not. The harbor anchors everything. You feel it in the morning when the fog burns off the Lantern District and again at sunset when the cliffs at the headland turn gold. It is a stretch of coast our founder grew up loving, and that affection still shapes how we work here.

The housing here runs a wide range. There are bluff-top estates with whitewater views, walkable cottages in the Lantern Village, and gated communities like Monarch Beach where the golf and the resort set the tone. Buyers come for the water. They stay for the feeling that they found something the rest of the coast overlooked.

If you are selling here, the story is the lifestyle. Harbor mornings, Salt Creek in the afternoon, dinner walkable from the front door. Our job is to make that feeling impossible to ignore. Drone footage of the coastline. Honest pricing built on real comps. A process that respects your time.

Thinking about Dana Point?

Let us talk through what is on the market and what is coming.