June 2015

Living in the Big Canyon McLain condo community has a lot to offer and is one of the best kept secrets in Newport Beach.  Located on the perimeter of the Big Canyon golf course near the 6th fairway is a community of 61 luxury townhouses that can offer wonderful golf course views.  The location is almost to good to be true considering prices are often found well below the one million dollar price point for a community situated in the heart of the city of Newport Beach near Fashion Island shopping center and the beach.

Big Canyon McClain features two to three bedroom floor plans that offer a combination of golf course and city light views.  The community itself has two separate sections located on the north and south south of Ford Road.  The southern

The Versailles building in Newport Beach, California has a few select condos that can offer wonderful sea views of the Pacific Ocean.  The approximate location is adjacent to the Hoag Hospital and Superior Avenue which leads down to the beach.  This is an older complex with one story units that were built in the early 1970's.  There many individual buildings that are within the Versailles community that are three stories high with condos located on each floor.  There is a nice central courtyard and gated patrol at the entrance of Versailles with a very distinctive Italianate architecture.  

The majority of ocean view condos located in Versailles are located in the 100, 101 and 102 buildings.  These three buildings will face west towards the ocean will

One of the unique things seller's are doing in today's Newport Beach Real Estate market is condo conversions.  The process entails taking a multi-family duplex style property and converting them into individual condos.  By doing this the total property value of the property typically increases as two stand alone condos are normally worth more than one duplex building.  This is not an easy task by any stretch of the imagination but the benefits often make the process very worthwhile and profitable.  The entire Newport Towers building located on the Newport Bay recently went through the condo conversion process as well and turned all of the units into individual condos.

A condo conversion has just been completed at 5306 Seashore Drive in Newport Beach.