Neighborhoods
In the 1950s the Irvine Company opened its coastline — terraced view tracts where mid-century single-levels still hold their ground against the teardowns.
The story
Postwar Corona del Mar grew in named chapters. Shore Cliffs came first, in 1951 — about 146 home sites on four streets, with two private gated beaches below.
Irvine Terrace followed in the 1950s: roughly 390 homes on streets terraced deliberately so the view survives, one of the clearest pieces of CdM's postwar architectural layer. Then, from 1959, the Cameo communities — Cameo Shores and Cameo Highlands — rolled out across the southern headlands, built out in the early sixties, mostly modern and ranch, mostly single-level.
Seventy years later the teardown pressure is real. That's exactly what makes an original worth recognizing.
The enclaves
The early one — four streets, ~146 sites, private beach access. Small, coveted, rarely available.
~390 view homes on terraced streets above the harbor. Preserved single-level mid-centuries still trade here.
The headlands showpiece — oceanfront and ocean-view customs, launched on the Irvine Company's first bare-ground leases.
The inland-of-PCH sibling with beach keys of its own — the majority built single-level, and the value play of the four.
Across the bay
The same era built Westcliff and Dover Shores on the other side of the bay — ranch and low-slung contemporary streets from the fifties and sixties, anchored by Richard Neutra's beautifully restored Mariners Medical Arts on Westcliff Drive.
On the market now
Straight from the MLS, drawn against the actual Corona del Mar Modern boundary — not a citywide radius. Every card links to the full listing.
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Contact
Original single-levels here are decision-speed listings — and knowing the land-lease history is half the game. Stacey knows both.
