There are currently 19 oceanfront properties for sale in Santa Barbara in the area from Goleta to Carpinteria. The prices range from $1,399,900 for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath second floor condominium in Carpinteria to $29,950,000. There are 2 oceanfront estates for sale at $29,950,000. The first is an estate on Padaro Lane. This estate features 1.7 acres with sprawling lawns extending to the sandy beach, a beautiful 4 bedroom contemporary home with a separate 2 bedroom guest house, and a pool for when one tires of swimming in the ocean. The other is also a beachfront contemporary.           

 It is on Fernald Point in Montecito. It features a stunning 5 bdrm house with an oceanfront pool, decks, and lawn on just over 1/2 acre. There are 7 properties for sale priced above $20,000,000, 1 in Hope Ranch priced at $19,500,000 – this is an incredible 13,500 s.f. Italian Villa set on a bluff top overlooking the ocean & islands with a pool & horse facilities, 1 at $11,900,000 (a fantastic new home reminiscent of old Cape Cod which could be purchased fully furnished), 1 at $8,900,000, 5  oceanfront homes in the $5,000,000 to $8,500,000 price range and 2 exquisite condominiums in a gated Montecito Oceanfront complex. Santa Barbara’s oceanfront real estate market remains extremely limited in its number of available properties for sale and highly sought after. It continues to be a rare and desirable investment.Santa Barbara’s main waterfront is a long stretch of coastline that is mostly commercial including Leadbetter Beach adjacent to the marina,  West Beach to Stearns Wharf with its dolphin fountain sculptured by local artist Bud Bottoms, onto Chase Palm Park with its charming carousel, and to East Beach known for its volley ball courts & tournaments. Extending further into Santa Barbara is Shoreline Park with fantastic views of the city, harbor, ocean, islands & mountains and into Montecito is Butterfly Beach across from the world renown Biltmore Hotel – a perfect place to enjoy the sunset. There are restaurants, shops, a path for biking, rollerblading, jogging, or enjoying a leisurely stroll, a Sunday art show, museums, and of course the ocean with all its fun activities! Santa Barbara’s waterfront is bordered by palm trees with the sparkling blue Pacific in one direction and the glorious mountains in the other. It is one of the most beautiful coastlines to be found! Santa Barbara’s Oceanfront remains a favored destination for people worldwide!

Below is a list of 19 Hope Ranch properties for sale currently available. All are witnin Hope Ranch and have the associated amenities, such as Hope Ranch private beach, horse trails, country club etc.

Most of the amenities provided only to Hope Ranch inhabitants, began the 1930’s. They included cabanas at the exclusive Hope Ranch beach club on the coast of Hope Ranch, polo fields, archery and a skeet-shooting, tennis courts along with a beautiful 30 mile of bridle trail. There was also, a lavish clubhouse built on “La Cumbre,” or the high point of a hill just east of the Laguna Blanca lake within Hope Ranch, giving rise to the name Le Cumbre Golf and Country Club, the championship 18-hole course and facility. Privately offered, the club is still the hub of Hope Ranch society life today.  

With residents conscientiously guarding their independence, Hope Ranch continues as a place of hidden estates, lifestyles, beach festivities, and a horse lovers paradise. As such, Hope Ranch real estate remains a coveted prize with continued value apprciation.

Click this link or the list below for a detail page of all 19 Hope Ranch properties for sale. Updated daily.

Santa Barbara properties, privately offered Santa Barbara estates, Santa Barbara ocean front for sale, Montecito estates, Hope Ranch estates and the signature property Santa Barbara properties market, is one which requires well informed local expertise and knowledge, crucial to successful acquisition and sale of these rare estates. Custom searches of Santa Barbara properties on the beach, Santa Barbara estates, Montecito properties for sale, Hope Ranch real estate, Carpinteria beach estates information and anaylsis of Santa Barbara CA homes for sale, is available at this site and http://www.RareEstates.com, a fine home sale transaction network, with specialized resources and knowledge of unadvertised Santa Barbara properties and qualified Santa Barbara estates property investors. For exclusive comprehensive analysis and information about Santa Barbara ocean front for sale, privately offered Montecito estates, Santa Barbara estates, or the Hope Ranch properties, inquire here.

While the Santa Barbara real estate market has been one of the least effected in the US market, this Barron’s report shows the bottom may very well be in and short lived on a national basis.

Barrons: 

• Recent data suggest real estate market pessimism may be overblown. Even economist Karl Case, father of the S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Index, admits many industry pundits and members of the media are ignoring key facts – as demonstrated by their focus on negative year-over-year price figures rather than more recent monthly data. An example: Home prices actually increased slightly in eight of 20 Case Shiller markets between March and April. Instead, the focus of most media reports was on year-over-year figures, which continue to support the notion that the market may not have hit bottom, let alone begun to improve.

 • Transaction-related indices may be skewed at present by a far larger than normal share of subprime-derived default and distress sales. In the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, more expensive homes (those priced over $721,548) have dropped in price by only about 10.7 percent from their peak, compared with homes priced under $473,711, which have tumbled by 40.9 percent.

• Even new housing construction numbers suggest an improvement, according to Case. He notes that housing starts, which fell to 975,000 in April from 2.27 million in January 2006, have fallen by similar percentages three times during the last 35 years. Case observes that each previous time this has occurred the market has staged a surprising upturn within a quarter. Only a slide into a recession would temper his optimism about the potential for a similar recurrence of this trend.

The customized Santa Barbara properties search in the left column on this page offer one click searches of virtually all Santa Barbara real estate for sale, pre-sorted by category updated daily. This is the most comprehensive, single source of Santa Barbara properties for sale on the internet, including Montecito properties, Santa Barbara properties, Hope Ranch real estate for sale, Summerland and Carpinteria properties, Goleta real estate, and Santa Ynez properties, all further sorted by property type and features such as Santa Barbara ocean front for sale, Santa Barbara view properties for sale, Montecito estates, and Santa Barbara Mesa properties. Simply click your preferred search and your there. You can then modify your Santa Barbara property search, save favorite Santa Barbara properties, and set up to automatically receive emails of properties that fit your search parameters the moment they come into the system. So you are the first to be alerted when a property of interest is for sale.

Santa Barbara properties, privately offered Santa Barbara estates, Santa Barbara water front for sale, Montecito estates, and the signature property Santa Barbara properties market is one which requires well informed local experticse and knowledge, crucial to successful acquisition and sale of rare estates. Custom searches of Santa Barbara properties on the beach, Santa Barbara estates, Montecito properties for sale, Hope Ranch real estate, Carpinteria beach estates information and anaylsis of Santa Barbara CA homes for sale, is available at this site and http://www.RareEstates.com, a fine home sale transaction network, with specialized resources and knowledge of unadvertised Santa Barbara properties and qualified Santa Barbara estates property investors. For exclusive comprehensive analysis and information about Santa Barbara ocean front for sale, privately offered Montecito estates, Santa Barbara estates, or the Hope Ranch properties, inquire here.

Santa Barbara properties for sale and Montecito properties for sale for 2008 year to date appear below. The statistical totals are for Santa Barbara and Montecito YTD, just under 6 months for 2008, over the same period in 2007, for single family homes from $1.5 million. The Median price columns included are global stats for the area so do not filter out lower priced homes which were the softest market segment here as well as nationally. Even with that, the Median is off a negligible -2 percent for the year in the city of SB, and up an amazing 27% for the Montecito real estate market. While Montecito properties for sale offer less home for the money, the Montecito properties sement most definitely has a stabilizing and buoying effect on all of Santa Barbara homes for sale in the upper end market.

The "West of State" Street segment, includes all properties sold West of State Street, including half of downtown, the West side, the Mesa, Braemar, Hidden Valley, and areas immediateyl surrounding those.

East of State Street is the other half of Santa Barbara including the Riviera, but also the East Side, which is the geographic area of Santa Barbara properties for sale  that has seen the most softening. Average price is down -8% YTD East of State.

We think what is most intriguing is that average and median prices are generally doing quite well on a somewhat lower overall sales volume. That lower sales volume indicates to us that there is not any panic selling here. It also suggests that when sales volumes increase again, the effect on median and average home prices should be stimulating. One effect on sales volume this year was the Sub-Prime mortgage market scare. 1st quarter sale totals were effected everywhere as a result. With the bulk of that now behind us, volume is steadily increasing.

Statistics provided by Santa Barbara MLS

In summary we see the Santa Barbara real estate market stabilized from a minimal softening and showing improving appreciation moving forward. Our anecdotal evidence is our experience thus far this year over last, regarding sales and listings. in the past 2 months we have been involved in multiple offer situations for a $2 million home and a $2.2 million home. Additionally, 2 lower end condos we have in the $600,000 range, (yes that is lower end in Santa Barbara) which saw almost no activity in the fall, have both received highly increased activity of late, and both have had solid offers submitted on them. It just "feels" to us that we are through the low point of this market, with increased buyer activity, Those buyers definitely want value, and when they find it, they are acting on it, as oppposed to the fence sitting we saw last fall.

Santa Barbara properties, privately offered Santa Barbara estates, Santa Barbara water front for sale, Montecito estates, and the signature property Santa Barbara properties market is one which requires well informed local experticse and knowledge, crucial to successful acquisition and sale of rare estates. Custom searches of Santa Barbara properties on the beach, Santa Barbara estates, Montecito properties for sale, Hope Ranch real estate, Carpinteria beach estates information and anaylsis of Santa Barbara CA homes for sale, is available at this site and http://www.RareEstates.com, a fine home sale transaction network, with specialized resources and knowledge of unadvertised Santa Barbara properties and qualified Santa Barbara estates property investors. For exclusive comprehensive analysis and information with seasoned expert advise about Santa Barbara ocean front for sale, privately offered Montecito estates, Santa Barbara estates, or the Hope Ranch properties, inquire here.

Here is a list of Santa Barbara properties for sale that are in need of TLC within the Santa Barbara market place that are atractively priced to get a foothold in Santa Barbara real estate ownership and offer excellent upside at this temporary market "bottom" . All are available for under $600,000. You can view a property detail page or just use the linked graphic below.

TheSanta Barbara fixer properties market as well as Santa Barbara properties, Montecito estates, Santa Barbara estates property market is one which requires well informed local knowledge that is crucial to successful acquisition and sale of these unique properties. Custom searches of Santa Barbara properties on the beach, Santa Barbara estates, Montecito properties for sale, Montecito estates, Hope Ranch real estate, Carpinteria beach estates information and anaylsis of Santa Barbara CA homes for sale, is available at http://www.RareEstates.com, an expert home sale transaction network. We have specialized knowledge, a wealth of experience and excellent local resources and knowledge of unadvertised properties. To be access our comprehensive information about Santa Barbara ocean front for sale, and privately offered Montecito estates in the Montecito, Santa Barbara estates or the Hope Ranch properties marketplace, direct your inquiries here.