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Luxury Properties For Sale Malibu, CA: Exploring Coastal Real Estate Opportunities Malibu runs 21 miles along PCH, and no two of those miles deliver the same version of coastal living. People come to this stretch of the Southern California coast for different reasons. Some want luxury homes on the sand. Some want rental properties while they learn the coastline. Others are finally...
A Detailed Look at Malibu Road for Buyers Malibu Road runs roughly 1.5 miles along the coast between the eastern entrance near Webb Way and the Civic Center, and the western terminus at the back gate of Malibu Colony. It's a single two-lane road. Beachfront homes line the south side, looking out over Puerco Beach. Inland-facing homes sit on...
How the New Malibu School District Could Boost Your Home's Value BEFORE YOU READ: (For quick reading check the "Too Long Didn't Read's" at the beginning of each section) Last Updated: May 2026 On December 8, 2025, the Malibu City Council unanimously ratified the final separation package that will eventually peel Malibu schools off from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. The vote followed...
Humaliwo: What "Malibu" Actually Means The word "Malibu" isn't English. It isn't Spanish. It's an anglicized version of a Chumash word, Humaliwo, sometimes written Humaliwu, that has been spoken on this coastline for longer than most of the world's major cities have existed. And the place it referred to wasn't a region or a stretch...
Malibu's New Power Buyers: Tech Founders, Politicians, and Where They're Quietly Buying Malibu Real Estate On a leafy street in Point Dume, a black SUV idles outside a four-bedroom house that until December belonged to a producer most people had never heard of. The new owner is the former Vice President of the United States. About a mile away, a Google co-founder just dropped roughly...
Jungleland USA: When Thousand Oaks Was a Wild-Animal Capital If you'd stood at the corner of Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Conejo School Road in the summer of 1965, you could have heard a lion roar in broad daylight. The sound wouldn't have been coming from a film reel or a memory. It would have been coming from a cage about...
Malibu Short-Term Rental Rules: Permits, Taxes & Fines Explained BEFORE YOU READ: (For quick reading check the "Too Long Didn't Read's" at the beginning of each section) Two ordinances govern the short-term rental of property in Malibu, and only one of them is currently enforceable. For the better part of a decade, owners of single-family homes, guest houses, and...
Carbon Beach Malibu: Inside Billionaire's Beach Seventy oceanfront lots stretch a mile and a half between the Malibu Pier and Carbon Canyon Road. That's it. That's Carbon Beach in its entirety, and that scarcity is why one sale here can change comps and averages for the rest of Malibu. Carbon Beach is the most expensive piece...
Malibu ADU Guide: Fire Rebuilds, Permits & Investment Strategy BEFORE YOU READ: (For quick reading check the "Too Long Didn't Read's" at the beginning of each section) Two laws have rewired the math on Malibu accessory dwelling units in the last six months, and a third lands on July 1, 2026. For the better part of a decade, an ADU in...
How a 15-Year-Old at Surfrider Beach Made Malibu the Capital of Surf Culture In the summer of 1956, a five-foot tenth grader named Kathy Kohner started showing up at the First Point of Surfrider Beach with a homemade peanut-butter-and-radish sandwich and a borrowed surfboard. She didn't know it yet, but she was about to give Malibu the most enduring piece of cultural mythology it...
Paradise Coves Forgotten Whaling Fleet On a January morning in 1935, if you stood on the bluff above Paradise Cove and looked out, you would have seen a 900-ton steam schooner anchored roughly a mile offshore, flanked by two smaller vessels called the Hawk and the Port Saunders. Their decks were slick with whale blood and...
Point Dume Malibu: A Complete Street by Street Buyer's Guide When someone tells us they want to buy on Point Dume, we always ask the same question: which Point Dume? That may feel like a strange question, most people think Point Dume is one area, but it's not. It's closer to seven distinct areas, stacked on top of each other...