Manhattan Beach : The Sand Section

What your Sand Section home is actually worth

Walk streets, small lots, and a buyer pool that argues about eight feet of frontage like it is a constitutional matter. Automated estimates are hopeless here. They average a walk street against a busy corner and hand you a number with a straight face.

  • Coastal specialist
  • Discreet, off market where it matters
  • No listing pressure

A number prepared by a person

  • Walk street premium versus interior lots, priced honestly.
  • What a remodel returns here, and the point where it stops returning anything.
  • Net proceeds after commission, transfer tax, and the repairs a buyer will find anyway.

No drip campaign, no automated valuation report with a stock photo of a porch. One reply, from me.

01 The house02 Where to send it

Run your net proceeds first

Sale price is a headline. This is the part that lands in your account.

Estimated net to you

$1,255,960

Sale price
$2,400,000
Commission
-$120,000
Closing costs
-$28,800
Prep and credits
-$25,000
Mortgage payoff
-$900,000
Estimated capital gains tax
-$70,240
Net proceeds
$1,255,960

A planning estimate, not tax advice. Exclusions assume you meet the ownership and use tests. Depreciation recapture, 1031 treatment and state surtaxes change the picture, and those are worth a conversation before you list.