Noteworthy new listings….
With its dramatic roofline, covered walkway leading to the entrance, flat-roofed garage, and walls of glass in every direction, the 1951 Lutah Maria Riggs house at 650 San Ysidro Road ($17.975 million) is sex on a stick. The catch? It has just one bedroom. Elsewhere on the 2.7-acre lot, in an A+ location above the Upper Village, is a little office and a one-bedroom guest house with far less flair than the main house. A creek runs through the property, which limits where you could build something with more bedrooms, but I suspect this is destined to be an architectural trophy rather than a primary home. And if I hear about plans to tear it down, I’ll be there with a mob wielding pitchforks.
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Montecito one-bedrooms are rare, and yet here’s a second one: 741 Hot Springs Road ($5.7 million), built in 2011 on a shared private lane. It feels solid, if a tad dim thanks to all that greenery. The house sits at the southern edge of the one-acre lot, with the lane right in front of it and a fair amount of open space in back.
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