The lower yellowed area is Marblehead “Coastal.”

MarbleHead Coastal Real Estate

Is Coming Soon – Luxury Homes

Real Estate, the luxury kind, is alive and booming in San Clemente with the development of the Marblehead Coastal property.  This nearly 300-acre parcel surveys the ocean from its gently sloping plateau between Avenida Pico and

Homes here will include those built on 69 custom lots of a size from 5,573 to 12,263 square feet.  Buyers can build homes up to 9,000 square feet on a single lot, or to 13,000 square feet on up to two merged lots.  But get this:  LOT prices starft at $1.65 million and go up to more than $5 million!  EEEEEKKKK.

The well-heeled are already at work buying up the lots…you have famous athletes, dot com jillionaires, top investors, celebrities, media stars, etc. involved in, what is for them, just another minor investment as part of their portfolio.

Now there are condos for far lesser purchase prices that will be built, plus there will be outlet stores, a hotel, shops, rec center and more in the Marblehead Coastal development.

See how all this fits in with other San Clemente real estate and Orange County Homes by going to my Orange County real estate website.

30-year Veteran Realtor/Broker Debbie Ferrari

Needy Non-profit Groups Can Now

Earn 10% of Realty Agent Commissions

In a move designed to assist non-profit* groups in San Clemente and South Orange County, CA 30-year Realtor/Broker Debbie Ferrari is donating 10% of her commissions to participating non-profits through RealtyCares, a new, national organization. (*Groups defined under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.)

Buy or sell your local home after registering

it with RealtyCares.org and get 10% of this

local realty agent’s commission donated to

your group* in your name!

RealtyCares at www.RealtyCares.org is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to working with a city or area’s most successful realty agents who want to make a difference…both for their clients and participating area charities.

Non-profit groups benefit because for each referral that a member makes to RealtyCares that results in a sale or purchase of a home, participating realty agents donate 10% of their commission to that member’s choice of charity.

The non-profit group members enjoy being served by professionals who believe that “giving something back” is the right thing to do and who, because of high home prices in many areas, can significantly increase donations to a non-profit group.

For realty agents, it means a chance to perform home (or land, commercial property, etc.) buying or selling services for motivated, cause-minded members of local non-profit groups who are committed to strong community service as a way of life.

RealtyCares is at (800) 952-2735 | www.RealtyCares.org . 

Or visit her huge Orange County real estate web site.  Her website is at www.DebbieFerrari.com .  Ferrari is listed as one of real estate mogul Donald Trump’s top 100 advisors in the United States in his newest book.

San Clemente’s Fred Swegles, a reporter with the
San Clemente Sun Post newspaper,  is seemingly at every
event, every political activity, every city council meeting

….and is a terrific writer.

The Casa Romantica (www.CasaRomantica.org) says:

In conjunction with the The Life and Times Exhibition, Casa Romantica invites you to spend an evening with Fred Swegles of the Sun Post News. Learn how this San Clemente chronicler reports on his town and take a nostalgic photographic trip back in time as Fred shares his favorite San Clemente memories.

Debbie and I are definately going to his Monday, August 20 special presentation of San Clemente through the eyes of his camera and through his own recollections, back to the Western White House days of President Richard Nixon who lived here
on the coast in San Clemente.

Monday, August 20th at 7pm

All ages welcome!

Adults $3

Members and children under 12-Free

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Addendum

The event on the 20th was a tremendous success.  The Casa Romantica was packed.  Fred did a magnificent job and included some pretty funny anecdotes as he showed tons of slides and discussed them.  He even had photos of three past U.S. presidents.

See more about San Clemente activities and San Clemente real estate on my big web site.  See my banner at the bottom of the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce home page.

Click on Photo of Golfer Bill Koelzer to enlarge

Some Prime San Clemente Real Estate

of Pacific Golf Club

Is Being Contested: Golf Course or Homes?

Should developer Michael Rosenfeld be allowed to avert a bankruptcy for the Pacific Golf Club? He might get that permission if the City of San Clemente approves his most recent San Clemente real estate use plan to put only 238 homes on 9 holes of the 27-hole Pacific Golf Club course way up Pico Blvd and just to the south of it.

The Pacific Golf Club lies on 248 acres of real estate at 200 Avenida La Pata.

The controversy: The real estate that Pacific Golf Club was built one was originally designated by the city as open space. But now, Rosenfeld wants to change some of that open space (9 acres) into homes, modernize the remaining 18 acres, remodel the club facilities and enhance the Pacific Golf Club profitability and use by making the new home owners social members of Pacific Golf Club.

Opponents say it is the city of San Clemente selling out the open space that it promised its residents; proponents say it is a recreational addition to the community.

Two attractive elements of Rosenfeld’s latest offer is 1. Earmarking 62 units for senior housing, betting that older people will drive less, thus not adding so much to the traffic on Pico, and 2. An $11 million grant to the city to help develop 45 acres of sports park on Vista Hermosa, plus a half a million dollars towards the new Dorothy Visser Senior Center. $150,000 to improve San Clemente’s classic Casa Romantica Cultural Center, $200,000 for a water reclamation system and $100,000 for a land trail head at Ave. La Pata.

The above is what was going on as of Thursday, May 21, 2007….watch for further reports here in the near future…..

For more information about Pacific Golf Club and what YOU can learn or do, visit the San Clemente Pacific Golf Club data site for interested citizens.

My job usually consists of finding out of town home buyers some real estate to buy in South Orange County, CA. Doing this is one of my greatest joys. Especially if the buyers are from out of this area, and have never seen San Clemente, Dana Point or the surrounding area before.

San Clemente is blessed with its incredibly beautiful beaches, our stunning wooden pier that runs nearly a quarter mile into the ocean, our ocean view bluffs, and our quaint, old-fashioned down town shopping area.

Look above at all the ocean view homes!

The pier is a joy to photograph and to walk on. Many people fish off the pier. Just out in the ocean a ways south, is the new kelp bed that will bring even better fishing to our shores. But the pier itself is a joy to behold.

On the land side of the pier, standing high on a piling-supported platform, is The Fisherman’s Restaurant, a terrific place for local food of all kinds, plus a place to drink or dine right over the surf below. Go HERE to see many pictures of the restaurant’s interior and exterior.

Bill and I like to check with weather.com to see what time the sun sets in San Clemente, then we go down to the pier and get an outdoor table facing west so we can have a drink and a shrimp cocktail as we watch the sun slip into the ocean.

There are several hamburger-type small outdoor restaurants on the beach just before you go onto the pier, and since these, too, are operated by the Fisherman’s Restaurant, you can bet that the burgers, dogs, fries and shakes, even salads, that you get there are of top quality, too.

Generally, I just TELL the out of town real estate and home buyers about the restaurant and pier, but sometimes we park in the pier bowl and go onto the pier to discuss an offer or lay out the next day’s homes to view since I can get the Internet anywhere I go because of a special AT&T/Cingular web software I have on my laptop computer.

They are always just stunned with the beautiful views from the pier bowl, of our wide beach and the pier structure itself. Oh yes, the surfers are always there and to landlocked people from the prairie states, seeing them balance on a wave-driven board is always fascinating.

Do I love helping buyers find real estate in San Clemente, California? You bet I do. I love to share their joy in finding the home of their dreams, whether it be a little condo or a huge luxury home. My life as a San Clemente and South Orange County Realtor is a blast. Deb.

Last week, San Clemente city council approved local Mortgage Broker Scott Melcher’s conceptual plan for a 36-hole miniature golf course on Ave. Vista Hermosa near Ave La Pata and behind the Fire Station there.

Because I am a marketing consultant, and friend of Scott’s, he showed me his plan about six months ago.  I studied it and told Scott that it was a brilliantly conceived plan and that it would be hard to find anyone that might oppose it.  Especially the many COOPERATIVE ways he has designed the facility and its revenues to fit into the city and not only be a great new entertainment center for the populace, but provide income for the city and various non-profit organizations from time to time.

It is a testiment to Scott’s reputation in the community for integrity and entrepreneurship that the council voted to work exclusively with Scott Melcher, rather than open the project up to a series of competitive bids.   Way to go, Scott!

In the San Clemente, CA area, you just cannot find a better selection of wine or spirits than you can here:

Bob’s Fine Wines
470 Camino De Estrella, San Clemente, 92672 -

(949) 496-3313

Not only is the place stacked floor to ceiling (well, almost) with the region’s most carefully selected wines from the esoteric and rare, to wines from lesser aging and culture.

Rob, the owner, is the guy who does the first big wine booth each year as you head for the pool area at the big “Taste of San Clemente” event at the Tennis Club just off Calle del Cerro.  Likely, you cannot stump him about wines and he is there most days.

At night, another great Oenophile, Nolan, takes over, and he, too, knows his rare and common wines.  They are also some of the nicest guys you will ever know and are always in a good mood.

The store also has a wide choice of spirits, candy, soft drinks—even exotic kinds of root beer and ginger ale (I LOVE ginger ale, so does my husband, Bill Koelzer)

So, next time you are having the boss over for dinner, or hosting a party or a real estate open house for Realtors somewhere in Orange County, drop by Bob’s Fine Wines first and tell Rob or Nolan that you read about it here.