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La Selva Beach Real Estate
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The La Selva Beach area is about 10 minutes south of Aptos and has a wide variety of housing. La Selva Beach is unincorporated, so is governed by the county. The area due to its proximity though, has a Watsonville zip code of 95076. Located on a coastal terrace overlooking Manresa State Beach, a large number of the homes have ocean views. Some of the most stunning ocean views and most luxurious mansions are located in La Selva Beach.The neighborhood feel of La Selva Beach makes it a nice place to get away, and be undiscovered.La Selva Beach is a great family vacation location. The homes and condominiums here range from the $700,000's to well over $7,000,000 for an ocean view mansion. Homes are usually $700,000-2,000,000. Condos are usually in the $700,000-1.5 million dollar range for the ocean front units.
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La Selva Bearh real estate and history
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La Selva Beach real estate and history
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La Selva Beach real estate and local history
This small coastal beach community used to be in a major fog belt years ago, but times have changed, a bit. While I won't get up on a soap box about global warming, the benefits of less fog has made this town a more desirable place to live in the last decade. So the town is still a sleepy throw back place of the 50's, just not as foggy, the prices are definitely 21st century. The town has a main boulevard with tall trees separated by an island of grass and flowers. There is a small grocery store , the library, a fire department and Grange Hall, church and a few other establishments. Quaint and quiet are apt descriptions of the town and some of the houses, even a pretty little B&B, the Flora Vista Inn. If you decide to live here, join the La Selva Beach Improvement Association and you'll receive a key to the "private beach." LSBIA publishes a monthly newsletter called the Beachcomber that keeps all the residents up to date on local La Selva events such as the Forth of July Parade, Halloween, Christmas and a few other community events.
The La Selva Beach area per our MLS is a good sized area and stretches down to Pajaro Dunes, in Watsonville . The main road to these areas is predominantly San Andreas Road. The area still has a variety of agricultural endeavors, including flower farming, small organic farms as well as strawberries and other crops. There is a KOA campground you would not expect off this beaten path as well. The area has homes that range from small beach cottages to mansions with stunning ocean views, to condos that are on the sand to homes with views of rolling acreage on out to the sea.
Probably one of the early adopters to this area was the California National Guard, which used the area as an artillery training center, under the name Camp McQuaide. The post of almost 400 acres was decommissioned after the war and considered surplus. The State of California government tried to sell the property to Santa Cruz County for a junior college site, and later to the State division of Parks to be the site of a state park. No one was buying at even the nominal price of a dollar. In 1948 the Seventh-day Adventist Church acquired the property at no cost. The War Assets Administration wanted to get rid of the property and it was taken over to become Monterey Bay Academy. Real estate this prime would have been snapped up by any of us; if only we knew.
Monterey Bay Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist, a co-educational boarding high school, located on San Andreas Road, in La Selva Beach, California. Since 1949,
Monterey Bay Academy has built a complete campus and has housing for the students. During its time it has had more than 8,000 students, with 95% of those students going on to colleges. Monterey Bay Academy had, in their acquisition of the site, their own 3/4 of a mile California beach and an airport. Monterey Bay Academy Airport is located on the Campus of Monterey Bay Academy. During his visit to Santa Cruz in 1989, the Dalai Lama landed at this airport.
Truly a great place to have slower pace of life and enjoy the vast variety of terrain and views while contemplating life, walking on the sand.
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