Inside Capistrano Beach homes
Elevation is the thing to know about 92624. The Palisades and Capistrano Bluffs sit up top on wide streets with ocean views straight off the back patio; below the slope, the grid around Doheny Village runs flat to the sand and holds the oldest housing in the area. Two blocks apart, and the visits are nothing alike.
The other thing is the age spread. A 1954 two-bedroom cottage with original wall tile can share a fence with a rebuild that has three levels and an elevator. That means our crews here carry both kinds of kit: gentle products and small vacuums for old ceramic, painted cabinetry and single-pane windows, and the equipment a large hard-floored house needs. Near Doheny State Beach the sand and salt apply to all of it equally.
Capistrano Beach homes, structurally
The floor of the range is a 900 to 1,400 square foot post-war cottage, single level, ceramic tile in the bath and hardwood or carpet elsewhere, sometimes with an added room off the back. The top of the range is a bluff rebuild of 3,000 square feet or more on three levels with full-height ocean glass. In between sit 1970s and 1980s two-story houses and a handful of condo and townhome tracts on the slope.