The shape of Corona del Mar
Corona del Mar is not its own city, and residents will tell you that within a minute of also telling you it is nothing like the rest of Newport Beach. It is the 92625 village on the bluff south of the harbor entrance, and the housing there is unusual: most of the Village grid is zoned for two units, so many addresses on Begonia, Carnation and Marguerite are duplexes with a front unit facing the street and a back unit off the alley.
Beyond the Village the scale changes fast. Shore Cliffs, Cameo Shores and Corona Highlands sit on the bluff with big single-lot houses, ocean-facing glass and private stairs to the beach. Irvine Terrace and Harbor View Hills look back over the harbor with 1960s ranch homes that have mostly been rebuilt. Same ZIP code, three very different visits, so we quote from the room count instead of assuming a Corona del Mar house is a cottage.
What Corona del Mar homes are like to clean
Village lots here are narrow, most of them about thirty feet wide, and almost everything on them is vertical. A rebuilt Flower Street home is typically three levels plus a roof deck, 1,800 to 2,800 square feet, with wide-plank wood or stone on every floor and a two-car garage off the rear alley. The bluff tracts are the opposite shape: 3,000 to 5,000 square feet on one or two levels, heavy on ocean-facing glass, with the salt haze a west-facing wall of windows collects.