Redondo Beach homes, up close
Redondo Beach is really two cities sharing one name. South of Torrance Boulevard, the Avenues and the blocks around Riviera Village run to older beach bungalows, Spanish-tile duplexes and small condo buildings a few streets off the sand. A lot of the homes we clean down there belong to couples and long-time owners who want the same crew every other week and a key left in the lockbox.
North Redondo is a different job entirely. Golden Hills and the Villas tracts were redeveloped through the 1980s and 1990s into two- and three-on-a-lot townhomes: narrow footprints, three levels, garage at the bottom and the kitchen stranded in the middle. Then the land rises into the Hollywood Riviera, where the houses get large and the ocean view comes with a lot of ocean-facing glass. We quote all three from your actual room count rather than a flat Redondo rate.
Inside a typical Redondo Beach home
Redondo covers more kinds of housing than either beach city to the north. Only about four in ten units here are detached houses, so stairs, shared walls and tight hard-floor kitchens come up more often than open carpet. South Redondo skews older and smaller, with prewar and postwar bungalows on the Avenues and condo buildings along the Esplanade. North Redondo skews newer and taller: three-level townhomes with tile entries, carpeted top floors and a garage doing double duty as storage.