2839 Via Victoria, Palos Verdes Estates: a George Sweeney Spanish villa in Lunada Bay, sold at $3,479,000

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An attributed house sells differently. 2839 Via Victoria is a Spanish villa in Lunada Bay designed by the architect George Sweeney, and it announces itself from the street: a rotunda entry, smooth stucco, clay tile rooflines, and a stone stair through a citrus courtyard with a tiled fountain. Inside are arched doorways, barrel-vaulted halls and beamed ceilings, a living room with a towering fireplace and windows to a slice of ocean on one side and the canyon on the other, and a sunlit rotunda at the center with a curved stair to the bedrooms. The house is 3,840 square feet on a 15,520 square foot lot, built in 1984 and updated throughout. We listed it at $3,499,000 in the summer of 2025 and closed at $3,479,000 on September 29, 48 days later, at $906 per square foot, 99.4 percent of the asking price.

What was the house?

A villa organized around its rotunda. The formal living room, under the tallest ceiling in the house, is framed by walls of windows: a peek of the ocean to the west, the canyon to the east. The dining room has coffered ceilings, a rustic chandelier and French doors to the yard, aligned on axis with the arched front entry. The kitchen was rebuilt with custom cabinetry, a marble-topped island with seating, Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances, an appliance garage and a large pantry, and it looks onto the garden; double arches lead to a family room with French doors to a flat, usable yard with a built-in barbecue and a patio above the canyon. Upstairs, the primary suite has vaulted beamed ceilings, windows on both sides for the ocean breeze and the canyon view, a bath with a soaking tub, walk-in shower and dual vanities, and a walk-through closet. Three more bedrooms, one used as an office, share a remodeled dual-vanity bath.

The attribution is the point. A house that can be described by its designer is marketed to a different audience than a house described by its square footage.

What was the goal?

To sell a large architectural house on a canyon lot in Lunada Bay at a price close to the water-side comparables without a full ocean view. The stakes were that Lunada Bay’s prices are set by the bluff, and a house east of Palos Verdes Drive West, however fine, is measured against them. The strategy was to market the architecture and the site as the value: the Sweeney attribution, the courtyard, the rotunda, the flat yard and the canyon frontage, which is open space that will not be built, and to price at $3,499,000 so that the number read as a considered one rather than a reach. The marketing led with the architect’s name in the first line.

The sale closed at $3,479,000, $20,000 under the ask, on September 29, 2025. Holding 99.4 percent of a $3.5 million list price through a 48 day marketing period on a non-ocean lot is the result the architecture earned.

What does the sale say about Lunada Bay?

That the neighborhood pays for architecture and for land, not only for the bluff. A 15,520 square foot lot with a canyon behind it and a house by a named architect brought a price within a few percent of the ocean-view houses of similar size, which is a useful reference for owners east of the drive. For the neighborhood, see Lunada Bay and Palos Verdes Estates; for the buyer’s side, the Homes Association and Art Jury rules that govern any change to a house like this are in our Art Jury guide.

Update: sold

If your house was designed by a named architect, the attribution belongs in the listing and in the price. Send Neil the address and we will tell you what the name is worth in Lunada Bay. The Sellers page describes how we market architecture.

Sources

• California Regional MLS listing record, SB25152254; closing figures as reported to the MLS
• Lunada Bay; Homes by Type

Written July 2025; updated September 29, 2025. Property facts, list price and days on market are from the California Regional MLS listing record (SB25152254); the sale price and closing date are public record. Represented by Neil Chhabria, Chhabria Real Estate Company. This article is general real estate information about one sale, not tax, legal, lending or investment advice, and not a statement about the value of any other property.

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