5 Via La Cima, Rancho Palos Verdes: a Spanish townhome in a ten-home gated enclave, sold in eight days

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Ten homes behind a gate, a pool and a clubhouse, and one unit with the view position the other nine look at. 5 Via La Cima is a 2,414 square foot Spanish-style townhome built in 1982 in a small gated community off a cul-de-sac near Peninsula Center, with vaulted, beamed ceilings, vintage Spanish tile, a sculptural fireplace and a back deck that takes in the coast from Malibu to Long Beach, the Queen’s Necklace, the Hollywood sign and the downtown skyline. We listed it at $1,599,000 at the end of 2025 and had it in contract in eight days; it closed at $1,547,673 on February 4, 2026, at $641 per square foot. In a community this small a sale is rare, and it sets the reference price for the next one.

What was the house?

A townhome that lives like a house. The main level is the entertaining floor, under vaulted ceilings with exposed beams, with French doors to the view deck and a kitchen that kept its original Spanish character alongside a flexible room that serves as a den, breakfast room or family space. A lofted office and library sits a few steps above the main level, with built-in shelving and a covered private deck, out of the way of the living space without giving up the view. The bedrooms are grouped on the lower level with the laundry. The primary suite is the unusual part: a dual configuration with two water closets, two vanities and two wardrobe areas joined by a central tub and shower, plus a fireplace, a patio, and an attached sitting room that works as a third bedroom, a fitness room or an office. The house had a whole-house vacuum, a wet bar, storage throughout, and a two car garage with cabinetry, overhead storage, an outlet for EV charging and room for a workbench. The community pool, clubhouse with a full kitchen and guest parking are shared by the ten homes; dues were $745 per month.

What was the goal?

Speed with a full price, in a community where no recent sale existed to lean on. The stakes for a seller in a ten-home enclave are that the comparable set is thin, appraisers reach for other communities, and a listing that lingers gets measured against townhomes that are nothing like it. The strategy was to price at $1,599,000, a number supported by the view position and the Spanish architecture against the larger Peninsula townhome market, to open with the disclosure package and the association documents complete, and to open showings all at once rather than by appointment over weeks. The house was in contract on day eight.

It closed at $1,547,673 on February 4, 2026, 3.2 percent under the list price, a figure that reflects the negotiated resolution of inspection items rather than a market that would not pay. For a sale that took eight days to contract in the last week of December, that is the outcome we wanted: a price near the ask, a short escrow, and a closed comparable that the next seller in the community will thank us for.

What does the sale say about Rancho Palos Verdes?

That the Peninsula’s small gated communities are their own markets, priced on the view and the plan rather than on the city’s townhome average, and that a seller who prepares the association paperwork before listing removes the one thing that slows these sales down. The buyer paid for a view that runs the length of Santa Monica Bay, a primary suite built for two, and a location minutes from Peninsula Center and the schools it serves; see Rancho Palos Verdes for the neighborhoods and our schools page for how to verify a district by address. For what the view itself is worth, our note on the city’s view restoration ordinance explains how the city protects it.

Update: sold

If you own in one of the Peninsula’s small gated communities and want to know what your unit would bring against the last sale, send Neil the address; we keep the sales in these communities because the portals do not. The Sellers page describes how we prepare a listing.

Sources

• California Regional MLS listing record, SB25280791; closing figures as reported to the MLS
• Rancho Palos Verdes; Rancho Palos Verdes view restoration ordinance

Written December 2025; updated February 4, 2026. Property facts, list price and days on market are from the California Regional MLS listing record (SB25280791); 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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