Valmonte

Housing stock is largely European-influenced architecture, with individual outliers throughout. Walking trails, local beaches and the Palos Verdes Golf Course are a short distance away. Valmonte sits inside Palos Verdes Estates, so exterior changes fall under Palos Verdes Homes Association architectural review, worth confirming the scope of that review before planning a remodel.

What do homes cost in Valmonte?

Over the twelve months ending August 2026, detached homes in MLS area 164 (Valmonte) sold at a median price of $2,324,500 and an average price of $2,770,644, across 36 closed sales. The median price per square foot was $1,117.

Average and median describe the same market differently. The average is every sale added together and divided by the number of sales, so a small number of high-value homes lifts it. The median is the middle sale, so the median stays closer to the typical home. Both are shown here. Why the two numbers differ, and which one to use.

How much is available in Valmonte at any one time?

MLS area 164 (Valmonte) carried 1.7 months of inventory over the twelve months ending August 2026, the tightest supply of the Palos Verdes MLS areas tracked on this site. Homes in Valmonte sold in a median of 19 days at 96.4% of original list price. Valmonte also recorded 36 closed sales for the period, second only to MLS area 160 (Lunada Bay), so the neighborhood combines steady turnover with very little standing inventory.

Source: California Regional MLS (CRMLS), via InfoSparks. Residential detached homes, rolling twelve months ending August 2026, reported by MLS area. Refreshed quarterly. Market statistics describe neighborhoods, not individual homes, and no figure here is an appraisal or opinion of value for any specific property.

Where is Valmonte?

Valmonte occupies the northeastern corner of Palos Verdes Estates, where the Peninsula meets the flatland, bordering Torrance along Palos Verdes Drive North. It is the first part of the Peninsula you reach coming up from the north, and it does not feel like the rest of it. The topography is gentler, the lots are generally flatter, and the canyon running through the middle gives the neighborhood its shape. People who find the bluff neighborhoods too steep or too remote tend to end up looking here. In the MLS it is area 164.

What is Valmonte Farm and Garden?

Valmonte Farm and Garden is a working farm on a 1.5 acre site at 3801 Via La Selva, with a farm stand open to the public on Saturday mornings from 9:30am to 12:30pm. You can pick your own herbs, buy eggs and produce, get a coffee and feed the chickens. It has operated for over a decade. By its own account the farm began as a way to teach life and job skills to transitional students from the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District, and that remains its stated mission. It is worth saying plainly that this is unusual. Palos Verdes Estates has no farmers market and very little public programming of any kind, by design. A working farm with a Saturday stand inside city limits is close to the only thing of its type up here, and it sits in Valmonte.

What else is in Valmonte?

The Palos Verdes Golf Club sits in Valmonte, and the neighborhood’s canyon and bridle trails connect into the Peninsula’s wider trail network. The equestrian infrastructure here is real rather than ornamental. Trails run through the canyon and along the edges of the neighborhood, and horse keeping is part of the area’s history. Whether any individual lot permits horses is a parcel-level question, not a neighborhood one, and it should be verified against the zoning for the specific address.

What kind of homes are in Valmonte?

Valmonte’s housing stock is predominantly single-family homes on generous lots, with a good deal of period architecture from the original Palos Verdes Estates build-out and a steady pattern of remodels and rebuilds. Prices generally run below the bluff neighborhoods of Palos Verdes Estates, which is the trade for being further from the water and closer to the city edge. For buyers weighing Malaga Cove or Lunada Bay and finding the entry point difficult, Valmonte is usually the next conversation.

What should buyers know about Valmonte?

Two Palos Verdes Estates conditions apply here as they do everywhere in the city, and both are parcel-specific. The Neighborhood Compatibility and Art Jury review governs exterior work. If a plan changes the street elevation, the review sits on the critical path and should be budgeted for rather than discovered late. Fire hazard severity zone classification varies lot by lot across the Peninsula, and since July 1, 2021 selling in a high or very high zone has required documentation of a compliant defensible space inspection. Pull the classification at the start of escrow, not the end. Neither is a reason to look elsewhere. Both are answerable inside a normal contingency period, provided nobody leaves them to the last week.

Which schools serve Valmonte?

Valmonte is served by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. Attendance boundaries are set by the district and change. Verify the current boundary for any specific address rather than relying on a listing or a map pin.

Working with a Valmonte agent

Valmonte rewards knowing the canyon. Which lots sit above it, which back onto the trail network, which streets carry the traffic coming up from Torrance, and how the Art Jury has treated work on a given block. Chhabria Real Estate Company has worked this hill since 1984, from an office in Lunada Bay a few minutes away. If you are weighing a specific address in Valmonte, we are glad to walk it with you.

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