Valmonte
A Saturday farm stand and a coop full of chickens at Valmonte Farm and Garden. A path along the eucalyptus-lined greenbelt through the middle of the neighborhood. Bridle trails dropping into the canyon. That’s Valmonte, and if you want Palos Verdes Estates with gentler streets and a shorter drive to the Beach Cities, this corner of the hill is built for it.
Valmonte sits at the base of the hill between the Beach Cities and Peninsula Center, so Pacific Coast Highway is closer than from most other Palos Verdes neighborhoods. Most homes show European-influenced architecture, with individual outliers throughout, and walking trails, local beaches and the Palos Verdes Golf Course are a short distance away. Valmonte is inside Palos Verdes Estates, so exterior changes go through Palos Verdes Homes Association architectural review. Confirm the scope of that review before you plan a remodel.
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What do homes cost in Valmonte, and how fast do they sell?
Over the twelve months from October 2025 through September 2026, single-family detached homes in MLS area 164 (Valmonte) sold in a median of 19 days, at 96.4 percent of the original asking price, about $36,000 under asking for every $1 million. With 13 sales from July through September and only 2 homes for sale on October 11, everything listed would sell in about two weeks at that pace.
The median sale was $2,350,000 and the average $2,803,763, across 33 closed sales, at a median of $1,143 per square foot. If you own here, that thin supply works in your favor. If you’re buying, be ready to move when the right house lists, since there may be only one or two to choose from.
| MLS area 164, Valmonte | October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Median days on market | 19 |
| Share of original asking price | 96.4% |
| Months of inventory | 0.5 |
| Median sale price | $2,350,000 |
| Average sale price | $2,803,763 |
| Median price per square foot | $1,143 |
| Closed sales | 33 |
Average and median measure the same market two ways. The average adds every sale together and divides by the number of sales, so a few high-value homes pull it up. The median is the middle sale, so it stays closer to the typical home. We show both. Why the two numbers differ, and which one to use.
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How much is for sale in Valmonte at any one time?
Valmonte had 0.5 months of inventory on October 11, 2026, less than any other Palos Verdes MLS area we report on this site. It also recorded 33 closed sales over the twelve months, second only to MLS area 160 (Lunada Bay), so the neighborhood pairs steady turnover with very few homes on the market at once.
Source: CRMLS closed sales, single-family detached homes, October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, from Chhabria Real Estate Company’s October 11, 2026 pull. Months of inventory uses active listings counted on October 11, 2026. Stats presented here represent the city or area as a whole, not any one individual property. Our next update follows the November 10, 2026 market report.
Where is Valmonte?
Valmonte is the northeastern corner of Palos Verdes Estates, where the Peninsula meets the flatland, along Palos Verdes Drive North at the Torrance line. It’s the first part of the Peninsula you reach coming up from the north. The topography is gentler, the lots are generally flatter, and the canyon through the middle gives the neighborhood its shape. In Neil’s experience, buyers who find the bluff neighborhoods too steep or too far out often 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 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. You can pick your own herbs, buy eggs and produce, get a coffee and feed the chickens. It has operated for more than 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. Palos Verdes Estates has no farmers market and very little public programming by design, so a working farm with a Saturday stand inside city limits is a rare find up here.
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. Trails run through the canyon and along the edges of the neighborhood, and horse keeping is part of the area’s history. Whether a particular lot allows horses depends on the parcel, so check the zoning for the exact address.
What kinds of homes are in Valmonte?
Most homes are single-family houses on generous lots, with plenty of period architecture from the original Palos Verdes Estates build-out and a steady pattern of remodels and rebuilds. Prices run below the bluff neighborhoods of Palos Verdes Estates: Valmonte’s median was $2,350,000 over the twelve months, against $2,824,000 in Lunada Bay and $3,499,000 in Malaga Cove. That’s the trade for being farther from the water and closer to the city edge. In Neil’s experience, buyers who find Malaga Cove or Lunada Bay hard to reach on price usually look at Valmonte next.
What should you check before you buy in Valmonte?
Two Palos Verdes Estates rules apply here as they do across the city, and both depend on the parcel:
- Exterior work goes through Neighborhood Compatibility and Art Jury review. If your plan changes how the house looks from the street, budget time for that review from the start.
- 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.
Both fit inside a normal contingency period, as long as you start them early.
Which schools serve Valmonte?
Valmonte is in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. The district sets attendance boundaries and changes them, so check the current boundary for your exact address instead of relying on a listing or a map pin.
Buying or selling in Valmonte?
In Valmonte, knowing the canyon pays off: 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 sold homes on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and in the Beach Cities since 1984, from our office in Palos Verdes Estates a few minutes away. If you’re weighing an address in Valmonte, we’ll walk it with you.
Buying, selling, or still working out whether the South Bay is where to set down roots? Neil Chhabria, Broker, 310.798.3122, [email protected].
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