A Buyer's Dream Town

Huntington Beach: Always A Buyer's Dream Town


I've preached from the hilltops already how this unique period in history is creating an ideal but already closing window of opportunity for residential real estate buyers and sellers.  I have no doubt that homily will resurface here in this blog, though perhaps not until we are facing the next phase in this ever-transforming real estate market (which I anticipate to be a less heated, slower paced, but even more balanced buyer/seller market), and my comments about the soon-to-be-gone urgent conditions of the day will be little more than a "I told you so" diatribe.  For the moment, however, I am done with my ranting as to WHY you should buy and buy NOW.  I want to talk about WHERE you should buy.  I've helped buyers buy and sellers sell homes all over Southern California, but there is a reason why my home and my focus is in Huntington Beach: the city is the perfect balance of everything a homeowner could want in one town.

I'll admit it is easy to brag about Huntington Beach right now.  Summer is here, and summers in Huntington Beach are nothing short of legendary.  People may not know it by name, but when they are thinking of summer just about anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, they are likely picturing an image which could easily be taken from the beachfront along Huntington Beach.  My Huntington Beach readers who are already residents know one of the main selling points of our town, for anyone who loves the beach and/or surfing, is our role as the perennial home of the US Open of Surfing  http://www.usopenofsurfing.com/ .  Although the event is a month away in the depth of summer, from July 20th to the 28th, Huntington Beach is already getting ready to play host of a global celebration for the ultimate summer event.  Regardless of one's level of interest or understanding of the sport of surfing itself, the sheer numbers of activities and peripheral events (and people from all around the world coming to participate) make this the premier Southern California beach event.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the other unique advantage to living in Huntington Beach is not only it's own events, or its personality kept relatively intact while still being able to constantly reinvent and regenerate itself; Huntington Beach enjoys a fantastic proximity to just about anywhere you would want to go in Southern California.  San Diego's many attractions?  South on 405 will take you there.  Get some skiing in?  Multiple routes inland and to the north.  Want to see what's happening in the other Orange County beach communities? Take Pacific Coast Highway due south, each city has a distinct personality as you go down to San Onofre.  Want to walk on the wilder side of beach communities (that is, get out of Orange County)?  Head due north on Pacific Coast Highway.  In fact, if you'll like the US Open of Surfing, you'll love some of the events going on with our neighbors to the north, such as the South Bay International Surf Festival from July 31st to August 4th.  Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach and Torrance explode with surfing and surf-related beach events during this beach lover's dream festival.  Getting there from Huntington Beach is a gorgeous summer ride, with windows or convertible top down, along the longest stretch of beachfront or beach-close highway in California; so rare is the "getting there' as good as the arrival.

To reiterate a few previous blogs: buy now.  To reiterate this blog in three words: buy Huntington Beach.



Ann Stefanucci
714-822-9453
annstefanucci@gmail.com