Harbor Island Homes For Sale In Newport Beach, Ca

All of Newport Beach’s waterfront communities are prestigious, but perhaps none so as much as Harbor Island.  Located at the end of Harbor Island Drive, its residents enjoy a rare privacy while still enjoying proximity to all of the city’s amenities.  Sunsets and harbor views from this island of just 34 homes are second to none.  Private docks that can accommodate large boats and a security-guarded entrance further enhance the island’s desirability. 

Another 62 waterfront homes on Harbor Island Drive complete this neighborhood located just off Pacific Coast Highway and Bayside Drive.  Each of these homes also have private boat docks and beautiful water views. Homes on Harbor Island Drive have sold in the four million dollar range over the past two years.

Picture the island: a part of Newport Beach that can be walked end to end in 15 minutes–less if you don’t stop to gawk–but oh so private and hard to reach. Signs on Bayside Drive direct motorists away from this little jewel, and access is via a bridge wide enough for only one car at a time.

Nearly all the houses have private docks. While there technically is public access from the water, once someone gets from the water onto the island, he’s on private property.

Some of the houses feature swimming pools or tennis courts. Most are built on lots in the 5,000- to 9,000-square-foot range.

This is tiny Harbor Island, where decades ago the lots went for $5,000–or $2,500 if you built a house on the property within a year of purchase. Now it’s the home of the $9-million tear-down, and, foot-for-foot, may be the priciest enclave in Orange County.

One family owned two lots from 1928 through 1989. Title to the property then changed hands four times in 18 months; two men who paid $6.6 million in May, 1989, sold it eight months later for around $9 million.The Harbor Island community is located in the Balboa Island area of Newport Beach, California.  Harbor Island is an exclusive gated community with some of the most expensive waterfront homes for sale in all of Newport Beach.  Homes on Harbor Island can have expanisve water front frontage.  A current home on the market in Harbor Island boasts 134 feet of water front frontage on the Turning Basin with spectacular views of the Bay.  Home in Harbor Island also have views of the main channel and anchor basin of Newport Harbor with the ability to accomodate a fleet of large yachts in the larger estate homes.  Below are the current homes for sale in Harbor Island.  Newport Beach Real Estate is home to some of the most expensive real estate for sale in all of Orange County, California.  It’s no wonder that Newport Beach Real Estate is some of the most sought after real estate in Orange County, California.