Manhattan Beach Real Estate | East Manhattan Beach Area Tour

Dave Fratello of Edge Real Estate Agency presents this video tour of East Manhattan Beach. Get to know the area and facts about local housing with a local broker. | DRE #01880469

TRANSCRIPT OF EAST MANHATTAN BEACH AREA TOUR

East Manhattan Beach covers everything east of Sepulveda Boulevard.

About a third of the homes sold each year in the city are sold on the east side.

In the early years East Manhattan was the breadbasket of Manhattan Beach with farms growing crops to sell to residents west of Sepulveda, even raising animals, like chickens, goats and chinchillas.

Now East Manhattan is known as a suburban community with larger lots and therefore larger homes than you’ll typically find west of Sepulveda.

East Manhattan Beach runs east from Sepulveda Boulevard to Aviation Boulevard bordering up against North Redondo Beach. The northern border is more or less Marine Avenue, the entry to Manhattan Village. And the southern border is Artesia Boulevard.

Almost all of East Manhattan is zoned for single-family homes, except for areas right along or near to Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Artesia Boulevard, where there are more multi-family units.

Lots of people prefer East Manhattan lots, where a full-sized typical lot is 7500 square feet, 50 feet wide x 150 feet deep. This allows for a big house and a big yard, for a beach city. There are areas with smaller lots, just around 5000 square feet, and one district with huge lots of half an acre or more.

There are some distinct neighborhoods within East Manhattan. Liberty Village is a collection of postwar cottages laid down on a simple grid with sidewalks. The Mira Costa neighborhood mostly features the big 7500 square foot lots, and larger homes, with the city’s water tower looming over as a landmark at 8th and Rowell.

North of Manhattan Beach Boulevard, the Meadows neighborhood surrounds one of the elementary schools, with a mix of different lot sizes and home sizes. Manhattan Heights is part of this district as well.

And finally, Manhattan Village is the city’s only gated community. This area was developed all at once in the mid 1980s and features condos, townhomes, and some single family residences all behind guarded gates and surrounded by a golf course.

Children in East Manhattan Beach will generally go to Meadows Elementary if they live north of Manhattan Beach Boulevard, and Pennekamp Elementary if they live south of there. Manhattan Beach Middle School is at one edge of Polliwog Park near Liberty Village while Mira Costa High School is at the south end of town running along Artesia Boulevard.

For many families, the day-to-day convenience of being near school throughout their children’s development is a big plus.

A lot of the city’s parks and athletic fields are east of Sepulveda. The largest park, Polliwog Park has a duck pond and outdoor amphitheater, where we have summer concerts. Across the street are tennis courts, basketball courts, a baseball field, and the arts center. Four more large baseball and softball diamonds are together just off Marine Avenue, as well as an artificial turf soccer field and a new skate park.

You may hear people say, “There’s no life east to Sepulveda.” It’s an old put-down from the 1950s and 60s reflecting a preference for the beach areas over the suburbs.

The truth is there’s a lot going on east of the highway, with many of the cities schools and outdoor facilities concentrated here. And the homes are getting better all the time, as developers have come in with large new homes, mostly in beachy styles, and buyers increasingly say, “We’d like more space, this is the place for us!”

I’ve worked with buyers who have actually moved east from homes west of Sepulveda to get more for their money. (Home prices do tend to be somewhat lower east of Sepulveda, making the area even more attractive for some buyers.)

Well, thanks for coming along. When you're ready for a local broker to help you with your purchase or sale here in Manhattan Beach or nearby please give me a call, I'd love to help!

Dave Fratello | Broker, Confidential Realty | (310) 243-6299

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