I think late last year we saw a plan 3 in Derby Hills. Tell me if I am right. We were going to look at homes in an area called Meadows Del Mar (Grand Del Mar), which is off of Carmel Creek Road (or Carmel Country Road, I get them mixed up), just south of the 56 and then to the East up a long hill past the Grand Del Mar Resort.
We were early so decided to kill time and go all the way up the hill up Carmel Creek to look around. We went past Lexington homes and deep into the area and then took a right and drove some more and found a group of model homes. They were in this price range you mentioned. The one we liked the best was around 4,000sf + and was like 3 stories. While it felt small, and the lot tiny, I recall liking a few things about it. It had a courtyard in the middle of the house that was very nice and egress and ingress from the house was well thought out. It had seperate stairs, if I recall correctly, from the courtyard going to the second floor. It had a fully built out attic set up as a kids room. Is this the plan you folks are talking about? If so, I agree that it was a very well thought out plan and very nice use of space.
If the cost of a nice one is $1.8M, however, you can get a very nice 5,000sf or larger home on an acre for just a little more than that ($2M or just a bit more) in places like Fairbanks Highlands and Mendiola, which are essentially CV, or something in the mid 3,000sf range in RSF. That suggests that these DH homes, if that is what I saw, are still overpriced. If the home I saw was DH, I also noticed that you got no view and your house was on top of your neighbor’s more than those other parts of CV I mentioned.
