Point Vicente asks 7% more than Rancho Palos Verdes as a whole.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California · Neighborhood guide
Point Vicente
The lighthouse corner of the Peninsula, with whales off the bluff and Trader Joe's up the road
Median askingPoint Vicente$2.35M5 for sale
See homesPoint Vicente, in short.
Point Vicente is the western turn of the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Rancho Palos Verdes, where the coast swings from Santa Monica Bay to the open Pacific under a 67-foot lighthouse first lit in 1926. The Interpretive Center's bluff lawn next door is one of the best places in Los Angeles to watch gray whales from shore, December into May, and Golden Cove, with a Trader Joe's and a Starbucks, covers errands. Homes split between 1960s-70s view tracts upslope and the gated Oceanfront Estates on the bluff. As of September 2026, six homes were listed in our map area, from a $769,000 condo to about $15.8 million, with houses starting near $2 million.
Point Vicente by the numbers.
- 4,953Population
- 89%Homeowner-occupiedoccupied homes
- 74%Bachelor's degree or higherage 25+
- $175,972Median household income
- 53Median age
- 1926Lighthouse litStill an active Coast Guard light
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year 2019–2023; neighborhood facts compiled by The Slava House.
The corner where the coast turns
A lighthouse on the point, and the western Peninsula's grocery run next to it.
Point Vicente is where the Palos Verdes Peninsula turns its shoulder: north of here the coast faces Santa Monica Bay and the beach cities, and south of here it opens to the Pacific. The 1926 lighthouse stands right on that pivot, and the neighborhood around it gets the scenery and the errands both.
The bluff is the public side. The Point Vicente Interpretive Center and its clifftop lawns serve as the neighborhood park and a wedding-photo backdrop, and they're one of the best places in Los Angeles to watch gray whales from shore. They pass from December into May, southbound in winter and northbound with calves in spring, and dolphins are a regular sight in between.
For errands there's Golden Cove. The center at Hawthorne Boulevard and Palos Verdes Drive West has a Trader Joe's, a Starbucks with an ocean-view patio, a pharmacy, and a row of small restaurants and services. On a peninsula where most errands mean a drive over the hill, that matters.
Add Terranea's restaurants and coastal paths next door and Pelican Cove's tidepools below, and you can run most of daily life without leaving this stretch of coast.
Live from the MLS
Point Vicente compared with all of Rancho Palos Verdes.
A square foot in Point Vicente costs 23% more than across Rancho Palos Verdes.
Point Vicente$968
All of Rancho Palos Verdes$787
Listings in Point Vicente have been on the market 33 days longer than across Rancho Palos Verdes.
What’s for sale
80% of the homes for sale in Point Vicente are single-family houses.
- Single-family80%4 homes
- Condo20%1 home
Homes for sale in Point Vicente are 10% bigger than across Rancho Palos Verdes.
Point Vicente2,760 sq ft
All of Rancho Palos Verdes2,499 sq ft
Each card sets the median in Point Vicente against all of Rancho Palos Verdes. The arrow on a card lists every Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhood we cover. Asking prices for homes on the market right now inside each mapped area, not sale prices. Updated October 17, 2026, 10:00 AM PT
Homes for sale in Point Vicente
5 active listings in the mapped area
$1,998,000
Single-Family4 bd2 ba2,064 sqft
30857 Rue Valois
$11,400,000
Single-Family7 bd8 ba7,869 sqft
29 Via Del Cielo
$769,000
Condo2 bd2 ba1,313 sqft
50 Via Capri
$2,350,000
Single-Family5 bd4 ba2,760 sqft
30902 Rue De La Pierre
$15,538,468
Single-Family7 bd8 ba7,969 sqft
57 Via Del Cielo
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Where to eat, shop, and explore in Point Vicente
The restaurants, cafes, shops, parks, and landmarks that give Point Vicente its everyday character, most within a short walk.
11 places
Pick one and I’ll show you where it is.
Landmark5 min walk
The 67-foot tower on a 130-foot cliff that has marked the Peninsula's western turn since 1926. It's still an active Coast Guard light, now an LED; the original 1886 Fresnel lens came out in 2019 and is on display at the Interpretive Center.
The grounds usually open on the second Saturday of each month, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; the classic photo is from the Interpretive Center lawn next door.
Park5 min walk
The small museum and clifftop park next door to the lighthouse, with the tower's original Fresnel lens now on display. Gray whales pass from December into May.
Bring binoculars in winter; in season the census volunteers on the bluff can point you to the blows. People come out for sunset all year.
Shopping5 min walk
The clifftop errand center at Hawthorne and Palos Verdes Drive West: Trader Joe's, a Starbucks with an ocean-view patio, a pharmacy, and a row of small restaurants and services.
The Starbucks patio at golden hour is the cheapest front-row seat on the south coast.
Beach10 min walk
Clifftop parking and a short, steep trail to some of the Peninsula's richest tidepools, between the lighthouse and Terranea.
Check the tide chart; the shelf is at its best on a minus tide.
Recreation5 min walk
Public bluff-top trails around the point and along the Oceanfront Estates edge, running from the lighthouse lawns toward the PVE border.
Restaurant25 min walk
A casual clifftop spot at Terranea with fire pits, fish tacos and sunset views, open to non-guests.
Restaurant15 min walk
Terranea's fine-dining Californian restaurant, the peninsula's main special-occasion table.
Coffee15 min walk
An espresso and pastry cafe in the Terranea lobby, open to day visitors.
Coffee5 min walk
A bakery and cafe in Golden Cove, across the road from the ocean.
Nightlife5 min walk
A craft-beer bar in Golden Cove, the closest thing to nightlife on this coast.
Beach10 min walk
An easy public coastal trail across Terranea's grounds from the Pelican Cove lot, with tidepool coves below.
Bluff estates and hillside view tracts
Two distinct markets share the lighthouse.
The top of the market is Oceanfront Estates, the gated enclave of large Mediterranean homes on the bluff north of the lighthouse, built mostly in the 2000s. The lots are big and the houses match. The city's Vicente Bluffs Reserve trails run along the ocean edge, so residents can walk to the lighthouse lawns.
Upslope of Hawthorne, the neighborhood is a generation older: 1960s and 1970s single-family tracts on curving streets, many with ocean or Catalina views over the rooftops below, at prices well under the gated bluff. These streets are where the neighborhood's long-term families live, and where remodels keep turning original ranches into contemporary view homes.
Between the two, smaller condo and townhome complexes near Golden Cove are the area's entry point, popular with downsizers who are done with yard work.
All three face west. You get afternoon sun and marine layer as daily facts, and near the edge, the usual Peninsula bluff checks on geology, drainage and setbacks.
- Oceanfront Estates: gated bluff homes, built mostly in the 2000s, at the top of the market
- The 1960s-70s view tracts upslope are where the long-term families live
- Condos near Golden Cove are the entry point; bluff-edge diligence applies coast-wide
The lighthouse and the whales
Every winter since 1984, volunteers have counted gray whales from this bluff.
The lighthouse has worked this corner since 1926: a 67-foot tower on a 130-foot cliff, its light 185 feet above the water. Its lens, a third-order Fresnel made in Paris in 1886 that first served in Alaska, came out of the tower in February 2019 when the Coast Guard switched to an LED, and it's now on display at the Interpretive Center. The grounds usually open to visitors on the second Saturday of each month. After World War II a story spread about a Lady of the Light pacing the tower in a white gown; the Coast Guard blamed an extra coat of paint on the lantern glass.
The small museum at the Interpretive Center next door covers the coast's natural history, but most people come for the bluff. Live here a year and you'll know the calendar: southbound gray whales in winter, mothers and calves heading north in spring. Since 1984, American Cetacean Society volunteers have run a gray whale census from this bluff every season, December 1 into late May. Christopher Nolan also spent two weeks filming parts of Dunkirk (2017) at the center and the lighthouse.
Below the point, Pelican Cove's trail drops to tidepool shelves at their best on a minus tide, and the bluff-top trails connect the lawns north along the Oceanfront Estates edge and south toward Terranea, so this whole turn of coast walks as one public route.
- The 1926 lighthouse still works and opens on second Saturdays
- Gray whales pass the bluff from December into May
- Pelican Cove's tidepools and the bluff trails connect to it
Shops and restaurants close to home
Golden Cove and Terranea make this the most self-sufficient corner of the south coast.
Most errands happen at Golden Cove. There's Trader Joe's for groceries, the Starbucks patio over the ocean, a pharmacy, and small restaurants and services. For bigger runs, Peninsula Center is over the hill, but you'll need it less often than you'd think.
Terranea is a few minutes from any driveway here. People use it for special-occasion dinners, a drink at Nelson's on the cliff, the spa, and the public paths along its 102 oceanfront acres.
Addresses here are in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District; ask the district which schools a particular house gets. Commuting is slow. Every trip starts with Hawthorne over the hill or the coast road around it, and people here accept that in exchange for evenings on the bluff when the marine layer pulls back.
- Golden Cove covers groceries, coffee and the pharmacy on one corner
- Terranea next door is where people go out
- PVPUSD schools; every commute starts with Hawthorne over the hill
What sets prices in Point Vicente
You pay for the bluff, or for the convenience.
Point Vicente pricing runs on two premiums. The first is the bluff: Oceanfront Estates and anything in the first row on the ocean trade at the top of Rancho Palos Verdes. The second is convenience: even the inland tracts here tend to carry a markup over similar streets deeper in the city, because buyers will pay to have the park and the errands close.
As of September 2026, six homes were for sale in our map area: a two-bedroom condo at $769,000, three houses from about $2 million to $2.5 million, and two large bluff-side houses at about $11.4 million and $15.8 million. If you're after value, look at the upslope tracts: 1960s-70s homes with real view potential and room to remodel, a tier below the gated bluff.
One caution about the numbers on this page: this stretch shares its census tract with the wider south coast, so the demographic tiles describe the broader area. For pricing, go by recent sales on the same street and row.
- Bluff premium at Oceanfront Estates; convenience premium everywhere else
- Upslope 1960s-70s tracts are the value-and-remodel play
- Price against street-level comps; the census tract spans the wider coast
More Point Vicente facts
- 185 ftLight height67-foot tower on a 130-foot cliff
- 2019Lens retired1886 Fresnel lens, now at the Interpretive Center
- Dec-MayWhale seasonGray whales pass within sight of the bluff
- 2009Terranea openedOn the 1954-87 Marineland site
- 1 centerErrandsGolden Cove: groceries, coffee, pharmacy
Rentals in Point Vicente
2 active rentals in the mapped area
Questions & answers
Yes, it's one of the most convenient corners of coastal Rancho Palos Verdes. The 1926 lighthouse and the whale-watch park sit on the bluff, Golden Cove has groceries, coffee and a pharmacy on one clifftop corner, and Terranea is next door. Homes range from gated bluff estates to 1960s-70s view tracts. You still drive for anything beyond the neighborhood, mornings are often gray with marine layer, and prices are coastal.
Explore near Point Vicente
2.0 mi away · Palos Verdes EstatesLunada BayMidcentury view streets on 150-foot bluffs above the Peninsula's best-known winter waveRead the guide ›2.1 mi awayPortuguese BendRancho Palos Verdes' wild south coast, on land that won't hold stillRead the guide ›3.0 mi away · Palos Verdes EstatesMontemalagaBig midcentury lots 800 to 1,000 feet up the Palos Verdes Estates hillside, with the Queen's Necklace below at nightRead the guide ›3.6 mi away · Palos Verdes EstatesMalaga CoveThe first streets the Olmsteds drew, still centered on a 1920s arcaded plazaRead the guide ›3.8 mi awaySeaview & Ocean TrailsCatalina-view streets next to a clifftop golf course whose coast anyone can walkRead the guide ›4.6 mi awayMiralesteThe Peninsula's 1920s east slope, under old pines, with the harbor lit up belowRead the guide ›
Where we check the facts
The facts in this guide (districts, zones, rules) come from the official records below. We re-check them before property tours.
- Point Vicente Lighthouseen.wikipedia.org1926, height, lens history, second-Saturday open days
- Whale watching: gray whale season off Southern Californiaen.wikipedia.orgDecember to May migration, Point Vicente
- Terranea Resort: historyterranea.comopened June 2009, 102 acres, Marineland site
- Marineland of the Pacificen.wikipedia.org1954 to 1987
- American Cetacean Society LA: gray whale censusacs-la.orgcensus at Point Vicente since 1984, Dec 1 to late May
- Dunkirk (2017 film): productionen.wikipedia.orgfilming at Point Vicente
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- City of Rancho Palos Verdes: Palos Verdes Nature Preserverpvca.govreserves including Vicente Bluffs
- Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School Districtpvpusd.netconfirm school assignments by address
- City of Rancho Palos Verdesrpvca.govpermits, land-movement and geology updates
Photo credits (6)
- Point Vicente Lighthouse after sunset, with Catalina on the horizoncarlfbagge, CC BY 2.0
- Sunset from the rocky cove below Point Vicente LighthouseNatecation, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The moon setting at dawn beside the Point Vicente cliffs, seen from TerraneaTracie Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Paddleboarders on a calm sea at sunset off Point VicenteBureau of Land Management California, Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Sunrise on the public coastal trail across the Terranea groundsTracie Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Homes along the bluff north of the lighthouse, above the Vicente Bluffs covesSergei Gussev, CC BY 2.0