Three estates at night

Ardenwood Crescent

Three homes. One extraordinary address.

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Villa Sol The Glass Horizon Crown Manor

Est. 1998 — Valley & Coast

A house is bought in daylight. A home is chosen at night, when the windows are lit and you can picture yourself inside one of them.

Elena Vance, Principal Broker

Twelve hours apart

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The crescent at night
The crescent by day
Day Night

The Crescent

Three residences, released together for the first time.

Villa Sol at night
Sculptural stair beneath a chandelier
Living room with fireplace

01

Villa Sol

Spanish Mediterranean

Hand-troweled plaster, a clay tile roof aged on purpose, and an arcaded loggia that holds the last hour of sun. The courtyard was designed around an olive tree that predates the street.

Interior
6,400 sq ft
Bedrooms
Five
Baths
Six
Guide
$4.25M
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The Glass Horizon at night
Chaise beside a full-height window
Minimal white kitchen

02

The Glass Horizon

Modern Architectural

Two storeys of glazing set between quarried stone piers. The stair is a single folded plate of blackened steel. At dusk the whole ground floor reads as one continuous room, inside and out.

Interior
7,800 sq ft
Bedrooms
Six
Baths
Seven
Guide
$6.90M
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Crown Manor at night
Formal living room
Principal bedroom

03

Crown Manor

English Brick Estate

Tumbled brick, limestone surrounds, and a slate roof with two gables facing the crescent. Inside, quarter-sawn oak and a library that keeps its own fireplace. Built to look like it has always been here.

Interior
7,100 sq ft
Bedrooms
Five
Baths
Six & a half
Guide
$5.40M
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Portfolio

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Portrait of Elena Vance

The broker

Elena Vance

I represent eleven to fourteen homes a year. Not more. Every one of them I have walked at dawn, at noon, and after dark, because that is the only way to know what you are actually selling.

Twenty-two years in architecturally significant residential property, the last nine of them independent. I work with a photographer, a stylist and a structural surveyor I have used since 2011, and I do not list a house until all three have been through it.

Lifetime volume
Years representing
Of guide achieved
Days median to offer

How it goes

Four conversations, then a sale.

  1. 01

    The walk

    Two hours, no valuation talk. I need to see the house the way a buyer will — where the light lands, what you apologise for, what you are proud of.

  2. 02

    The number

    A written position with comparable evidence, the three prices I think it trades at, and which of them I would actually take. No flattery pricing.

  3. 03

    The work

    Styling, survey, photography at the right hour, and a private release to my list before anything goes public. Most of my sales happen in this window.

  4. 04

    The close

    I run every negotiation myself and you hear from me the day something changes, including when nothing has. Through to keys.

She told us not to list for six weeks. It cost her nothing to say it and made us four hundred thousand dollars.

M. & J. Halloran — Old Quarry

Three agents gave us a number they thought we wanted. Elena gave us the one the market gave back.

D. Reyes — The Bluffs

She answered the phone on a Sunday in August, from a boat, and had the survey issue solved by Monday.

A. Lindqvist — Hillcrest Park

We were the buyers, not her clients, and she still told us what was wrong with the roof.

S. Okonkwo — Ardenwood Crescent

Private enquiry

Tell me which window was yours.

Viewings on the crescent are by appointment, generally after six so you can see the houses lit. Everything you send stays between us.