New
$8,450,000
Villa Perdida
1180 Camino Viejo · Montecito5 bd6.5 ba6,240 sq ft2.1 ac
Coastal & canyon properties · Santa Barbara County
Homes that rarely come to market twice.
A small firm representing a short list of exceptional properties — and the buyers patient enough to wait for the right one.
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DRE #01998220
Current portfolioEleven properties.
Eleven properties.
No open houses.
We represent a deliberately small number of homes at any time. Three are shown here; the rest are shared privately with qualified buyers before they reach the MLS.
Private
$12,900,000
The Bluff House
Padaro Lane · Carpinteria4 bd5 ba4,880 sq ftOcean
In escrow
$5,275,000
Rancho Alamar
Foothill Road · Santa Barbara6 bd5.5 ba5,410 sq ft4.4 ac
The firm
Two agents.
Two agents.
Eleven listings.
No assistants
returning your call.
Marlowe & Grove was founded on a simple limit: we take only as many clients as two people can serve properly. You work with a principal from the first walkthrough to the day the wire clears.
26Years in the county
$1.4BCareer volume
18Days average to offer
98.6%Of list price achieved
Where we workFour pockets
Four pockets
we know cold.
We don't claim the whole coast. These are the neighborhoods we've sold in for two decades — where we know which houses are quietly available before anyone lists them.
MontecitoUpper VillageEstates on an acre or more, with the school district that keeps resale strong.
CarpinteriaPadaro LaneTwenty-nine beachfront parcels. Perhaps two trade in a good year.
Santa BarbaraHope RanchBridle trails, private beach, and the last large lots inside the city.
SummerlandThe BluffsOcean views at two-thirds the Montecito number, for now.
“They talked us out of the first house. Six weeks later they brought us one that never hit the market.”Buyers · Hope Ranch, 2025
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