248 N Glenroy Avenue

Bel-Air opened in the early 1920s, when Alphonzo Bell carved an estate district out of his ranch land above Sunset Boulevard and sold it as hillside acreage. The terrain did the pricing then and it still does: lots climb, pads get cut, and level ground has always been the scarce commodity. The county lot record here reads 62,726 square feet, a shade over an acre and four tenths, and it lies flat.

The assessor dates the house to 1951, a midcentury single-family of 4,899 square feet holding five bedrooms and six baths behind its own gates. The grounds carry the rest of the program: a resort-scale pool, a paddle tennis court, a cabana fitted out as a gym, and off-street parking for more than twenty cars.

From the grounds the sightline runs from the city lights across the marina to open water, with Catalina on the horizon on a clear day. Flat land rarely comes with a view in Los Angeles; this parcel manages both, which is most of the argument for it.

The offering travels with concept designs credited to SAOTA for a compound of nearly 14,000 square feet, drawn for this ground. Nothing obliges a buyer to build them. They exist to state what the land can hold: a 1951 estate to live in now, and an acre and a half that is already thinking ahead.

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