The Harbour Report
What sold dock to dock across the five islands and the Mainland: the real prices, the days on market, and what it means for your home. Written by the father-and-son team that has worked this water since 1977. No listing pitch, unsubscribe anytime.
“On the islands, the dock and the seawall frontage drive the comp, not the square footage of the house.”
Want the deep background first? The full Huntington Harbour brief.
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Why the water needs its own report
Huntington Harbour is five man-made islands and a Mainland strip, and each one is its own micro-market. A wide-channel end-tie on Trinidad and a north-facing slip on Humboldt are different products even when the homes behind them match. Averages hide that; the Report reads each sale the way a Harbour buyer would.
That's also why waterfront owners always want the neighbor's number. Now you'll have it, every month, with the context attached.
Inside every issue
Every waterfront closing, with the real number
Closing prices dock to dock across the five islands and the Mainland, not list prices and not estimates.
Days on market, sale by sale
How fast the water is moving this month, island by island, so you can read momentum instead of headlines.
The line only a local can write
Why one sale out-traded another: dock size, channel width, orientation, condition. The context that turns data into a read.
Off-market notes
When Compass Private Exclusives trade quietly, we note the activity level. Public sites never see these.
Impatient? The live waterfront market is already on the site: every Harbour waterfront home for sale right now.
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A first name and an email is all it takes. The next issue goes out early next month.
Send me the ReportQuestions Harbour owners ask
Every closed waterfront sale in Huntington Harbour that month, dock to dock across the five islands and the Mainland: the real closing price, days on market, and one line of context only a local would know, like why a north-facing slip traded under a smaller south-facing one. When Compass Private Exclusives close off-market, we note the activity public sites never show. One email, readable in three minutes.
No. It's the report we wish someone had been sending Harbour owners for the last forty years. There's no ask in it. Owners read it to know what their street is doing; that's the entire job. If you ever want a private read on your own home, you know where we are, but the Report never pushes.
All of them. Trinidad, Davenport, Gilbert, Humboldt, and Admiralty Islands, plus the Harbour Mainland, Seagate, and the Peninsula. Tell us your island when you sign up and we'll lead with the sales nearest you.
Portals treat the Harbour like any other zip code. On the water, the dock and the channel drive the number, not the square footage: a 50-foot end-tie on a wide channel routinely outsells a bigger home one block inland. The Report reads each sale the way a Harbour buyer would, which is why the same data tells a different story here.
Craig and Justin Ratowsky. Craig has sold on this water since 1977; Justin is a third-generation California Realtor® born and raised in Huntington Beach. Between them they've closed 900+ homes, a large share of them in and around the Harbour.
