Architect Peter Choate designed the seven-bedroom house at 6825 Zumirez Drive in Malibu, which stands behind gates on more than an acre and a half of orchards, gardens and lawn with a private door to Little Dume Beach. Its $28.07 million price led five reported home sales across the Los Angeles metro area that together came to $83.41 million in the week ending September 20, 2026.
Point Dume, the Hollywood Hills, Dana Point, The Flats and Newport Beach each account for one closing on the list. The group’s build history runs from a 1924 Spanish residence on a Beverly Hills block of Elm Drive to a 2020 architectural commission in the Bird Streets, and prices ran from $28.07 million at the top to $12.2 million at No. 5.
No. 1 — $28,066,970 · 6825 Zumirez Dr, Malibu, California
The house tops Zumirez Drive on a Point Dume bluff of more than an acre and a half, and it closed on September 16, 2026 for $28,066,970. Seven bedrooms and six bathrooms fill a reported 5,764 square feet behind a white farmhouse-inspired facade with a slate tile roof and copper accents. Coral trees and cascading bougainvillea line the 100-foot driveway, which crosses a bridge over ponds and brooks on the approach to the 1978 house.
Oak floors and French doors run through interiors that look out on the ocean, Catalina Island and the property’s orchards. The kitchen is fitted with white cabinetry, honed marble countertops, a Wolf six-burner range, a Sub-Zero refrigerator and a wine refrigerator, with brass nautical fixtures and a curved built-in bench in the eat-in nook. The living room carries beamed ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace and opens to the grounds. Upstairs, the primary suite has 11-foot beamed ceilings, a gas fireplace and ocean views, and four more bedrooms include Juliet balconies and dormer windows.
Manicured lawns, specimen trees and landscaped orchards surround a pool and a bluestone gas firepit, with ocean-view decks for entertaining. The property also holds a sunlit conservatory, guest suites facing the gardens, a laundry room, a generator and the private door to Little Dume Beach. It previously changed hands for $2,800,000 in 1995.
Branden Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates represented the listing side of the sale, which ranked No. 1 in RealtyWire’s Los Angeles Metro Area Top 5 for the week ending September 20, 2026 and carried the highest reported price on the week’s list. Christopher Cortazzo of Compass represented the buyer.
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No. 2 — $18,500,000 · 9265 Robin Dr, Los Angeles, California
A promontory at the end of a Bird Streets cul-de-sac holds the house at 9265 Robin Drive, which changed hands for $18,500,000. The transaction closed September 14, 2026. Listing materials identify XTEN Architects as the designer of the 2020 residence, cite an AIA Los Angeles award for most influential architecture that year, and trace the design’s inspiration to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A private courtyard leads into light-filled rooms defined by walls of glass and polished terrazzo floors, with gallery-scale wall space for art and views that reach from the city to the ocean. The plan runs to a reported 11,179 square feet with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, and includes an expansive living room, a combined kitchen and family room, a professional theater, a gym, a dance studio and an office. The primary suite has dual closets and a bath with a steam shower and soaking tub. Rooms frame an infinity pool and the lawn beyond it, and an eight-car subterranean garage sits below the house.
Listing agent Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency Inc. makes a second appearance in a RealtyWire Top 5 roundup for the Los Angeles metro area with the $18.5 million closing, which ranked No. 2 this week. Branden Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates represented the buyer.
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No. 3 — $12,400,000 · 20 Monarch Bay Dr, Dana Point, California
A ground-up 2015 build inside the guard-gated Monarch Bay community, 20 Monarch Bay Drive in Dana Point changed hands for $12,400,000 on September 18, 2026. The four-bedroom, four-bath house reports 3,849 square feet and faces whitewater surf, sand, the Dana Point Headlands, the Ritz-Carlton, Monarch Links Golf Course and city lights.
Smooth limestone plaster walls and Creme Marfil marble floors carry through the interior, where Nano bifold doors in the living and dining rooms fold back to the ocean side of the house. Custom trey ceilings and a dual-sided copper and glass fireplace mark the main rooms. The kitchen holds a quartz crystal island with bar seating, Arc Linea cabinetry, Silestone counters and Miele appliances, and a soundproofed, acoustically engineered theater and family room carry built-in audio, a drop-down projection screen and wine storage. A Crestron system manages lighting, security, whole-house audio and theater components, alongside automated shades, solar power, five HVAC zones and a tankless water heater.
The primary suite opens to a patio and includes a custom walk-in closet and a bath with heated floors and towel racks, an oversized walk-in shower, a soaking tub and a skylight; the secondary bedroom suites also have outdoor access. The grounds hold several entertaining areas, a Wolf-equipped barbecue island, an outdoor fireplace, a spa with cascading fountains, retractable awnings, outdoor speakers and a shower, a front courtyard with a fountain, and a two-car garage with a lift for two more cars. Monarch Bay residents have tennis and pickleball courts, a community park, a dog park, a playground and a private beach club with an indoor-outdoor bar, beachfront dining, firepits and towel, chair and umbrella service.
The sale ranked No. 3 in RealtyWire’s Los Angeles Metro Area Top 5 for the week ending September 20, 2026, with Kevin Aaronson of Keller Williams Realty as the listing agent. Ryan Immel of Pacific Sotheby’s Int’l Realty represented the buyer.
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No. 4 — $12,242,000 · 605 N Elm Dr, Beverly Hills, California
The Elm Estate sits behind mature hedging and wrought-iron gates on the 600 block of Elm Drive in the Beverly Hills Flats, and the reimagined modern Spanish residence closed on September 18, 2026 for $12,242,000. Built in 1924, it offers five bedrooms and seven bathrooms across a reported 6,172 square feet.
A courtyard leads to interiors with beamed ceilings, arches and a marble fireplace. The kitchen is anchored by an expansive marble island and opens to the family room, where pocket doors disappear to connect the house with the pool and the outdoor entertaining areas. The primary suite has a marble bath and dual dressing rooms, three more en suite bedrooms sit alongside it, and a pool house is set up to serve as a gym, office, wellness studio or guest space. The property previously changed hands for $6,625,000 in 2022.
Rochelle Maize of Nourmand & Associates-BH was the listing agent. The $12,242,000 closing put her on the listing side of the No. 4 sale in RealtyWire’s Los Angeles Metro Area Top 5 for the week. Gayle Weiss of Nourmand & Associates-BH represented the buyer.
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No. 5 — $12,200,000 · 1722 E Oceanfront, Newport Beach, California
On the Balboa Peninsula Point in Newport Beach, a 1990 house at 1722 E Oceanfront changed hands for $12,200,000, with the sale dated September 15, 2026. The residence carries five bedrooms and seven bathrooms across a reported 3,962 square feet.
Detailed listing remarks were not available for this property, so RealtyWire is reporting the transaction and the recorded property facts without a description of the interior or the grounds.
John Cain of Pacific Sotheby’s Int’l Realty was the listing agent. The closing ranked No. 5 in RealtyWire’s Los Angeles Metro Area Top 5 for the week ending September 20, 2026. Tara Foster Shapiro of Coldwell Banker Realty represented the buyer.
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