The community journal of the Palos Verdes Peninsula — four cities, one Hill Corrections & tips → email us
Palos Verdes Life The Peninsula · 90274 & 90275
Neighborhood guide · Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274

Lunada Bay

Lunada Bay is the southern district of Palos Verdes Estates, reaching along the coast from Bluff Cove past the bay itself to the Rancho Palos Verdes line. It was one of the four original districts of Frank A. Vanderlip's Palos Verdes Project, laid out by the Olmsted Brothers, and its largest tracts were recorded in 1924.

Updated October 26, 2026 · County records from the 2026 roll · Sources at the bottom of the page · Send a correction

2,388
homes
county assessor records
19
tract guides
1966
median year built
10,380 sq ft
median lot
single-family homes
Quick facts

Lunada Bay at a glance

Also calledMargate
CityPalos Verdes Estates · ZIP 90274
BuiltOver several decades (median 1966; oldest 1924, newest 2025)
Homes2,388 homes: 2,239 single-family houses; 1 planned-development home; 84 condominium or townhome units; 64 apartment units · 28 vacant residential lots
Living areaMedian about 2,830 sq ft per home; 4 bedrooms typical for single-family houses
LotsMedian single-family lot about 10,380 sq ft (middle half 8,470 sq ft to 15,200 sq ft)
Recorded tracts40 recorded tract maps (see the tract list)
HOAPalos Verdes Homes Association (deed restrictions and Art Jury); also the volunteer Lunada Bay Homeowners Association
GatesNot gated
School districtPalos Verdes Peninsula Unified (schools by address)
Tract with its own guide (tap for the link) Other recorded tracts

Outlines are recorded tract maps from Los Angeles County Public Works; they show how land was subdivided, not HOA or city boundaries.

The neighborhood

Living in Lunada Bay

The early plans were grand. The Project meant Lunada Bay Plaza to be the largest of its business districts, with a theater, a post office, a community building and stores, and a sales booklet from about 1926 pictured a yacht club and harbor, a swimming cove and an English-style town site called Margate Plaza. A nursery opened at Lunada Bay in 1923 to grow trees and shrubs for the new community, and in 1927 Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. drew up a "pleasure basin" for bathing and boating in the bay. Neither the harbor nor the pool was built. Los Angeles County turned down a 1938 offer to take the bayfront as a park in place of back taxes, and the city's incorporation in December 1939 kept it as parkland. A 1959 marina plan ended when residents voted 78 to 76 against it in a postcard survey the City Council requested, and in 1969 the city made Lunada Bay part of its Shoreline Preserve.

Most of the district's homes, about 2,390 in all, went up after World War II. Many longtime residents still call the northern end Margate, after the seaside town in Kent, England. The name survives in Margate Road, Margate Square and the Margate Parkway open space, and English street names such as Chelsea, Addison, Dalton and Cloyden run through that end. Lunada Bay Plaza, at Palos Verdes Drive West and Yarmouth Road, is still the neighborhood's hub for summer concerts and festivals, and the Snelgrove Memorial Fountain stands in the median nearby. The volunteer Lunada Bay Homeowners Association holds events in Lunada Bay Park. Working with the city and the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, it also replanted about two acres of oceanfront parkland with native plants and walking paths. As everywhere in Palos Verdes Estates, the Palos Verdes Homes Association and its Art Jury review changes to homes under deed restrictions recorded in 1923.

Inside the neighborhood

Tracts & subdivisions of Lunada Bay

Recorded tracts with a guide of their own: builder and year where known, streets, lots, schools by address and the recorded map.

Casa de Lunada built 1975 · 12 homes · Tract 23249, 1975Palos Verdes Dr WLunada Terrace built 1973 · 18 homes · Tract 28349, 1973Palos Verdes Dr WRocky Point Estates built 1955–2007 · 73 homes · Tract 17606, 1954Rocky Point Rd, Paseo Del Mar, Rocky Point PlTract 6781 built 1951–1991 · 21 homes · recorded 1924Addison Rd, Margate Rd, Chelsea RdTract 6888 built 1951–1996 · 273 homes · recorded 1924Chelsea Rd, Via Pacheco, Via AnacapaTract 6889 built 1954–1978 · 295 homes · recorded 1924Espinosa Cir, Via Coronel, Via BoronadaTract 6890 built 1970–1982 · 204 homes · recorded 1924Via Olivera, Via Zumaya, Via ValdezTract 7140 built 1952–1988 · 239 homes · recorded 1924Chelsea Rd, Paseo Del Mar, Dalton RdTract 7141 built 1953–1972 · 136 homes · recorded 1924Via Rivera, Via Carrillo, Palos Verdes Dr WTract 7144 built 1963–1993 · 175 homes · recorded 1924Via Pacheco, Via Alvarado, Paseo Del MarTract 7331 built 1948–2000 · 130 homes · recorded 1924Paseo Del Mar, Via Pacheco, Chelsea RdTract 7332 built 1956–1990 · 107 homes · recorded 1924Via Victoria, Via Rivera, Palos Verdes Dr WTract 7334 built 1981–2002 · 77 homes · recorded 1928Via Fernandez, Via Lopez, Via ZuritaTract 7536 built 1949–2007 · 25 homes · recorded 1924Palos Verdes Dr W, Paseo Del MarTract 7537 built 1967–1979 · 31 homes · recorded 1924Via Coronel, Via Estudillo, Via DescansoTract 16054 built 1957–1962 · 45 homes · recorded 1956Via Palestra, Via Romero, Via VentanaTract 16945 built 1954–1957 · 140 homes · recorded 1953Palos Verdes Dr W, Via Rivera, Via De La GuerraTract 27438 built 1978–1992 · 102 homes · recorded 1976Via Castilla, Via Zumaya, Via BarcelonaTract 30905 built 1976–1987 · 87 homes · recorded 1974Via Coronel, Via Davalos, Noya Pl

Other recorded maps and land

MapRecordedHomesBuiltStreets
Tract 40175August 27, 1981181981Palos Verdes Dr W
Tract 23062May 21, 1958161966–1981Via Segovia, Paseo Del Mar
Tract 17714November 30, 1956161958–1961Via Olivera, Via Estudillo
Tract 30910September 29, 1975161976–1987Via Leon
Tract 23522November 19, 1957141959–1976Via Fortuna, Via Romero
Tract 27458September 4, 1963121964–1976Rivera Pl, Via Rivera, Via Victoria
Tract 11620September 22, 1938111951–2005Palos Verdes Dr W
Tract 32253July 13, 1979111984–2004Via Victoria, Via Miguel
Tract 13678February 27, 1957101957–1975Paseo Lunado, Via Anacapa, Chelsea Rd, Via Estrada
Tract 32414July 30, 197691976Palos Verdes Dr W
Tract 35110December 5, 197991979Via Carrillo
Tract 29690November 19, 197381963Palos Verdes Dr W
Tract 31838May 2, 197481974Palos Verdes Dr W
Tract 23201December 14, 196471965–2007Via Oleadas, Paseo Del Mar
Tract 30393December 31, 197371977–1991Via Victoria
Tract 26526January 30, 196771967–2002Via Buena, Via Rivera
Tract 25692July 20, 196751969–2002Rico Pl
Tract 7086November 10, 193141991–2007Paseo Del Mar, Avenue Mirola
Tract 19787July 16, 195841967–2016Paseo Del Mar
Tract 30068December 31, 197341976–2003Via Landeta, Via Coronel
Tract 4400July 25, 192321976Palos Verdes Dr W, Via Pacheco

Covered on this page: recorded tracts without a guide of their own, lot splits, rental buildings and land laid out by survey.

Missing a tract or a name residents use? Tell us.

Schools

Schools for Lunada Bay

Schools guide →

Schools by address

For 1 address here the locator returns no answer; the school shown for it is the one the neighboring addresses get.

From PVPUSD's School Locator answers for every county address, checked October 3, 2026, counted by home. A locator answer is the district's home-school assignment, not a placement guarantee. Look up an address · PVPUSD School Locator

Every address here was checked against PVPUSD's own School Locator. Elementary and intermediate schools follow your home address; there is no high-school boundary, so families choose between the district's two high schools.

Confirm an assignment with the PVPUSD Enrollment Center before relying on it.

Streets

Streets in Lunada Bay

  • Addison Rd 44
  • Apsley Rd 3
  • Avenue Mirola 22
  • Avon Rd 1
  • Chelsea Rd 134
  • Chiswick Rd 4
  • Cloyden Rd 21
  • Dalton Rd 45
  • Dolores Plaza 1
  • Epping Rd 5
  • Espinosa Cir 58
  • La Costa Pl 8
  • Lunada Bay Plaza 4
  • Margate Rd 12
  • Margate Sq 9
  • Muros Pl 2
  • Noya Pl 4
  • Oakley Rd 1
  • Palos Verdes Dr W 333
  • Paseo Del Mar 143
  • Paseo Lunado 24
  • Plaza Francisco 3
  • Rico Pl 9
  • Rivera Pl 7
  • Rocky Point Pl 5
  • Rocky Point Rd 56
  • Thorley Pl 30
  • Tyburn Rd 12
  • Via Alvarado 37
  • Via Amador 10
  • Via Anacapa 60
  • Via Andres 8
  • Via Asturias 10
  • Via Bandini 5
  • Via Barcelona 14
  • Via Barri 7
  • Via Borica 13
  • Via Boronada 35
  • Via Buena 19
  • Via Carrillo 76
  • Via Castilla 35
  • Via Coronel 133
  • Via Curva 9
  • Via Davalos 12
  • Via De La Guerra 23
  • Via Descanso 7
  • Via Estrada 8
  • Via Estudillo 50
  • Via Fernandez 23
  • Via Fortuna 10
  • Via Galicia 9
  • Via Garfias 10
  • Via Goleta 6
  • Via Landeta 32
  • Via Leon 16
  • Via Lopez 19
  • Via Machado 16
  • Via Margate 4
  • Via Martinez 8
  • Via Miguel 5
  • Via Mirola 5
  • Via Neve 12
  • Via Oleadas 5
  • Via Olivera 73
  • Via Pacheco 112
  • Via Palestra 12
  • Via Pena 4
  • Via Rivera 110
  • Via Romero 50
  • Via Sanchez 27
  • Via Segovia 13
  • Via Sola 4
  • Via Valdez 32
  • Via Ventana 9
  • Via Victoria 45
  • Via Zumaya 77
  • Via Zurita 41
  • Yarmouth Rd 26
  • Zorillo Pl 2

Homes per street from county assessor records. Counts include only the homes inside this neighborhood.

Nearby

Other neighborhoods in Palos Verdes Estates

Palos Verdes Estates guide →

Every neighborhood and tract on the Peninsula, A–Z →

Homes

Homes for sale near Lunada Bay

Peninsula market →

Current listings, with photos, prices and details, are on Properkey. Browse homes for sale in Palos Verdes Estates.

Real estate information provided by Properkey (CA DRE #01979718), which is not the listing broker unless stated. Equal Housing Opportunity.

Sources

Where these facts come from

  1. City of Palos Verdes Estates GIS, Administrative Boundaries FeatureServer layer 6 'City Zones' — utility.arcgis.com
  2. Palos Verdes Estates: Your home in Palos Verdes Estates (Palos Verdes Project, c.1923), PVLD via Calisphere — calisphere.org
  3. Lunada Bay Homeowners Association website — lbhoa.org
  4. Palos Verdes Estates: Prominent among the world's famous residential communities (Palos Verdes Project, c.1926), PVLD via Calisphere — calisphere.org
  5. City of Palos Verdes Estates, Doors Open Peninsula – Sites in PVE (2023) — pvestates.org
  6. Palos Verdes Magazine, '100 Years Of Palos Verdes Real Estate' (July 16, 2023); also Megowan Realty, 'Lunada Bay Nursery' — palosverdesmagazine.com
  7. PVLD Local History, 'The Lunada Bay We Never Knew' (PV News, January 31, 2013) — pvld.org
  8. Palos Verdes Magazine, 'From Malaga to Margate: The Story Behind Naming Palos Verdes Estates' Neighborhoods' (June 10, 2025) — palosverdesmagazine.com
  9. City of Palos Verdes Estates, 'What Makes PVE Unique?' (city history); PVHA FAQ — pvestates.org
  10. Los Angeles County Assessor: parcel data (2026 roll): homes, year built, living area and lot size — public.gis.lacounty.gov
  11. Los Angeles County Public Works: Land Records, recorded tract maps — dpw.lacounty.gov
  12. PVPUSD School Locator — pvpusd.net

Something wrong or missing on this page? Residents know their streets best. Send a correction and we'll check it against the records.