La Jolla · Coastal San Diego
\nMarlowe Estates represents La Jolla’s most considered properties — bought and sold with discretion, patience, and a trained architectural eye. Most of our work begins with a quiet referral. All of it ends with a clean closing.
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\nWe carry a deliberately short list. Every property below was walked, priced, and prepared by Vivienne personally — no teams, no hand-offs.
\n\n$8,900,000
\n \nOceanfront contemporary above the Cove. Sight lines to the water from every principal room; the kind of quiet engineering you only notice when the swell comes up.
\n$4,750,000
\n \nFlat-walk to the Shores beach. A 1962 post-and-beam, restored rather than remodeled — original mahogany ceilings, new everything else. Eleven days on market.
\n$3,295,000
\n \nSingle-level on the quiet side of Calumet, two blocks off the bluff. Walled courtyard entry, west-facing great room, and a kitchen that was clearly designed by someone who cooks.
\n$2,495,000
\n \nA village cottage five minutes’ walk from Fifteenth Street beach. Small on paper, generous in person — vaulted ceilings, ocean glimpse from the deck, room to grow on a 7,200 sq ft lot.
\n$214M
\nClosed volume
\n96
\nHomes represented
\n14
\nYears on this coast
\nAbout
\nBefore real estate, Vivienne spent five years at a San Diego architecture firm drawing coastal residences — which is to say, five years learning to read a house’s bones before reading its listing copy. She still walks every property with a flashlight and a level. It has saved her clients from more than one beautiful mistake.
\nFourteen years and ninety-six closings later, her practice covers La Jolla, Bird Rock, and Del Mar, with most engagements arriving by referral and a meaningful share of them never reaching the open market. She works alone, by design: the person who answers the phone is the person who negotiates your contract.
\nHer philosophy fits in a sentence. A home is the longest conversation you will ever have with a building — so be honest about value going in, patient about timing, and unsentimental about everything except the light.
\nVivienne Marlowe · California DRE #02114873
\nSelected sales
\nNinety-six closings don’t fit on a page, and a brag sheet would be against the house style. These are representative.
\nSale records 2012–2026. Addresses shared with past clients’ permission.
\nNeighborhoods
\nFlat, walkable beach blocks where homes trade near a $4.2M median — and rarely more than a dozen are on the market at once.
\nA low-key surf village with serious demand — remodeled cottages start near $2.8M and seldom last a second weekend.
\nBluff-top village living around a $3.6M median; inventory runs tightest in summer, when half the buyers arrive by racetrack.
\nNotes on the market
\nSpring 2026
\nRoughly a third of our recent closings never appeared on the open market. Sellers value the privacy; buyers value the first look. If you’re only watching the portals, you’re seeing part of the coast.
\nWinter 2026
\nOn this stretch of coast, buyers pay for light, indoor-outdoor flow, and honest materials — not for a third powder room. Before you renovate to sell, ask which category your project falls into.
\nAutumn 2025
\nWith so few homes trading, averages mislead. A well-prepared house still moves in under two weeks; an aspirationally priced one sits for a quarter. The difference is rarely the house. It’s the first number.
\nHow we work
\n01
\nA private consultation — at the property or over coffee. We talk about timing, candor on value, and what you actually need, which is rarely what the market is shouting about.
\n02
\nPricing built from comparable evidence, preparation that respects the architecture, and photography that doesn’t lie. Quiet outreach to qualified buyers begins before the sign goes up — if a sign goes up at all.
\n03
\nNegotiation handled personally, contingencies managed daily, and an escrow that ends on the date it was supposed to. You will never wonder what’s happening with your own sale.
\n\n\n“The right buyer doesn’t need convincing. They need finding.”
\n Vivienne Marlowe\n
Contact
\nWhether you’re selling a family home or quietly looking for the next one, the first step is the same: a conversation, in confidence, with no obligation attached.
\nTelephone
\n (858) 412-7740\nOffice
\n1150 Prospect Street, Suite 210
La Jolla, California 92037