Villas and Casitas at Terranea

Details

• The villas and casitas are privately owned condominium units on the grounds of Terranea Resort, on the Long Point property, the former Marineland site at 6610 Palos Verdes Drive South.City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• City conditions allow up to 32 single keyed resort villas and up to 50 casitas, each with up to three keys, to be sold to individual persons or private entities.City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• A casita owner may use the unit up to 60 days a calendar year and a villa owner up to 90 days. No owner stay may run longer than 29 days in a row, and at least 7 days must pass between each 29 day period of owner use.City of Rancho Palos Verdes [2]
• When owners are not using them, the units must be available as hotel rooms fully managed by the resort hotel operator. Deed restrictions with these limits had to be recorded before any unit was sold.City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• The resort's parcel map was to create four parcels: the resort hotel parcel, the west casita parcel, the east casita parcel and the villa parcel. A recorded covenant must require all of these parcels to be fully managed by the resort hotel operator.City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• The villas are buildings 10 to 19. The western casitas are buildings 20 to 28 and the eastern casitas are buildings 30 to 33.City of Rancho Palos Verdes; MLS listing
• The county roll lists 36 condominium units on lot 2 (buildings 20 to 28), 14 on lot 3 (buildings 30 to 33) and 32 on lot 4 (buildings 10 to 19) of Parcel Map 26073, all built in 2008 and classed as hotel and motel condominiums. Lot 1 holds the hotel and the golf course.LA County Public Works land records; LA County Assessor roll, 2026
• On the county roll the villas have two to four bedrooms and 1,940 to 2,870 square feet. Each casita is listed with three bedrooms and 2,080 to 2,100 square feet.LA County Assessor roll, 2026
• Parcel Map 26073 covers about 102 acres and was recorded on August 7, 2008.LA County Public Works land records; terranea.com
• The City Council approved the resort on August 28, 2002, and that approval already let the villas and casitas be sold. In 2003 the Coastal Commission denied an appeal and approved the project with special conditions. Terranea opened on June 12, 2009.City of Rancho Palos Verdes [2]
• Long Point Development LLC was the applicant for the resort in 2008. Lowe Enterprises became involved in the project in 1998.City of Rancho Palos Verdes; terranea.com
• City conditions bar entry gates on the resort.City of Rancho Palos Verdes
• A 2025 listing for casita 24-201 describes it as fee simple real estate with a grant deed, and says Coastal Commission conditions mean it is not a primary residence.MLS listing
• Terranea Real Estate, the resort's real estate office, represents buyers and sellers of homes at Terranea and elsewhere on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The resort's real estate page says only five villas are currently on the market, and the office's own site takes names for a waitlist for the next available casita or villa.MLS listing; terranea.com

Amenities

• Owners get a 24 hour owners concierge, priority dining reservations and spa privileges
• The resort's pools, spa, fitness center and 9 hole golf course; city conditions call for one pool for the west casitas and one for the resort villas
• Listings for a villa and a casita name a community pool, conference facilities, a golf course, a gym and a picnic area as complex amenities. The casita listing also names a clubhouse.

More information

• Owning at Terranea (resort page)
• City of Rancho Palos Verdes: Terranea project page
• City conditions of approval, with owner use limits
• Terranea villas (resort page)
• Terranea casitas (resort page)

Sources

• City of Rancho Palos Verdes: Terranea project page
• City of Rancho Palos Verdes, City conditions of approval, with owner use limits
• City of Rancho Palos Verdes, document 1
• LA County Public Works land records
• terranea.com
• City of Rancho Palos Verdes, document 2
• Owning at Terranea (resort page)

Some details also come from MLS listings or local agents' guides, which are named but not linked here.