1.3 Acres Above Trump National, Sold With Approved Plans

The property

Buildable land with a view is the rarest thing on the Peninsula. This lot sits high enough above the golf course to look straight out at Catalina and along the coastline, close enough to the water to feel it, and it came with plans already approved for a custom home. In Rancho Palos Verdes that approval is often the hardest part of a build, so the plans were worth real money on their own. A small HOA covers the tract.

The plan

Land does not photograph like a house. Buyers have to be shown the view from where the living room will be, and they have to believe the plans. So the marketing led with an aerial film, Land over Trump National Golf Club, that flew the building pad and turned toward Catalina, and the approved plans were put front and center rather than mentioned in passing. The buyer pool for a lot like this is builders and custom home buyers, and everything was written for them: the numbers, the setbacks, the time saved.

• An aerial film shot from the pad height so the view read as the finished house's view.
• The approved plans and the entitlement timeline as the headline, not a footnote.
• Copy written for builders and custom buyers rather than for a family shopping for a house.

The questions buyers asked

Every serious buyer on Palos Verdes Drive South asks about the land movement at Portuguese Bend, and they should. The answer here was the same one I give on every property on this corridor: pull the city's landslide moratorium map for the exact parcel, read the land movement updates, and get a geotechnical report. Buyers who did that work were able to move forward with confidence, and the one who closed did.

The result

The lot closed at $1,980,000 in March 2026, about $1.5 million per acre, with the plans transferring to the buyer. For anyone weighing land on the Peninsula, the guide to buying land in Palos Verdes on this site covers what to know before you build.