1635 East Ocean, D2

#2D is the only one here that opens — really opens — directly onto this outdoor space, and it rearranges the entire logic of the home. Push the doors back and the living room stops having a wall. Coffee migrates outside. Dinner follows. So does the long part of the evening: oversized chairs, too many candles, plants… you keep buying, something cold sweating in your hand, and everyone staying an hour past when they said they’d go. There’s also the small matter of actual room. While most coastal condos ask you to play competitive furniture Tetris, this one hands you 1,422 honest square feet. Bring the big sofa. Host the dinner party. Work from home without working from your bed. The hardwood brings the warmth. The patio brings the fun. And the deeply unromantic, deeply expensive items have already been handled — plumbing approximately five years young, water heater brand new. Then there’s the HOA. $381 a month. Electricity, sewer and trash. In Southern California, a beachside condo with dues under $400 is already a conversation. Plot twist... it also has it's own stackable washer & dryer But the real luxury here may be what happens the moment you step outside the front door. This is Long Beach. Not a master-planned impression of coastal living. The ocean is right there. Bixby Park and the farmers market quietly become routine. Point a beach cruiser down the shoreline and disappear for an afternoon. Drift toward Broadway for dinner, or up to Retro Row for vintage, records, coffee, cocktails, independent kitchens and the Art Theatre. Head the other way and Belmont Shore unfolds block after block of restaurants, boutiques and patios made for lingering. Downtown, the waterfront, the museums, the nightlife, the Queen Mary, Naples, and everything wonderfully weird and creative and independently Long Beach — all within easy reach. This is a neighborhood with a personality, not a palette. It isn’t the highest floor. It doesn’t need to be. It’s the one with the doors open. The one with the outdoor space nobody else in the building has. The one where 1,422 square feet lives even larger, because part of your life happens outside. The one close enough to the Pacific that “going for a walk” has a habit of turning into dinner and drinks. There are plenty of condos in Long Beach. Plenty of them near the water. There is only one #2D. And something tells us you’re going to want those doors open. Read More