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the first day for the full asking price.
Jon, who says he and his wife have been through “at least three of the
local real-estate cycles in the twenty-five-plus years that we’ve been prac-
ticing here,” guesses that among older buyers there’s going to be a shift in
demand “to smaller but extremely high-quality homes… I’m not saying it’s
the end of the era of the grand estates,” he adds, noting that his team is
“working on a twenty-million-plus-dollar project right now and a couple of
others in the five- to ten-million-dollar range,” but says there is more action
at the lower end; he has consequently directed his attention there.
The three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath home the Sorrells re-habbed
now has all the style and elegance of a much larger home, with little of the
maintenance. This home has since received recognition as recipient of a
2011 Montecito Association Beautification Award.
Particulars:
Inside: Three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths. Secondary bedrooms
were given French doors to access the side yard; originally there were
just chest-high aluminum sliding windows. The entire house has been
Although situated in the heart of Montecito in an appealingly
quiet neighborhood, this nondescript flat-topped “modern”
home lacked curb appeal…
…Until Jon and Mary Lou Sorrell went to work, adding French
blue shutters to new/old wood casement windows, a gravel
path, new landscaping, a stone façade, barrel-tiled roof, cop-
per gutters, antique gate, and (not quite seen) two fifty-year-
old olive trees street-side
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