2930 Neilson Way 408

SEA COLONY II | 2930 Neilson Way #408, Santa Monica. Anyone who's spent time looking on this side of Santa Monica knows how rare the real thing is. Plenty of listings promise the beach and deliver four blocks and a busy street. The ocean view that only works if you lean off the balcony. The location that's genuinely on the sand but hasn't been updated in thirty years. What almost never comes along is all of it at once, the position, the condition, and the address. This is that. You come through the gate at Sea Colony II and the ocean is simply there, in front of you, not down the road. Two minutes on foot and you're on the sand. That's the difference here, and it's the one that can't be renovated in or negotiated for later. You don't live near this beach. You live on it. Mornings are the path before the crowds, coffee, then Main Street for the farmers market and dinner wherever you land. Venice and Abbot Kinney sit just south, the pier's an easy walk up the strand, and home is always quiet and private behind a 24-hour guarded gate. The residence has been fully remodeled, finished with care and ready to simply move into. Two bedrooms, two baths, 1,456 square feet that live larger than the number, as this is the largest second-bedroom floor plan in the complex. Top floor, full of light. And two side-by-side parking spaces, which at this beach is its own kind of luxury. The community carries the rest. A pool heated around the clock, three spas, a rec room, tennis, and a gym two minutes downstairs, all held behind the gate and genuinely well kept. This is resort living that happens to be your home. Residences at Sea Colony II rarely come to market, and one remodeled to this standard is rarer still. For the buyer who has been waiting to own the Santa Monica beach life rather than visit it, this is the one worth showing up for. Shown by appointment.