California RE is ridiculous. I have a friend who lives in a good area, not on the coast, not super upscale like La Jolla. Housing prices in her neighborhood are high mostly because they have good schools. Her tract home which is maybe 2,0000 SF is worth close to a million dollars. No large lot or anything. Just a nice tract home. Crazy.Who would pay $2.6m for a house where you step out your front door and literally walk straight onto the road?!
Could no one afford to put a litle fence between the road and the house?
Apart from that, the house is ugly.
Are those old pics before she bought it? It really doesn't look like her style at all.