January 3, 2026 | Saturday Morning Spotlight | Emerald Bay Market Update

Emerald Bay | Season 2026 Premiere

Previously on… Emerald Bay

Cue the recap montage.

Moody coastline shots.

Long shadows.

Price reductions scrolling across the screen like end credits no one wanted to read.

Season 2025 will be remembered as the year Emerald Bay learned—on camera—that the market does not care about feelings, legacy pricing, or what a property should be worth.

Let’s revisit the receipts.

Emerald Bay | Season 2025 Final Numbers

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Total Properties Sold: 9

Average Days on Market: 159

Average Discount from List to Sale: 25.85% 😬

And then there was the episode that broke the fourth wall entirely:

70 Emerald Bay. 318 days on the market. Three price chops. A final 45.27% haircut from the original list price.

That wasn’t a negotiation. That was gravity doing its job.

Season 2025 was the year:

Ambition met reality

“Testing the market” became an expensive hobby

Pricing fantasies got fact-checked

And hope finally admitted it was not a strategy

No chaos.

No shock finale.

Just one off-market property in escrow, a two foot gimme putt with everyone waiting breathlessly to see if would be a shank and a tragic loss!!

Fade to black. Roll credits.

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Emerald Bay | Season 2026

The Premiere Episode

New season. New lighting. Same coastline—but someone finally read the script.

The opening scene delivers something we haven't witnessed in what feels like geological time:

Actual momentum!

704 Emerald Bay is in escrow and set to close—sold off-market.

No public price hemorrhaging. No 200+ day market hangover. No becoming the cautionary tale whispered about at cocktail parties.

Just sharp pricing, strategic positioning, and a Compass Private Exclusive launch that treated the listing like the premium asset it actually was.

This is what happens when you:

Price it properly from the jump (not after three axe chopping reductions)

Market strategically through a curated agent network that doesn't require a public audition

Control the narrative instead of letting the market write your obituary in real time

The result?

It. Actually. Sells!

Quietly. Efficiently. Without becoming a Reddit thread or a therapy session.

The Plot Twist Nobody Saw Coming

Season 2026 is already rewriting the rulebook with its opening act.

The market didn't get easier—it got smarter.

Buyers are still here. Money is still moving. But the tolerance for theatrical overpricing and wishful thinking?

Gone.

Vanished like Season 2025's credibility.

The new rules are brutally simple:

Price it right or prepare for a very long, very public education

Control your launch or watch the market control your reputation

Market with precision or become the case study nobody wants to be

704 Emerald Bay just proved it: when you respect the market, the market returns the favor.

Coming Up This Season…

Will more sellers finally accept that pricing is chess, not therapy?

Will off-market strategies continue exposing public listings as the slow-motion train wrecks they've become?

Will Emerald Bay reward discipline after a year of expensive lessons?

Stay tuned.

The cameras are rolling.

And this season?

Pricing isn't just everything—it's the only thing. 🍾🥇

Emerald Bay | Season 2026 Now streaming. No commercials. All receipts.

For Sale

307 Emerald Bay | $7,495,000 | 675 DOM

32 Emerald Bay | $9,250,000⬇️⬇️ | 292 DOM

928 Emerald Bay | $10,500,000 | 171 DOM

64 Emerald Bay | $13,500,000⬇️ | 236 DOM

74 Emerald Bay | $17,995,000⬇️ | 291 DOM

*145 Emerald Bay | $24,995,000⬇️⬇️ | 93 DOM

In Escrow

*704 Emerald Bay | Off Market 

Seller Represented by Emerald Bay | Harold Noriega

Sold 2025

312 Emerald Bay | $4,800,000⬇️⬇️⬇️ | 200 DOM

13 Emerald Bay | $5,995,000⬇️⬇️⬇️ | 111 DOM

**300 Emerald Bay | Sale Price $6,300,000⬇️ | 28 DOM

*349 Emerald Bay | $6,535,000⬇️ | 152 DOM

**328 Emerald Bay | Sale Price $8,250,000⬇️ | 313 DOM

510 Emerald Bay | Sale Price $9,162,500⬇️ | 199 DOM

523 Emerald Bay | $12,750,000⬇️ | 199 DOM

1115 Emerald Bay | $15,000.000⬇️⬇️ | 109 DOM

70 Emerald Bay | $15,050,000⬇️ | 318 DOM 

* Emerald Bay Properties Listed and Represented by

Emerald Bay | Harold Noriega

** Buyers Represented by

Emerald Bay | Harold Noriega

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