The Foghorn, the Fields,
and One Family’s Dream
There’s something about the Coastside that never really leaves you — the cool ocean air rolling across the Mavericks bluffs at dawn, the deep boom of the Pillar Point foghorn on a grey winter morning, the way the entire town still somehow runs into each other at New Leaf. For our family, it has always simply felt like home.
I grew up here. Graduated from Half Moon Bay High School. Played Coastside Little League and Pop Warner football — and now, years later, I have the privilege of coaching those same youth sports, watching another generation of Coastside children fall in love with this place the same way I did.
“My grandfather Phil got his very first lot from the back of a movie ticket stub. The dream of building on this coast has never left our family.”
Our family’s connection to this coast goes back generations. My grandfather, Phil, built many of the stucco homes you’ll recognize throughout the Coastside. He went to a Sunday movie matinee in the Bay Area, and on the back of the ticket stub was an offer: a free lot, if you paid the permits within six months. He did. If you own an older stucco home on the Coastside, there’s a real chance his hands helped build it.
The Seaton family — Coastside roots going back generations.
Today, my wife Jenny and I are searching for a vacant residential lot to build our forever home for our boys, Matteo (11) and Noah (6). We want them to hear that foghorn on winter mornings, ride their bikes on these back roads, and know — deep in their bones — that this coast is home.
We are not investors. We are not flipping anything. We are simply a local family with one straightforward dream — reaching out directly, neighbor to neighbor, in hopes that you might be willing to have a conversation.
We’re looking for vacant residential lots in Half Moon Bay, El Granada, Moss Beach, and Montara — ideally 4,500–18,000 sq ft, though we’re open to larger or unique opportunities. Complexity is welcome: Coastal approvals, water questions, expired plans — none of that concerns us.
— David, Jenny, Matteo & Noah Seaton · Half Moon Bay, California