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Closed since 1998
Established 1998 · Fourth generation
The houses that
rarely change hands.
Ashgrove & Co. represents the estates of old Pasadena — the ones sold twice in a century, usually to someone the family already knew.
PasadenaSan MarinoLa Cañada FlintridgeSierra MadreDRE 01100244
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The record
Twenty-seven years, counted honestly.
Every figure below is closed business, verified against the county recorder. Nothing is annualised, projected or shared with a team we merely belong to.
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Estates represented
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Median days to contract
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Of asking, ten-year average
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Offices, one valley
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Repeat or referred
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Search everything for sale
Exclusive representation
The portfolio
For sale$8,750,000
1180 Hillcrest Avenue
Oak Knoll, Pasadena
7 bd9 ba11,400 sf1.8 ac
For sale$6,395,000
2040 Lombardy Road
San Marino
6 bd7 ba8,900 sf1.2 ac
PrivateUpon request
Chester Place
La Cañada Flintridge
8 bd11 ba14,200 sf
$3,150,000
614 Prospect Boulevard
Prospect Park, Pasadena
5 bd5 ba4,600 sf
Just sold$4,825,000
1455 Wentworth Avenue
Sierra Madre
5 bd6 ba6,100 sf
Just sold$5,600,000
890 Rosemont Avenue
Linda Vista, Pasadena
6 bd7 ba7,300 sf
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Every listing, not only ours
Search the valley
Live MLS data on a real site. Here, a sample — the wiring is the same.
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The firm
Four generations on the same eight streets.
My grandfather sold the Hillcrest house in 1961. I sold it again in 2019, to the granddaughter of the family who bought it from him.
That is the whole business, and it is why the firm has never advertised. Estates on these streets change hands perhaps twice in a century, and when they do the sellers are rarely looking for exposure — they are looking for someone who knows which of their neighbours has been waiting for the house.
We take a small number of representations a year. Each one is photographed properly, priced against the county record rather than a portal estimate, and shown by appointment to a list we have kept since 1998. Roughly two-thirds of what we sell never reaches an open house.
1998Founded
612Estates
4Offices
63%Repeat or referred
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In print
Press
The Wall Street JournalArchitectural DigestLos Angeles TimesPasadena Star-NewsRobb Report
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What we do
Four ways in
iSell an estate
Valuation against the county record, photography, a private list, then the market — in that order.
Request a valuation → iiBuy on these streetsIncluding the two-thirds that never reach an open house. That conversation happens by phone, not here.
Start a search → iiiTrust & estate salesExecutors, conservators and family trusts. Court confirmation handled, appraisals coordinated.
Speak to us → ivPreparationRoofers, arborists, seismic retrofit and the one painter who knows these houses. We front approved costs.
See the list →VIII
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Clients
In their words
She told us the house was worth less than the estimate we had been carrying around for a decade, and then sold it for more than either number.The Merriwether Trust — San Marino, 2025
Four siblings, three states, one house our mother left us. Rosalind ran the whole thing and we are all still speaking.D. Alarcón — Sierra Madre, 2024
We never saw it listed. She rang because she remembered what we said we wanted in 2019.P. & H. Okonjo — Oak Knoll, 2025
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Where to find us
Four offices, one valley
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Begin
Request a valuation
We will tell you what the house is worth against the last comparable sales on your street, and whether now is the moment. If it isn't, we will say so — that answer has cost us more commissions than it has earned.
No obligation, and nothing goes on the market without your signature.