Assuming the hood means Laguna Niguel - so many candidates behind the gates are competitors.
We have these grotesque hideousnesses:
These packed puppies have awesome views:
But not as awesome of the forever views of the coast staring down the beach from the hill all the way to Dana Pointe and beyond, of these even more tightly packed packages, one of which a friend of mine lives in, with an interior after he dumped about a million into it, that runs laps around the exterior (his is worth about 5-6 million maybe):
And then there are these elongated weirdies, also sporting a sweep of the blue mer below from the top of the hill:
But my favorite, beyond what is the most expensive (and this one might be), is this double lot job, looking down a steep canyon to the ocean below. The smaller building is the garage, with a chauffeur's quarters above:
I once saw the owner of this pad through the window, exquisitely dressed, and well preserved (facelifts?), playing the grand piano in her manse - a vision straight from a movie scene, maybe portending something ominous to come, ala a Hitchcock movie.
But come to think of it, the house that gets the gold may well be below. I mean, yes, the views are limited, but they
do have square feet, affording the soothing option, that if you have to live with rug rats under the same roof, at least one can do so without having to interact with them very often - or something:
And then we have
my little shack. No, it is not a candidate!
