A low limestone and glass house on a coastal bluff at dusk, its rooms lit warm behind a long pool, the sea and a dark headland beyond.

The Calloway CoastAutumn 2026

Houses that are hard to leave.

Verelle represents a small number of exceptional homes each year, on the coast, in the valley and above the harbor, and the people who will love them next.

Now offering The Bluff House, Sorrel Point

A note from Celeste

I take on a handful of homes a year, so each one can be photographed in the right light, written about properly and shown only to people who are genuinely ready. Some are listed publicly. Others change hands quietly, by introduction, when the owners prefer it.

CelestePrincipal, Verelle Private Real Estate

The portfolio

Three homes, this season

The pool terrace at dusk, looking south over the point.

No. 01 · Sorrel Point

The Bluff House

Limestone, cedar and a long blade of water, set into the grass two hundred feet above the sea.

Built for a family who spent twenty summers on the point, the house is one long room of glass facing south, with the bedrooms tucked into the hill behind it. The architects kept the roof low enough that, from the coast path, it disappears.

In the morning the light comes across the pool and onto the living room ceiling; in the evening you watch the ferry lights cross to the headland. The cedar is left to silver. The grasses are the ones that were here before.

“From the coast path, it disappears.”
The drive in early October, before the mist lifts.

No. 02 · The Arbre Valley

Lavender Hill Farm

A restored stone farmhouse, an olive grove and eighteen acres of quiet at the top of the valley road.

The house was a working farm for most of its life; the current owners spent six years restoring it stone by stone, with lime plaster inside, the original beams and a kitchen built around the old bread oven.

The guest cottage sleeps four. The olives are pressed in the village each November, and the lavender is cut in July by the same family who has cut it for years.

No. 03 · Port Halloran

The Harbor Penthouse

The top floor of the old customs house, with the whole harbor in its windows.

Three bedrooms, a library and a living room that wraps two corners of the building, finished in travertine and walnut. The terrace looks across the moorings to the islands; at night the town lights double in the water.

Concierge, two parking spaces and a private elevator. The fish market, the theater and the morning ferry are a five-minute walk downhill.

The living room at blue hour.

Some of the homes Celeste represents are offered privately, by introduction only.

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Market notes · Autumn 2026

What we're seeing, in plain words

Impressions from this season's showings and conversations, not forecasts. For numbers about a particular home, ask; we'll show our sources.

Quiet sales are back on the point

More owners on Sorrel Point have asked this year to sell privately rather than list, and more buyers have asked to be told first. It suits homes where privacy is half the appeal.

Buyers are spending longer on the details: how the house sits in the wind, how the roads are in February, what the insurance conversation looks like. We encourage it, and bring the answers to the first showing.

— Celeste, after a season of Saturday showings

Approach

Fewer homes, more care

  1. I

    Discretion

    Your home is shown to people who are ready, at times that suit you. Nothing is published without your approval, and private sales stay private.

  2. II

    Presentation

    Photographs taken at the right hour of the right season, a film when it helps, and words that describe the house as the people who live there would.

  3. III

    Evidence, not adjectives

    A suggested price comes with the sales it is based on and the reasoning in between. You decide; we show our work.

  4. IV

    A calm negotiation

    Every offer explained in writing, the terms that matter besides price set out side by side, and a steady hand to closing.

By introduction

How a private sale works

Some owners would rather their home never appeared online. A private sale takes a little longer to arrange and asks more of the people who see it; for the right house, it is worth it.

  1. 01

    A quiet brochure

    Photographs and a written portrait of the house, printed and numbered, shared only by hand or by a private link that expires.

  2. 02

    A short list of people

    Buyers already known to Celeste, and their agents, who have shown they are ready. Each one is named to you before they visit.

  3. 03

    Visits on your terms

    One visit at a time, when you choose, with Celeste there. Nothing about the house is published without your written approval.

  4. 04

    If it doesn't happen quietly

    After the period you agree, you decide whether to keep waiting or to offer the home publicly, with everything already prepared.

Where Verelle works

Private consultation

Begin with a conversation

Whether you are thinking of selling, looking for something that may never be listed, or simply curious about one of the homes above, Celeste will reply personally, usually within a day.

By appointment
14 Quay Street, Port Halloran

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