Water and sewer both run along the street line at this lot, and the road in front of it is paved - most of what makes a build expensive to start is already at the edge of the property. The ground is flat, an 80-by-126-foot rectangle of about 10,111 square feet, zoned residential for one home.
The lot sits on the west side of Highway 86 in Salton City, in a gridded section of streets where homes are already scattered a little ways down the road. The land around it is open desert, sandy and low, with mountains standing off beautifully in the distance.
Salton City grew up next to the Salton Sea, the large shallow lake the Colorado River created by accident in the early 1900s. The area still pulls around 200,000 visitors a year - birders working the Sonny Bono refuge as migratory flocks pass through, off-road riders, photographers, and people drawn to the local desert art. Imperial County keeps the annual tax low and the zoning simple.
