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219.41 acres South Livermore Valley AVA Listed $6.9M · ↓29% in 3 yrs

The Greenville Ranch

5625 Greenville Road · Livermore, CA 94550  ·  APN 099A-2400-021  ·  "Del Arroyo Vineyards"

A trophy Tri-Valley land-and-water asset wearing a vineyard's clothes. This room turns 47 pages of recorded easement, six research dossiers, and the seller's own numbers into one decision surface — what you could build, for how much, on what timeline.

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The reframe

Two facts that change the whole picture

Before any spreadsheet: the property's own behavior and its own harvest data quietly rewrite the thesis the listing wants you to believe.

Signal 01 · The market is voting

$9.75M → $6.9M, three years, no sale

The ask has fallen 29% from its 2023 peak and has sat unsold 3+ years across two cycles. $6.9M is the seller's number, not the market's — that's your leverage. The flip side: illiquidity cuts both ways, your exit could be just as slow.

Signal 02 · The vineyard isn't dying

Cabernet just had its best year ever

The 30-ac Cab block hit 130 tons in 2025 — its strongest in six years. The Petite Sirah's collapse to zero is the statewide wine glut (no buyer), not dead vines. You're not buying a failing farm.

The call

If you made me decide today

A real recommendation that names its own kill-switches. Everything below this is the evidence behind it.

Recommendation

How we get to the number
Why
    Decision confidence35%
    What would change this call
    The hard constraint

    A perpetual easement governs everything

    A 2001 conservation easement to the land trust covers 158 of 219 acres — forever. It doesn't kill your vision; it shapes it. Tap a parcel to see what each one actually permits.

    Tentative parcel map
    Seller's 2025 tentative 3-parcel exhibit (unapproved): Parcel 3 = 158 ac eased · Parcels 1 & 2 = 61 ac unencumbered
    How the 219 acres break down
    158 ac eased
    61 ac free
    Conservation easement · no subdivision Unencumbered (development unproven) ~5.5-ac build envelope
    ◆ Permitted — your vision fits
      ◆ Prohibited — in perpetuity
        The single biggest open question. The easement was granted "to mitigate the impacts of development" — meaning it may have already spent the buildable density of the whole holding. Whether Parcels 1 & 2 can ever be built is the #1 item in your diligence checklist. Until a land-use attorney reads the deed, treat that 61 acres of "development upside" as worth $0.
        Everything lives in 5.5 acres

        What actually fits in the envelope

        The easement permits one home, one guest house and a winery — but they all share a single ~5.5-acre building site. Toggle what you'd build and watch the capacity meter. This is the real spatial constraint.

        Envelope master plan
        Envelope used0 / 5.5 ac
        The vineyard, decoded

        One healthy block, one dead market

        The seller's own harvest sheet tells the real story — and it's nothing like "the vineyard is failing."

        Harvest by varietal · tons

        Cabernet rising to a 6-year high while Petite Sirah falls off a cliff
        Cabernet (30 ac) peaked at 130 tons in 2025. Petite Sirah (60 ac) went 137 → 0 — a commodity blender red with no buyer in the worst CA grape glut in 25 years.

        What the grapes are worth · $/ton

        Livermore is a solid mid-tier AVA — a fraction of Napa
        Your Cab clears ~$1,566/ton (Dist 6). The 30 ac ≈ 130 tons ≈ ~$200K gross vs ~$165–180K to farm — i.e. a break-even amenity, not an income engine. The grapes will not pay for the place. Keep the Cab as lifestyle, remove the dead Petite Sirah, don't replant on spec.
        The menu

        What you could do — and what it costs

        Five paths. They stack rather than compete — your most likely fit is a land bank that becomes a family estate with a gentleman's vineyard, and optionally a winery later.

        Stacked, all-in

        Acquisition assumed ~$6.0–6.5M after negotiation.

        ScenarioAcquisition+ CapexAnnual carryTimeAll-in

        Score them by what you value

        Drag the weights to match your priorities — the ranking re-sorts live. There's no objectively best path; there's the best path for you.

        Live financial models

        Run the numbers yourself

        Four interactive models — drag the sliders, toggle the levers, watch the verdict change in real time.

        Independent value range $5.5M–$7.0M · central $6.3M. Ask is $6.9M. The property has fallen 29% over 3 unsold years — anchor low.
        Levers: the recorded easement (kills "4 lots") 3-yr price slide dead Petite Sirah block
        Fair value
        Fair
        vs independent value
        $5.0M steal$6.3M fair$7.0M rich
        Asking price$6,900,000
        Independent central value$6,300,000
        Your offer$6,000,000
        Discount to ask−13%
        $170K
        per year to own it
        Luxury rural custom in the Tri-Valley runs $800–$1,100/sf all-in. Your existing well, tank, septic & power de-risk this ~$200–600K.
        $0
        all-in build cost
        $16.0M
        total capital deployed
        The path to keys

        From offer to certificate of occupancy

        The family-estate path on a realistic clock. Wine moves can run in parallel with little marginal time.

        Acquire Design & entitle Build Wine (optional, parallel)
        What it's actually worth

        Build-up valuation & the comps

        Value the dirt, water, vineyard and buildings from the ground up — then check it against the market.

        Component build-up

        Indicated value range$5.5M – $7.0M

        Verdict on the $6.9M ask

        Fair-to-rich and stale. It sits at the top of the independent range, in the worst CA vineyard market in 25 years, after three unsold years. You're buying dirt + water + amenity + un-built optionality — not vineyard cash flow.

        Reasonable bid: $5.75M – $6.25M

        Price history

        Three years, two listing cycles, no buyer
        CompAcresPrice$/ac
        Comp confidence: low — eased vineyard estates are hard to comp; illustrative only.
        Priced & un-priced risk

        The risk register

        Not tasks — risks. Severity × likelihood, dollar impact, and whether it must be resolved before you wire money. This is your discount, itemized.

        Your working tool

        The diligence checklist

        The verify-before-you-wire list, ordered by what matters. It saves to this browser — tick items off as you go, share progress, reset when you want.

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