Exclusive | Killer tides pummel Malibus ritziest enclave as celeb homes sit unsold: Its so depressing

Inside Malibu Colony on Saturday, the guard-gated enclave’s high-powered homeowners were cleaning up after high tides tore away many of their oceanfront decks and the stairs leading down to the beach.Wood planks and rusty nails churned in the surf.Shards of glass from blown-out windows piled up on battered decks like a Hollywood crime scene — the aftermath of Tropical Storm Rachel’s punishing waves and unusually high tides.Other residents were mopping up seawater and sand that had seeped into their homes and prized tea houses.

A Colony association meeting was canceled Saturday so neighbors could tend to the damage.“It’s so depressing, first you have to drive through where the wildfires were and now this.Anybody who comes here for Thanksgiving is crazy.

You’d only be able to cook half a turkey before the electricity is turned off [due to high winds],” one Colony board member told The Post.The Colony got off easier than Newport Beach and Long Beach, where waves crashed over seawalls and flooded streets.But the enclave is still hurting.

Sales have stalled as residents and buyers sit tight, and brokers expect three more king tides before year’s end.“Malibu Colony is low-key but everybody here is super rich.Whenever anyone talks about the fires, they never mention Malibu.

Everyone thinks, ‘F–k you, you are already rich and this is probably your second home even though so many homes burned down,’” a resident said.Malibu is often dubbed the “wildfire capital” of North America, and roughly 700 homes inside city limits were destroyed in the 2025 Palisades Fire.Flames returned to the Malibu hills late Thursday afternoon, when the Bryson Fire broke out in brush near Encinal Canyon Road and Mulholland Highway.

Fanned by fierce Santa Ana winds, it scorched 200 acres by evening with zero containment.Evacuation orders and warnings were issued for parts of the area, though no structures had burned and no one had been injured at press time.Known ...