A courtyard entry, skylit rooms and a backyard pool anchor the latest chapter for 17414 Cumpston Street in Encino’s Amestoy Estates. The single-story home, designed by Roy Kiter, returned to the market on October 16 for $4,295,000, nearly two years after its last sale.
Current asking price and property facts: MLSListings, reviewed October 17, 2026.
A courtyard sets the tone
The remodel’s arrival sequence begins with an oversized pivot door and a stone courtyard with a pond and waterfall. Inside, skylights and wide-plank oak floors carry the design through the living spaces. Folding glass doors connect the living room to the courtyard, giving the entry garden a role beyond the first impression.
The kitchen pairs Shinnoki cabinetry with porcelain slab counters, a large island and ZLINE appliances. A separate family room includes a wet bar and wine display. At the rear, a covered patio leads to the pool and two fire-pit seating areas. Paid-off solar is also advertised. These features are described in the current listing.
From renovation opportunity to a new asking price
The previous marketing presented the property as a renovation opportunity, with high ceilings, fireplaces and a landscaped pool setting. Redfin’s sale history records a closing at $2,360,000 on November 21, 2024. The new asking price is $1.935 million above that sale; renovation costs are not disclosed in the reviewed sources.
Roy Kiter in the building record
The original City of Los Angeles building application for 17414 Cumpston Street names Roy Kiter in the “Architect or Designer” field. The application identifies Roger Boyar as both owner and contractor and describes a one-story dwelling with an attached garage. The supplied record bears 1969 processing dates, preceding the 1970 construction year in the listing.
The reported Robert Kite connection
The Roy Kiter name also appears in reporting on a 1953 ranch overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir. In Mansion Global’s account of film editor Billy Weber’s home, listing agent Thomas Raiguel said the original permit names Roy Kiter and identified that name as an early pseudonym for architect Robert Kite.
Robert Woodville Kite graduated from USC’s School of Architecture in 1952, according to his 2021 Los Angeles Times obituary. It credits his firm, Kite and Overpeck Architects, with projects including the 9000 Sunset Building, Beverly Hillcrest Hotel and Standard Insurance Building at La Cienega and Wilshire.
The Kiter name appears in coastal residential marketing, too: an archived listing for 1414 Morningside Drive in Laguna Beach credits Roy Kiter with that 1974 home. That listing supplies a separate residential attribution; it does not independently establish the pseudonym connection.
For more Encino architecture, revisit the blog’s September coverage of Ray Kappe’s Strimling House, or browse the Development & Architecture archive.
Street View
Street View imagery: July 2022, before the current remodel.
Listing photo gallery
Photos via Redfin / CRMLS, listing SR26224123. Click a photo to enlarge; use the arrows to browse.
Newspaper clippings
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