The East Hermosa Beach new construction market has been pretty wild over the last two years.
Hermosa Beach is a relatively small South Bay city with fewer sales than most neighboring cities, ...
With multiple requests to write about “The Lanes” in Rolling Hills Estates, here you have it! The city of Rolling Hills Estates is tricky as the city boundaries spread over five MLS areas. Today’s blog will cover the largest portion (ab...
Bruce Norris is generally regarded as one of the best California residential real estate forecasters. Not only is he self-taught in real estate economics and data, but he is also a real estate investor himself. He is a great source because he...
During my time in real estate, I have learned certain clues give me a fast and fairly accurate analysis on the market. One of those clues is homes resold in a short period of time. I am not talking about flips where an investor adds value to ...
As the South Bay home market begins to wake from its holiday slumber, I went back to study this normally slow season. From my research, I found an unusually high amount of sales in the luxury home market. In only 42 days, from December 1st to...
The Interest Rate Effect
Interest rates are the most important topic facing the residential real estate market in 2019. This past year, The Fed allowed interest rates to rise too fast in hopes of slowing the economy. As a result, the r...
Happy New Year! As we begin 2019, I am starting to make
my annual predictions blog for the year. Until, then, I wanted to explore a few
topics relevant to the New Year.
Real Estate in January
In my opinion, January is always ...
Every January I write my fearless predictions for the South Bay real estate market in the upcoming year. As the year comes to an end, I like to hold myself accountable and show readers how my predictions actually turned out. If you want to re...
Last week a gorgeous “zen-like” contemporary home sold for a big number in the sand section of north Hermosa Beach at 230 34th Street. It closed at a whopping $5,250,000, and while we have become numb to high priced sales by the beach this...
If you follow me on Instagram, then you know this post is brought to you by reader’s choice! I usually get the most readers when I write about the beach cities, but much to my surprise, the majority of votes for upcoming blog topics were for ...
Earlier this year, our office was buzzing with excitement over the new real estate Opportunity Zones created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017. This section of the TCJA was created to help under-served communities attract investment c...