South Bay Real Estate: 2018 Fearless Predictions
Mortgage Rates Will Rise Moderately
One of the biggest questions in residential real estate is whether or not mortgage rates will rise. This coming year, 30-year mortgage rates will rise very moder...
Liberty Village
East Manhattan Beach Has Surged in Both Prices and Sales
East Manhattan Beach
As Manhattan Beach Sand Section home sales have begun to slow due to high prices, a nearby beneficiary has emerged over the last few years – East Manhattan Beach homes. Buyers have come to realize that East MB offers a...
South Bay Value Areas – Recap of 2016 and 2017
We are right around the corner from kicking this June gloom and heading straight into the South Bay summer. This marine layer reminded me of a 2016 June blog titled Value Areas in the Beach Cities. In this blog I examined areas offering a to...
Recent Lot Deals in Manhattan Beach
Lot sales in Manhattan Beach are always a favorite research topic of mine. These sales can be an indication of an area's next price driver or sometimes it is just an aggressive homeowner trying to build their dream home. With accelerated Manha...
Record Breaking Income Property Sales in South Bay Real Estate
A new record apartment sale was made (again!) here in the South Bay. If you followed my blog back in September 2016 then you read about the record breaking Sand Section sale in Hermosa Beach (New Era for Hermosa Apartments after Record Sale). T...
Affordable Homes are En Vogue
It is hard to fathom how in demand affordable homes are in the South Bay. Currently, if there is a home listing for sale on the lower end of the price spectrum for the area, there is massive demand.
Redondo Beach
There has been a frenzy...
New Era for Hermosa Apartments after Record Sale
A few months ago I wrote an article on “Sky High Hermosa Beach Apartment Building Prices.” The article focused on two completely remodeled, gorgeous apartment buildings with ocean views that came to market at record pricing. I dove into ot...
Liberty Village Still Compelling for All Types of Buyers
We are big fans of Manhattan Beach (who isn’t?), and although it is an expensive and highly competitive market to be a buyer, there can still be great values in the area if you are willing to keep an open mind.
One area that has been hot o...
A Bevy of New Contemporary Hits the Manhattan Beach Market
This past week brought a large number of fresh home listings to Manhattan Beach. Now that the spring selling season is under way, we expect more listings and more buyers gobbling up that inventory.
We noticed that of the new to newer const...