Real Estate

Jan 6, 2009 | 1 comment

Renters in the Inland Empire are caught in the middle of foreclosure disputes.

Jan 7, 2009

The LA Times is reporting that courts have sided with the city on the ongoing billboard-blight...

Jan 6, 2009

On Thursday, January 22nd, we all get the chance to save MOCA.

Jan 4, 2009

In Thousand Oaks, the city buys a piece of land in the Santa Monica Mountains that could have gone the way of the mega-mansion...

Jan 4, 2009

There has been a lot of chatter downtown about an upcoming auction for units at the Rowan lofts building -- largely because bids start at $195,000...

Jan 3, 2009 | 1 comment

A statue being dedicated on Jan. 3, 2009, honors the birthplace of surfing for a cool $2.8 million.

Jan 2, 2009 | 21 comments

Nope, that's not a joke about Russia -- Palin's the celeb most Americans want as their neighbor, according to a new poll

Dec 26, 2008 | 6 comments

With some help from designer Xorin Balbes, Esquire magazine transformed this contemporary LA home into the ultimate bachelor pad...

Dec 25, 2008

Take a tour of this 8800 square foot Beverly HIlls estate -- designed by Abramson Teiger -- which offers unobstructed Canyon views and a unique outdoor/indoor living room, among other luxuries. Find more...

Dec 23, 2008

What do you do when you love fish and design? Skip the goldfish-covered shower curtain and live the life aquatic with an exotic aquarium that will add both tranquility and value to your home. Find more...

Dec 19, 2008

Now you can stop losing sleep at night worrying about where Ed McMahon rests his head. TMZ reports the former 'Tonight Show' sidekick will not lose his home, which has been in foreclosure for months. Both...

Dec 19, 2008

Ryan Brown, principal of Brown design and star of Bravo's Flipping Out gives a tour of this Hollywood Hills home, which offers a Zen mix of architectural expertise and nature. Find more amazing properties...

Dec 18, 2008 | 5 comments

The new owners of the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel announce plans to replace the iconic half-circle structure with two skyscrapers, but conservationists said the project would tear down an important...

Dec 19, 2008 | 1 comment

Renters whose residences have gone into foreclosure cannot be evicted until the property is sold to a new owner thanks to a new city law.

Dec 19, 2008 | 5 comments

Cool and funky as Silver Lake is, it's never been a major hot-spot for serious nightlifers. Especially that stretch of Hyperion near the Trader Joe's, which is mostly takeout restaurants, grocery stores...

Dec 16, 2008

Home prices fall again, this time to levels not seen since 2003.

Dec 18, 2008

Walking neighborhoods and parks are a rare find in car-happy LA. Silver Lake, one of those rare areas, is making it even nicer to stroll, jog, skip, levitate around the reservoir with the shiny new Walking...

Dec 17, 2008

Something sounds strangely familiar about our Museum of Contemporary Art's plight. Losing money hand over fist, rumors of poor leadership and imminent pink slips, possible public bail-outs ... Fannie and...

Dec 16, 2008 | 1 comment

Potential buyers who've been frozen out of the sky-high market now have a shot in Hades to buy property in LA.

Dec 15, 2008

From the ever more devious minds of movie marketing comes this stroke of product-placement genius: The Hotel for Dogs at the Westfield Mall, to promote... "Hotel for Dogs" the movie. Oh-so conveniently...

Dec 12, 2008 | 1 comment

Trader Joe's opens a new store in Brentwood...

Dec 11, 2008 | 2 comments

Even with falling home values, real estate in Southern California is still too pricey for many first-time buyers. They just can't afford the down payments.

Dec 11, 2008

After all of Michael Jackson's highs and lows -- the music, the fame, the trial, the nose -- most of us are in no danger of forgetting the man. But some of us (me, me!) would take wicked delight in having...

Dec 9, 2008

An air of romance runs through this Spanish-style hacienda, which is big on details -- from hand-painted tiles to vaulted ceilings and custom ironwork on the elaborate staircase.