• calendar_month 10/31/24
• category local attractions
• post halloween, haunted houses, los angeles

Featured image credit: Russ Allison Loar The Queen Mary has quite the reputation. No, we don’t mean a disgraced monarch. We’re talking about the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary permanently moored in the Port of Long Beach. You know, the allegedly haunted Queen Mary? She ferried the world’s ultra-wealthy across the globe’s blue highway for nearly three decades und...

• calendar_month 10/17/24
• category real estate
• post los angeles, palm springs

Is it better to rent out or list homes for sale in California? You’d be surprised how much this question comes up. There’s no denying that property is a solid investment. But when you’ve generated enough wealth to consider retiring your primary residence to an investment property, it’s time to make that crucial choice. Is it more lucrative to keep your home and rent it o...

• calendar_month 10/16/24
• category Entertainment, local attractions
• post palm springs

If you think that Palm Springs could do with a little more… strike that… A LOT more pink, you’re in luck. The prodigiously pink Trixie Motel opened its doors to guests on Thursday, September 1st. For some, it’s yet another boutique hotel to consider for the next weekend getaway. But to others, it’s an unabashed oasis of killer kitsch in an enclave that ...

• calendar_month 10/14/24
• category Legal
• post palm springs

Back in May, we published a blog about the forthcoming death of restaurant service fees. But it looks like we spoke… err, wrote too soon. Normally, we’d just update the original blog to reflect this, but since lawmakers are pushing through a complete “about face” at the 11th hour, we felt this deserved its own blog. Yes, due to the frenzied efforts of sev...

• calendar_month 10/11/24
• category Absorption Rate
• post los angeles

This is the single most impressive absorption rate analysis we’ve published since we first started sharing our numbers in August 2022. Perhaps it was the market anticipating the federal interest rate drop. We’re finally below 5%! Or perhaps things really are just starting to swing in the buyer’s favor. Whatever the case, the dropping absorption rates this month were unusual bu...

• calendar_month 10/09/24
• category Architecture 101, Restaurants
• post los angeles

Featured image credit: Chalmers Butterfield Here in the post-internet world, it’s hard to recall just how dramatically the automobile changed the country. Few American cities felt the cultural impact quite like Los Angeles. The arrival of the family car in Southern California created fertile ground for a series of architectural movements with none more over-the-top than programmat...

• calendar_month 10/09/24
• category Architecture 101, Restaurants
• post los angeles

Featured image credit: Chalmers Butterfield Here in the post-internet world, it’s hard to recall just how dramatically the automobile changed the country. Few American cities felt the cultural impact quite like Los Angeles. The arrival of the family car in Southern California created fertile ground for a series of architectural movements with none more over-the-top than programmat...

• calendar_month 08/28/23
• category home decor

Featured image credit: Stan Shebs Living in the entertainment capital of the planet, we have our fair share of mansions in LA. And we mean mansions by every definition. Obviously, the word “mansion” more or less means something. But the details change slightly depending on who you ask. So what makes a house a mansion? Here’s the clearest answer possible&helli...

• calendar_month 04/05/23
• category Network
• post entrepreneur, Women

Like any proud father, JohnHart CEO, founder, and principal broker Harout Keuroghlian wanted his daughters to rule the world. Yet, looking around the real estate industry and beyond, he witnessed an overwhelming resistance stacked against female professionals. Sure, many still managed to overcome it. But the lack of justice incensed him. Then, he had a revelation. While his own dreams for his d...

• calendar_month 03/13/23
• category HOUSING
• post landlord, tenant

Must RSVP to Christina Malyan at 818-522-6621 or via email at realtormalyan@gmail.com   

• calendar_month 03/10/23
• category Social Media
• post technology

A new platform called “Take It Down” promises sensory protection for minors on social media. This tool allows users to attach a digital fingerprint, called a hash value, to specific explicit images and videos on their devices. Many believe that when you post something on social media, such as a nude photo, it’s there forever. Take It Down will combat this issue for minors...

• calendar_month 03/01/23
• category commercial re
• post los angeles county

About a month ago, we updated our blog with some timely predictions from our CEO, founder, and principal broker Harout Keuroghlian. For those not following, he took us back to the first days of the global pandemic to remind us of the prediction he made: commercial offices would be repurposed for living space. Some big news out of downtown LA may now be further corroborating Harout&rsq...

• calendar_month 02/05/23
• category Homeless Crisis
• post los angeles

Featured image credit: Mai-Linh Doan Newly elected Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has wasted no time in declaring a state of emergency for the city’s homeless crisis. With the city council officially approving the declaration on Tuesday, December 13, one question remains. How does the civic government get a handle on a problem with so much inertia behind it? Most signs point to an a...

• calendar_month 01/31/23
• category office space
• post commercial, los angeles

Last Monday, Fox Business ran a story exploring an idea we’ve previously discussed on our blog: the use of commercial real estate to supplement a shortage of housing. This isn’t a revelation for anyone in our industry. In fact, our CEO, founder, and principal broker Harout Keuroghlian predicted the move just weeks into the global pandemic of 2020. We decided to g...

• calendar_month 12/12/22
• category HOLIDAYS
• post altadena, los angeles, torrance, Woodland Hills

It can be tough to get into the spirit of the holidays when you live in Southern California. After all, our weather is just so relentlessly perfect that we just can’t quite get that snowed-in sense of coziness. But packing the family into the car and checking out some of the area’s best (and free) Christmas light displays can do the trick. There’s something just so spectrally ...

• calendar_month 10/26/22
• category COMMUNITY
• post holidays, los angeles

LA Home Spotlight: Under the Spell of the Spadena House  Home Design & Decor October 25, 2022October 25, 2022  Seth Styles We’ve always thought of Los Angeles as a bewitching city. Does that mean we have literal covens flying around? We can’t say for certain, but if we do, we know where they’d love to convene. Amidst the decadence of Beverly H...

• calendar_month 10/18/22
• category ADU
• post adu, homes, housing, housing market, los angeles county, luxury, million dollar listing, money, passive income, real estate

When it comes to shopping for a new home in Southern California, we’ve noticed everybody tends to want one thing: a refreshing swimming pool. But a well-designed ADU is right behind it. So, what is this ADU California residents love so much? It’s an acronym for “accessory dwelling unit” and it’s an independent living space that shares a lot with a main residence....