What’s Changing in Culver City’s Hayden Tract I drove down Eastham Drive this week and pulled over to get a picture, because the construction there says something about a corner of Culver City most people drive past without knowing its name. The buildings look almost like lofts, but what’s going up on the east side…
How Compass Concierge Works for Culver City Sellers If you want your home to show well before it hits the market but don’t want to pay for it out of pocket, Compass Concierge is worth understanding before you list. It’s a program that fronts the cost of getting your home ready to sell, at a…
Can I Buy My Next Home Before I Sell My Culver City House? Yes, often you can, and for a lot of longtime Culver City owners it’s actually the easier path, not the harder one. What it takes depends mostly on two things: how much you owe (if anything) on your current home, and whether…
What’s Coming to the Corner of Washington and Centinela in Culver City West If you drive Washington Boulevard through Culver City West, you already know the corner at Centinela. It’s the kind of intersection that’s been waiting for something for a while. That something has a name now: Culver Commons, a new retail project going…
What Do You Do With Decades of Belongings Before You Sell Your Culver City Home? If you have lived in your home for twenty, thirty, forty years, the house is not the hard part of selling. The stuff is. Furniture you have not moved since the Carter administration, boxes in the garage nobody has opened,…
If You Sell Your Culver City Home After Decades, Do You Lose Your Low Property Taxes? Not automatically. Since April 1, 2021, California’s Proposition 19 lets homeowners 55 or older transfer the taxable value of their current home to a new one, anywhere in the state, up to three times in their life. If you…
When you are buying or selling in Culver City, the history behind a street or a neighborhood usually explains something about it today. Why certain blocks have small lots and older bungalows. Why some areas still carry a bit of an industrial edge while others feel purely residential. Why a piece of land ended up…
The Real History of Blair Hills, Culver City: A Land Grant and a Will Rogers Connection Blair Hills is one of those Culver City pockets people drive past for years without knowing the name. A few hundred homes on a hillside off La Cienega, quiet streets, big trees. Someone asked me the other day whether…
How Much Money Do You Need to Buy a Home in Los Angeles? Most people in Los Angeles think buying a home takes $200,000 in the bank. That number keeps a lot of would-be buyers renting for years longer than they need to. The down payment is one piece, not the whole bill When people…
Selling a Home You Inherited in Los Angeles: Where to Start If you’ve inherited a house, I’m sorry. For most people this comes after losing a parent, and the house lands on top of a long list of hard things at a hard time. You don’t need someone rushing you, and you don’t need a…
The Culver Hotel Has Survived a Century. That Tells You Something About Culver City. You can walk past the Culver Hotel a hundred times and not think twice about it. It’s just there, on the corner, doing what it’s always done. But a building that’s stood in the same spot on the same street for…
Should I Sell My House in Los Angeles Now or Wait? If you’re wondering whether you should sell your house in Los Angeles now or wait, I’d start with a different question: What are you hoping the wait will accomplish? Maybe you’re hoping home prices will rise. Maybe you’re waiting for mortgage rates to come…
When the Hollywood Bowl first opened in 1922, it was more than a music venue. Los Angeles was young, ambitious, and determined to prove it was more than a Wild West town. The Bowl’s founders wanted a gathering place that would elevate the entire community, and they delivered an architectural and cultural landmark that still…
Route 66 officially received its designation on November 11, 1926, stretching 2,448 miles from Chicago to the California coast. If you’ve been to the Santa Monica Pier and looked out at the Pacific, you have stood at the symbolic end of one of America’s most famous highways. The road that built Los Angeles. Route 66…
Guard-gated, historically significant, and surprisingly attainable — here’s why this West LA gem deserves your attention. By Nicole Strober, DRE #02001608 Compass I’ve sold in many communities across Los Angeles, but whenever I show someone Cameo Woods for the first time, there’s always a moment, usually right after the guard waves you through the…
