Jealousy is a terrible thing. Every time a large, expensive home shows up here it becomes a target for criticism, whether it’s in BH, SaMo, Brentwood, BelAir or PacPal. Give it a rest, people. Don’t like the house? Move on. Whether the house is beautiful or not, well, that’s subjective. The owners thought it was nice so they built it/bought it. Jeezus.
Despite bursting RE bubbles throughout the US, certain markets will always remain strong, aka LA’s Westside (Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Malibu, and Brentwood).
Demand for property still exceeds inventory. One reason is the large number of high-wealth individuals that live in Los Angeles.
CNNMoney.com said in April ’07 that L.A. County has the highest number of millionaire households in the country.(!)
The region has 268,138 millionaire households, which make up 3% of the national total.
The Five-Year 405 Freeway Project Finally Ends Next Month
@Brentwood 4 Life: I’ve heard the grade is too steep to run it down the middle of the 405 anyhow, so if rail is built, it will likely be in a tunnel through the pass… then perhaps at grade, or cut and cover, down Westwood (I’m guessing) once you travel south of UCLA.
The idiots that seem to think that every neighborhood other than Brentwood is "gang infested" never fail to amuse. What complete tools. They should probably move back to wherever they came from, because clearly the big city is too scary for them.
BTW – I hear Paris Hilton lives in a pretty nice neighborhood. How’s that working out for her?
PS: let me clarify my statement, though — I’m Not a valley hater (I’m orginially from Tarzana, remember? I was 10 before I got out to Brentwood and beyond)!
I think there are PLENTY of decidedly cool people who just happen to live and/or work in the Valley. You guys are still great in my book…My head is still spinning though!
I have no sympathy for homeowners, but less for UCLA students. They have no business owning cars or driving to campus if they don’t buy parking permits or parking with their apartment.
A permit parking district will result and solve nothing.
The unwanted cars will move to another street.
I think fair price is $185,000 that way I can move out my mom’s basement and … oh wait I still couldn’t afford it even at that price … plus its not in the kind of neighborhood I deserve to live in anyway. Now if it was in Brentwood, WeHo, a nicer part of Santa Monica and not some place full of gangs, homeless and illegals then I would think of buying it.
Dirt Cheap Upper West Side Apartment is Too Good to be True
Southern California home prices and sales improve in November
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Flat Lot With Pool in Brentwood Ready to Take a Hit
Pretty wild that it sold for almost 2mil back in 2006 yet still</> needed an "extensive remodel." I’d love to say it’s overpriced but a nice, flat, third an acre of Brentwood, with a turn-key 3200 sq ft of space, may indeed trade higher than list. To get anything beyond cute but tiny, sniffing the 405 or yardless, 1.5mil is the minimum buy in, at the 90049 table.