Robert's Beach Blog

Ah yes, I can remember when our home in Westwood Village cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000. Just south of Wilshire Blvd, it was a beauty with a bamboo walled den and porch from this romantic feeling room overlooking a sizeable backyard. The large garage was on the back of the yard. We ...

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 I’ve been sending out some of the nice selections locally to a picky market. Hard to figure. People seem to be very selective with no particular reason. Even 4-unit listings are beginning to make an appearance after it seems like a lifetime of sitting in the weeds. Buyers are simply finding it h...

 For a little town with nothing fancy going on, and a few entrances that make it look like a grungy scene from the old ‘78 film noir movie with Robert De Niro, “The Deer Hunter,” El Segundo is slowly becoming an El Primero town with one of a kind restaurants that are not found elseware in So. Cal...

How’s the South Bay Real Estate Market? Stable would probably be the best word to describe it. In Manhattan Beach, there are 6 fewer properties for sale compared to last month. The median price is $738,250 higher for Single Family Residences, and $200,000 lower for Townhome/Condos. The other So. ...

Every once in a while one just needs to take it easy and examine ‘things of consequence’. Nothing too heavy, but worth the trip. So you think there’s nothing to do today? Amazing how many seniors get this into their heads and it becomes as permanent as any landfill. I had a dear friend who unfort...

Let’s face it, a lot of people screwed up. It’s become a tremendous mess and no one wants to take the blame. There are some who can’t avoid the blame. There are others who are looking for a plate full of pitty. And of course, there’s the Govt. Watch Dogs who came in a tad too late, pointing the f...

The ad said, “Easy Financing. Low FICO scores no problem. Stated Income only.” What a deal. It doesn’t take much imagination to picture the chain of events leading  to the ultimate conclusion...Foreclosure, based on Predatory Lending. There has been a landslide of financing  in a spectacular unpr...

Yes, that wine country...Burgundy. What a wonderful idea.A client in the process of investing in the neighborhood of 2 million euros ($2,724,202, the euro/dollar exchange being the only negative) for a 2nd home in Burgundy, made the observation, “I can remember a couple of years ago in Paris, it ...

 ...‘All those years ago, that torture victim kept moving his lips, trying to articulate an explanation, muttering the same words over and over. "It was a mistake," he repeated, and in the next few days I pieced together his sad and foolish tale.’ (From article c.c. “The Torture Debate” by Ariel ...