Los Angeles’ Top 10 Most Expensive Commercial Real Estate Deals of 2014
Supported by a robust economic environment, the Los Angeles real estate market has experienced strong improvement in 2014, and is expected to remain solid for the next few years. Determined to capitalize on the strong demand for both residential and commercial properties, many investors have turned their attention to L.A., with the top 10 largest…
10 Spooky L.A. Buildings: The Real Estate Side of the Story
With the help of Redditors, we picked 10 of the creepiest buildings in Los Angeles, and dug deep in their property reports to tell their real estate story. Rarely has there been a horror story without a brick and mortar location to serve as its background. And since there’s such a strong connection between real…
LA’s 10 Biggest Tax Payers: From F1 Heiress to the Ultimate Playboy
As Nickelback put it, we all want ‘a brand new house on an episode of Cribs’; but a huge house and ‘A front door key to the Playboy mansion‘ come at a cost – and I’m not just talking about the purchase price. Los Angeles property taxes for million dollar homes can escalate up to…
Looking for Vacant Land in Los Angeles? Here’s a Map of All Vacant Lots in the County
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to identify all Los Angeles vacant lots at a glance? We thought that’s something you might be interested in, so we put together this useful map overlay that shows all tracts of vacant land spread around Los Angeles County, and included a breakdown by county-designated landuse – residential,…
Top 5 Reasons to Attend our Los Angeles Real Estate Networking Party
Have you heard about our upcoming Los Angeles real estate networking party? If you haven’t (or maybe you’re not quite convinced yet), here are the top 5 reasons why you should join us on May 27, 6:00 PM at the Lexington Social House: Great networking opportunities: connect with over 300 real estate professionals and some…
See where the fun is: Mapping NYC and LA’s Halloween party locations
Looking for a good scare this Halloween? We’ve put together two fun maps with some of the best party locations around NYC and LA to help you spot the one that’s closest to you! Moreover, we’ve broken them down into 2 categories: the ones that are adult-centered – and may involve alcohol and late hours…
LA County Tax Sale Coming Up; 3,500+ Properties Scheduled for Auction
Looking for information on the 2014 LA County Tax Sale? You can find it here. With only a few days left until this year’s Los Angeles County Tax Sale – set to take place on October 21, 22 in Pomona – we thought we’d take a look at the properties that will go up for…
Selling Homes? These Are the Most Popular Keywords NYC Agents Use to Sell Fast
Selling a property can take a long time, and in NYC the average selling time can last even longer than in many other parts of the nation. One of the things that agents can do to speed up a sale is to work on the listing description carefully. And if you ever wondered what those…
The Kardashians and the Trumps Top PropertyShark’s Searches by Property Owner
Celebrities and the real estate sector usually make quite a hot pair. How hot? It depends if you are on the East Coast or West Coast, and if you prefer Hollywood to the business world. At PropertyShark we were quite curious to see what names most people were running owner searches for, and the results…
Chart of the Week: Top 10 Largest Homes in Los Angeles
If you live in NYC or any other city where very large home spaces are rather scarce, we won’t think anything less of you if you skipped this week’s chart. This time at PropertyShark, we searched for the 10 largest homes in Los Angeles by building square footage and watched numbers go from 28,222sqft to…
Average Home Sizes in Washington D.C., Atlanta Twice As Much as in New York
The average home in New York City (all the five boroughs) is 1,124 square feet, which places the Big Apple at the bottom of the list of 20 cities in the U.S. Home owners in Washington D.C. and Atlanta enjoy almost twice as much space as New Yorkers.
2011 Oscar Nominees Homes In The Los Angeles Hills
We created a map pointing out the location of the homes of some of the 2011 Oscar nominees Los Angeles. (Specific address not included) One of them is Mark Wahlberg, who allegedly bought a 6 acre vacant lot in Beverly Hills zip code 90210 in 2009 for which he paid $8.2 million. Another resident of…
2009 Malibu Residential Sales Map
In this PropertyShark study on the value of a beachfront property in Malibu, we see that the median sale price for beachfront homes is 51% higher than it is for homes on the ocean side of the Pacific Coast Highway (but not beachfront) and 122% higher than for those on the other side of the…
Priciest homes in Beverly Hills that hit the market in March 2010
Here are the three most expensive properties we identified in Beverly Hills that hit the market in March. You can click on the picture for more details on the listing or click on the address for a detailed property report. 335 Trousdale Place, Beverly Hills, 90210Asking price: $14,565,000 Beds: 4 Baths: 6 9909 Beverly Grove,…
Biggest Los Angeles commercial transactions happening at the courthouse
The five largest transactions so far in 2010 for non-residential properties in Los Angeles County happened via government auction. The property at 9900 Wilshire Avenue in Beverly Hills sold at auction for $150,000,000, property records show. The owners, CPC Group, were in default on a $365.5 million loan, the LA Times reports. They had apparently…
Malibu, California: Steady number of sales, but decrease in median sale price
In this PropertyShark study that was first covered in the Los Angeles Times, we see that the number of sold homes remained steady in Malibu for 2009 (148 sold homes*) when compared to 2008 (145 sold homes). However, it’s still a significant drop from the peak years in 2005 (275 sold homes) and 2007 (240…
Los Angeles residential listings with largest price cuts in the past week
PropertyShark has identified the top 3 properties in Los Angeles with the largest total dollar price drops during the past week. You can click on the photo for more listing details or click on the address for a detailed property report. 16150 Peterson Drive, Whittier Single family home (short sale) Beds: 5 Baths: 7 First…
Distressed homes listed for sale in Los Angeles
While there can be risk involved, distressed properties can occasionally present an opportunity to buy a home for less than market value. Here are three single family homes in Los Angeles that are listed for sale and currently have a trustee sale scheduled. 7501 Bellingham Avenue, North Hollywood Single Family Home Beds: 3 Baths: 3…
Most expensive new properties for sale in Los Angeles this week
Here are the three most expensive properties that we identified in Los Angeles that hit the market in the past week. Each one of these properties has unique features of some type. It can be anything from 128 feet of beach frontage to a private spa, media room or city views. You can click on…
Q4 2009 Manhattan Apartment Sales Map
In conjunction with Corcoran, PropertyShark.com just released the Q4 2009 Corcoran Report, covering apartment sales (condo & coops) in Manhattan from the last quarter of 2009. For a visual perspective, we have put together an interactive map showing all sales that took place in the fourth quarter of 2009. The size of the circle indicates…
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