Low interest rates battle coronavirus in real estate market
“Attendance at open houses was normal to heavy. But I’d expect that to go down,” Phil Jones said, now that the health situation is continuing to grow more dire by the day.
Ebell Club brings elegant history to weddings and other special events
If you want to use the Ebell for your own wedding, you’d better hurry up and get engaged now. Owner Alan Dunn says the space, which handles about 100 to 120 events per year, is booked on Saturdays pretty much all year.
Park Estates home sparkles after $1 million in upgrades
Developer Lloyd Whaley set a 2.5-acre lot aside for himself on Bryant Drive, perhaps the toniest street in Park Estates and one that was named for Susanna Bixby Bryant, who, as owner of Rancho Los Cerritos, had owned much of the 205 acres that made up the neighborhood.
Go back in time with the historical ‘Clock House,’ on the market for $2.19 million
The Clock House today mirrors the quality of its stewardship, with loads of rich wood throughout with simple Federalist design features.
Low-cost rentals in Long Beach are rare — and small
$1,000/month studio apartments are virtually extinct in Long Beach these days, with only about 2% of rentals going for $1,000 or less, while more than 50% are renting for more than $2,000 a month.
Heritage Award winners this year includes some heroic home rescues
Among the award-winning homes this year is a pair of fairly heroic projects that rescued some examples of early Long Beach from obscurity, if not outright destruction.
Enjoy a million-dollar view, for about a million dollars
The penthouses are all two-story units situated on the 18th and 19th floors of the towers at 388 and 488 E. Ocean Blvd., and range in interior roaming space from 2,094 to 2,330 square feet.
Million-dollar homes are popping up farther from the pricey coast
Homes costing in excess of a million dollars are beginning to appear in neighborhoods north of the high-dollar coastal areas in Long Beach, such as Los Altos and Lakewood Village.
At Seal Beach Shores, you can live by the ocean on a beach bum’s budget
The residents of Seal Beach Shores incorporated in November 2005 with the specific purpose of buying the park. It is now a stock cooperative in which the residents own not only their homes, but a share of the land on which they sit.
Have you put away a few thousand dollars for your next staycation?
If it helps you rationalize the cost, that’s only the price of about 425 venti lattes per day at Starbucks. Everything’s less costly when you compare it to the price of a Starbucks’ lattes.