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.
Opinion: The last chance to save the Queen? A commission of independent experts
The ship’s news archive is one long and disappointing saga of carpet-baggery, financial loss, a continuum of carelessness, a neverending inability to turn it into a money-making tourist attraction and, most recently, something close to a shipwreck.
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.
Island living in Avalon: From the saline to the sublime
Avalon home prices roughly mirror the prices you’ll find in coastal Long Beach, not surprisingly because Catalina is largely coastal and even a rundown lean-to is likely to have an ocean view or be “steps from the beach.”
Made a resolution? Jan. 12 is the day to break it
Studies have located the precise date when you will fall back into your filthy, slovenly, reckless and dangerous habits: Jan. 12. Failure Day.
In Cal Heights this week, buyers can purchase a lot — and a little more
True, this plot of land doesn’t have most of the amenities you’d find in a $660,000 home, but if parking is an issue, you can scratch that item off your list. The 9,687-square-foot property will easily accommodate 26 vehicles.