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March 4, 2016

Laurel Canyon Homes For Sale

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Laurel Canyon is named for it’s thoroughfare, Laurel Canyon Boulevard. However, unlike other nearby canyon neighborhoods, Laurel Canyon has houses lining one side of the main street most of the way up to Mulholland Drive. There are many side roads that branch off the main canyon, but most are not through streets, giving a rare self-contained nature of the neighborhood.

Laurel Canyon found itself a nexus of counterculture activity and attitudes in the 1960s, becoming famous as home to many of L.A.’s rock musicians, such as Frank Zappa; Jim Morrison of The Doors; The Byrds; Buffalo Springfield; and Love.

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The icon of Laurel Canyon is the Canyon Country Store, on Laurel Canyon Boulevard, the most tangible relic of the area’s musical heyday. The Country Store is a neighborhood institution and a purveyor of surprisingly good wines and delicious custom-made deli sandwiches. Resolutely ungentrified by the same owners since 1982, the red-brick building still packs a flower-power punch in its psychedelic murals, bougainvillea-splashed patio.

The area continues to appeal to residents with bohemian and artistic sensibilities, in part due to the area offering some of the most affordable real estate in the Hollywood Hills West area. Since Laurel Canyon offers some small lots without a view, the neighborhood allows buyers to purchase in the Hollywood Hills at a much lower price point than neighboring areas. While this is true, the neighborhood is also home to numerous examples of modern architecture as well as lots with panoramic views. Laurel Hills is a subdivision located within the Laurel Canyon area.

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March 3, 2016February 4, 2018

Sherman Oaks Homes For Sale

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Like most neighborhoods in the Valley, Sherman Oaks is a city that is beautiful to people who wish to live a suburban life. Sherman Oaks is a very popular suburban neighborhood with a many residential single family homes. Many have swimming pools and located close to shopping and restaurants. It has easy access because it’s close to major freeways.

The best thing about living in a suburban area is having clean and large community parks and other sites for recreation.

The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park is in Sherman Oaks. It’s a popular site for family gatherings. The park has an auditorium, two lighted baseball diamonds, six unlighted baseball diamonds, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children’s play area, a 60-person community room, a lighted American football field, an indoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, a lighted soccer (football) field, and lighted tennis courts. Located in the same place as the park, the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Pool is a seasonal outdoor heated swimming pool. HOMES FOR SALE

The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Senior Citizen Center (also known as Bernardi Center), also on the park grounds, has an auditorium and multi-purpose room; its banquet capacity is 200 and its assembly capacity is 300. The senior center also has two community/meeting rooms; one can hold 50 people and one can hold 30 people. The senior center has two kitchens, a play area, a shuffle board place, a stage, and two storage rooms. The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Tennis Courts facility in the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park has eight courts.

In addition the city operates the Sherman Oaks Castle Park, with arcade, batting cages, and miniature golf facilities.

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March 3, 2016

Encino Homes For Sale

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Encino is a very popular suburban neighborhood with a many residential single family homes. Many have swimming pools and located close to shopping and restaurants. It has easy access because it’s close to major freeways.

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The city has many notable sites of history and recreation centers. Los Encinos State Historic Park in Encino includes the original nine-room de la Ossa Adobe, the Garnier Building, a blacksmith shop, a pond, and a natural spring.

The Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area and park includes a basin and has the Encino Golf Course and the Balboa Golf Course, having a total of 36 golf holes. The Balboa Municipal Golf Course, a short-length golf course, was lengthened in 2008.

The Balboa course is a community gem. It has a banquet room, back nine play, cart rental, club rental, classes, a lighted driving range, a lounge, practice chipping greens, practice putting greens, and a restaurant.

The Balboa Sports Complex in Encino includes a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children’s play area, a community room, a lighted football field, a lighted handball court, an indoor gymnasium without weights and with a capacity for 400 people, an unlighted soccer field, lighted tennis courts, and lighted volleyball courts.

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March 2, 2016

Burbank Homes For Sale

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Home to most of LA’s major movie studios – including Warner Bros, Disney and Universal – ‘the Valley’ is an exercise in sprawl. Car culture was also basically invented in the Valley, which claims to have given birth to the mini-mall, the drive-in movie theater, the drive-in bank and the drive-in restaurant.

Attractions are few and scattered about; Burbank has the studios, and North Hollywood, west of here, is home to a growing arts scene. Studio City, west of Universal, has some superb sushi on Ventura Blvd. At last count there were 21 sushi bars within a six-block radius, which is why some call it LA’s Sushi Row. Studio City’s grooviest shopping and cafe strip can be found on leafy Tujunga Blvd.

Note that temperatures here are usually 20°F (11°C) higher – and pollution levels worse – than in areas further south. But it’s not all bad. In fact, with lower-cost housing and the lack of congestion, the Valley is more laidback and down to earth than elsewhere in the city.

Burbank consists of two distinct areas: a downtown, in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains, and flatlands, at the east end of the San Fernando Valley.

The neighborhood within Burbank set at the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains has a more upscale feeling than the communities to the West of the 5. The yards tend to be spacious, remodeled and many have been added onto. You will also find newer homes which were built after tearing down the original home. West of the 5 is flatter, and feels more middle income. A great community for bike riding, pushing strollers and walking. There is a 2 mile running/biking path along Chandler Blvd. In the Southwest corner of Burbank is the Equestrian community which is well-treed and has many charming homes.

Entertainment has generally replaced the defense industry as the primary employer, who are attracted by the relative safety and security offered by its own police and fire departments, highly rated schools and hospital. Other reasons cited are its small town feel while located only 10 minutes away by car to the hip clubs and restaurants of Hollywood.

The revitalized downtown Burbank provides an urban mix of shopping, dining, and entertainment. The San Fernando Strip is an exclusive mall designed to be a modern urban village, with apartments above the mall. An upscale shopping district is located in the state-of-the-art Empire Center neighborhood. The Burbank Town Center is a retail complex adjacent to the downtown core that was built in two phases between 1991 and 1992.

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February 10, 2016November 12, 2017

Pasadena Homes For Sale

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Most of Pasadena’s homes come with the history of California. For example, Bungalow Heaven is a neighborhood of 800 small craftsman homes that were built from 1900 to 1930. Much of the area became a landmark district in 1989, and annual historic home tours have been conducted since that designation.

The style of the homes in Bungalow Heaven show the effects of the success of the architects Greene and Greene who were building several of their Japanese-inspired bungalows in Pasadena, including the famed Gamble House.

Orange Grove Boulevard is a residential districts in Pasadena that has been a home for the rich and famous since the early 20th century. Because of the number of landmark mansions, the street earned the name Millionaire’s Row.

For over a hundred years Pasadena has been the center for beautiful homes, Arts and Culture, and world famous universities.

The city of Pasadena is located at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, just 11 miles northeast of Downtown Los Angeles. Known as the City of Roses, Pasadena is most famous for its New Year’s Day Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game.

Pasadena has become the most exciting place for nightlife in the San Gabriel Valley. With bustling Old Pasadena’s 200 boutiques, national retailers, restaurants and clubs, chic shopping and dining, Pasadena is an amazing town.

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Home to 500 restaurants serving cuisine from around the world, Pasadena has its culinary credentials, one of only 15 Le Cordon Bleu-affiliated culinary schools in the United States resides here.

Pasadena is a cultural oasis with 14 museums and 11 performing arts organizations, including the Pasadena Playhouse and Norton Simon Museum. Pasadena also boasts the world-renowned California Institute of Technology, whose alumni and faculty have garnered 32 Nobel Prizes. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, site of the Mars exploration missions, is also just a 10-minute drive north.

Also, nearby is the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens which features a large botanical garden of 150 acres.

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On a regular basis, Pasadena is often listed as a top city in the US to live.

The city has a sustainable side manifested in extreme walkability and exceptional public transportation. The historic preservation element is complemented by the vast number of fine surviving California Craftsman 19th- and early 20th-century homes. It’s not unusual here to see families pass down houses for generations.

Added to the city’s progressive planning is an abiding commitment to art, science and scholarship, as the city is home to powerhouses, including the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena City College, Pacific Asia Museum, California School of Culinary Arts and Art Center College of Design. The jobs sector is likewise permeated with technical, engineering, education, pharmaceutical and medical professionals, plus appeal to the creative classes.

The city is family friendly and more relaxed than the assumed high-octane and sometimes gruff Southern California standard. Pasadena has a genuine, friendly, welcoming quality. Abundant verdant parks and green spaces, including a 130-acre recreation area adjacent to the Rose Bowl geared at residents specifically appeal to families.

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February 10, 2016November 12, 2017

North Hollywood Homes For Sale

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North Hollywood is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. It is home to the NoHo Arts District and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The neighborhood is an major transportation hub, and is also home to many television and film studios.

Many small, independent creative studios are based in North Hollywood, including some of the most affordable sets for low-budget film production.

The community is transitioning from a suburban neighborhood into more of a metropolitan center, due in large part to the construction of Metro Stations. North Hollywood is also home to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It has a diverse array of homes for sale.

Universal Studios is located on the border between Hollywood and North Hollywood, easily accessible through one of NoHo’s main streets and Lankershim Blvd.

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The new NoHo Arts District has several modern theaters, art galleries, cafes and shops. The area offers more than 20 professional theatres producing new work and classics, diverse art galleries, public art and professional dance studios and music recording venues.

Coming soon is a $1 billion mixed-use development at Lankershim and Chandler called the “NoHo Art Wave”, next to the Metro Red and Orange line terminals. Also coming is a subway connecting North Hollywood to Hollywood, East Hollywood, Koreatown, Westlake and downtown Los Angeles along the Metro Rail Red Line.

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January 19, 2016

Faircrest Heights Mid City Los Angeles Homes For Sale

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Faircrest Heights is a primarily residential district in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, part of the Crestview neighborhood. ‘Faircrest’ refers to its location on Fairfax Avenue in the eastern part of the Crestview neighborhood.

Faircrest Heights is included in the general neighborhood of Mid City in Los Angeles. It sets in the west of the neighborhood and is comfortably distant from Downtown Los Angeles and providing a bedroom community feel. Faircrest also has a metropolitan feel with the greatest pearls of Los Angeles only a bike ride away.

Faircrest Heights is a solidly middle class community. The houses in Faircrest Heights were built in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and they consist of primarily Spanish Colonial Revival, English Revival, and Minimal Traditional style single family residences, with some small apartment buildings (mostly in the areas north of Pickford Street).

The boundaries of Faircrest Heights are Pico Boulevard on the north, Fairfax Avenue on the east, Washington Boulevard on the south, and La Cienega Boulevard on the west.

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January 17, 2016

Lafayette Square Mid City Los Angeles Homes For Sale

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LaFayette Square consists of eight blocks, centered on St. Charles Place, and situated between Venice Boulevard on the north, Washington Boulevard on the south, Crenshaw Boulevard on the east and West Blvd on the west. It was founded in 1913 and developed during the early 20th century.

Today, Wrought-iron gates surround the neighborhood and help to eliminate commuter traffic; currently the only way into the neighborhood is through St. Charles Place.

There are 236 homes in the neighborhood. It is immediately south of Victoria Park, southeast of West Los Angeles (Crestview and Picfair Village) and immediately north of Wellington Square.

This early developed neighborhood in Los Angeles has a European flair and it was designed as an elegant residential park centered on St. Charles Place—a broad palm tree-lined avenue with a landscaped median. The houses in Lafayette Square reflect residential styles popular during the 1910s and 1920s such as Tudor Revival Architecture, Italianate, Mediterranean Revival, Neo-Federalist, American Craftsman, Spanish Colonial Revival, and American Colonial Revival. Several houses, were designed in the Modern style, exemplifying an important trend in Los Angeles’ architectural development.

Originally, the neighborhood was designed for wealthy families and now-historic houses regularly have 5,000 to 6,000 square feet (600 m²) floor plans, today the average home size is 3,600 square feet (330 m²). Today the neighborhood is a mix of large and medium size homes.

Most of the original properties have period details. Such as, Juliet balconies, mahogany staircases and libraries, sitting rooms, stained glass windows, triple crown molding, soaring ceilings—even four-car garages.

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January 14, 2016

Mid City Los Angeles Homes For Sale

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Despite its directly-next-to-Downtown location, Mid-City manages to feel strikingly suburban. For quiet palm-tree promenades, Mid-City is the place to be.

Mid-City is within Mid-Wilshire in the north, bordered by Westlake to the east, Culver City lies to the west, and to the south is West Adams.

Smaller named areas within the Mid-City neighborhood are Brookside, Crestview, Fremont Place, Lafayette Square, Little Ethiopia, Picfair Village,Wellington Square, and Victoria Park.

Cultural heritage infuses Mid-Wilshire’s museums, music venues, and multitudinous communities. Often referred to as Midtown by LA locals, Mid-Wilshire comprises dozens of neighborhood enclaves, including Koreatown, Little Ethiopia, and contemporary American malls. Walk through first-class farmers’ markets, contemplate art at the LACMA, and marvel at your central location between the Hollywood stars and Downtown’s soaring skyscrapers. Mid-Wilshire’s name says it all—it’s mostly in the middle of everything.

Spanish Revival-style stucco bungalows predominate Mid City. Most were built in the late 1920s or 1930s and have two or three bedrooms. They intermingle with an eclectic assortment of pitch-roofed cottages and tract houses, many painted in rainbow hues or earth tones. Most residences are still single-story, but one also encounters the occasional grandiose two-story replacement for a teardown. A number of remodels, including some second-story additions have been made.

Original houses are replete with details such as hardwood floors, crown moldings, arched doorways, curved ceilings. Many owners have replaced their front lawns with Mediterranean or cactus-and-succulent gardens.

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January 10, 2016

Camarillo Homes For Sale

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Camarillo is primarily a bedroom community and is a mere hour north of Los Angeles and only a half hour away from the beach, Camarillo is nestled below the Conejo foothills amongst green fields cooled by sea breezes. Where more than 300 days of sunshine a year beckon you outdoors, everything from shopping and concerts to weddings and dining is done alfresco here. A town with a rich history extending centuries, Camarillo melds old world charm with new sights, sounds and flavors that will lure you to stay awhile to explore and enjoy so much, so close.

Camarillo is located in Pleasant Valley at the eastern end of the Oxnard Plain, with the Santa Susana Mountains to the north, the Camarillo Hills to the northwest, the Conejo Valley to the east, and the western reaches of the Santa Monica Mountains to the south.

Camarillo and the surrounding area has a temperate, Mediterranean-type climate. Its location in a coastal valley brings mild ocean breezes and temperatures in the 70s throughout most of the year.

In the mid-1990s, multiple large retail centers, including one of California’s largest outlet malls and movie theater were built south of US 101 and west of Carmen Drive. These new retail centers have provided a large influx of cash to the city; from 1993 to 1998 sales tax revenues nearly doubled from approximately $3.5 million to approximately $6.5 million. On April 23, 2009, several new shops and restaurants opened at the Camarillo Premium Outlets, designated “The Promenade”.

The Pleasant Valley Recreation & Park District is located in and around the City of Camarillo, serves a population of over 70,000 and covers an area approximately 45 square miles. It has grown from one park and 30 acres to 27 parks and over 300 acres since its inception in 1962.

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The single most important reason to live in Camarillo is the city’s park and community resources that make Camarillo one of the best cities in which to live. With excellent schools, low crime, and local business growth, the highlight is the overwhelming number of parks and locations for recreation.

Aldolfo Park	Arneill Ranch Park
Birchview Park	Bob Kildee Community Park
Calleguas Creek	Camarillo Grove Park
Carmenita Park	Charter Oak Park
Community Center Park	Dos Caminos Park
Encanto Park	Foothill Park
Freedom Park	Heritage Park
Laurelwood Park	Lokker Park
Mission Oaks Park	Nancy Bush Park
Pitts Ranch Park	Pleasant Valley Fields
Quito Park	Springville Park
Trailside Park	Valle Lindo Park
Woodcreek Park	Woodside Park

Facilities

Aquatic Center	Auditorium
Classrooms	Community Center
Dirt BMX Track	Equestrian Center
Freedom Center	Freedom Gym
Roller Hockey Rink	R/C Track
Senior Center	Skatepark

Within the District, a variety of recreational facilities exist including:

Senior Center
Only Public Indoor Aquatic Center in Ventura County
Community Center
Dog Parks
Lighted Ball Fields
Tennis Courts
Running Track
Walking Paths
Soccer Fields
Hiking Trails
Picnic Shelters
Children’s Play Equipment
Skatepark
Barbecue Areas

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