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Malibu’s famous Billionaire’s Beach set a new home sale record with a $110 Million deal – currently the most expensive home sale ever in Los Angeles County.


Cruise along Zumirez Drive on Point Dume and one finds themselves on a golden-ticket street in Malibu. It’s a place prized for its private access to exquisite beachfront, epic surf breaks, and a community of well-heeled leisured privacy. That and its collection of beautiful homes.

ON THE COVER Green Dream: Each day’s a vacation at this tranquil, eco-friendly Malibu compound presented by James Respondek of Sotheby’s International Realty.

It was the mid-1980s when Ed Kaminsky, a transplant from Ohio who was working in the jewelry business, decided to try his hand in real estate. Dominating luxury real estate in the South Bay, selling over 100 properties a year, Ed Kaminsky is engaged in businesses beyond selling properties.

ON THE COVER Pristine Planatation: A chic seaside home in Hermosa Beach presented by Lynne Lear of Strand Hill | Christie’s International Real Estate.


Now California’s largest operator of new and used books, along with vinyl records, the Last Bookstore runs a brisk but selective buy-sell-trade business.


At the new westdrift Manhattan Beach, West Coast meets East Coast in a celebration of the South Bay beach city founded by a New Yorker from a borough of the same name.

Since opening in 2011, Jeffrey Faust and Woogene Lee’s intimate restaurant fundamental LA has emerged as a beloved Westwood institution thanks to its casual counter-service lunch, refined full-service dinner and eclectic wine selection. Now Faust and Lee have expanded their concept with fundamental DTLA, complete with the addition of breakfast service featuring a wide selection of pastries and baked goods crafted in-house, plus a bar that’s destined to become the area’s next go-to gathering spot.