Westside DIGS pulls back that curtain for me and invites readers to look inside the most luxurious homes on the Westside — from Playa Vista, Playa del Rey, Marina del Rey, and Venice to Santa Monica, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu.
Irene Dazzan-Palmer discusses getting started in real estate and how that grew into a family business with her son Sandro Dazzan. Now being one of the top real estate teams in Malibu with Coldwell Banker, Irene discusses what make Malibu so special.
ON THE COVER Modern Marvel: finding all the comforts of home in a luxurious property. Create memories of a perfect Manhattan Beach abode presented by Ed Kaminsky of Kaminsky Real Estate Group.
Former Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni listing their South Bay Manhattan Beach for $9.8 million—40% more than what they bought it for in 2013. Ed Kaminsky of the Kaminsky Real Estate Group & SportStar Relocation was the Listing Agent.
Robb and Bryn Stroyke were born to be in the real estate business. The brothers and partners in Stroyke Properties—the boutique real estate firm in Manhattan Beach specializing in South Bay beach properties—were, at least initially, educated at their parents’ knees.
Allow me to introduce Issue #1 of Westside DIGS — the only luxury real estate magazine and target audience media platform of its kind serving the affluent neighborhoods of Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Santa Monica, Venice, Marina del Rey, Playa del Rey and Playa Vista.
Santiago Arana of the Agent immigrated from Bolivia and built himself into one of the top realtors on the Westside, here we ask him how it all began.
January 2015 marked the 35th consecutive month in which California’s median sale price has increased on a year-over-year basis according to CoreLogic DataQuick. The January 2015 median price was 22.3% lower thank California’s peak median price of $484,000, reach in the Spring of 2007, and it was 70.1% higher than the post-peak low of $221,000 in April 2009.
South Bay native Chris Adlam has specialized in residential home sales since 1987. Today, as one of the top realtors for Vista Sotheby’s International Realty, he’s the go-to guy when it comes to the South Bay—and the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in particular—real estate scene.
