In January 1945, Los Angeles publication Arts + Architecture announced the Case Study House program, with the goal to create and promote cutting-edge—and accessible—home design models in anticipation of returning American G.I.s, and with them, the need for good residential housing that could be produced on a mass scale.
After only five years in real estate, Bjorn Farrugia’s made his mark at prestige firm Hilton & Hyland, where he’s captured the highest sales volume accolades for the past two years, becoming one of the brokerage’s top-producing agents.
Santiago Arana of The Agency is has been on The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 list of LA’s Top 30 Real Estate Agents for the last seven years. From busboy to a nationally ranked real estate agent, the managing partner of The Agency exemplifies an unrelenting will to succeed.
A fresh contemporary home with show-stopping views offers a stylish retreat in Pacific Palisades, then populated by only about 100 homes.
It’s one thing to reach the top of your field, quite another to stay there for years. For Gayle Probst, whose name is a familiar one in the world of Palos Verdes Peninsula real estate, the formula has to do with the love of her job and a Midwestern work ethic that never quits.
This year celebrates 20 years of rather stunning success with Meridith Baer Home, a company she spun from her imagination and two hands. In the late 1990s, Baer, then an actress and scriptwriter, was in between rental homes.
In 2009, Hugh Evans III teamed up with four partners to form Partners Trust. The group—Evans, Richard Stearns, Nick Segal, F. Ron Smith and David Findley—was looking to create an alternative to the existing agency model, where agents worked independently under a company banner.
