Designed as a place for family and guests to gather comfortably at the beach, the architectural home at 2415 Manhattan Avenue has also been keenly crafted with forward-thinking elements to distinguish it from other well-heeled area homes.
Decades after entering the burgeoning real estate scene of the South Bay in the late 1980s, Ed Kaminsky has seen just about everything in the business. He consistently sells over 100 properties a year and has created a slew of companies in the real estate sphere.
Sleepy Hollow is a mellow neighborhood in Hermosa Beach—a quiet, under-the-radar pocket of about 7 blocks, tucked west of Valley Drive and south of leafy and spacious Valley Park. Old-growth California trees and friendly families populate the area, and casual neighborhood get-togethers are common.
The scene is particularly vivid at 317 Rocky Point where privacy reigns and a fresh, graceful home—approximately 3,800 square feet, with 3 bedrooms and 3 and 1/2 bathrooms—has been designed to keep you immersed in its vision from morning until after dark.
Dr. Godfrey Pernell, who would serve multiple terms as mayor of Rolling Hills, and his wife Beverly purchased Flying Mane Road, the approximately 1.16-acre property in 1950 after being driven to the remote site, where they paced off the lot lines of their forever home.
Located along 11th Street, there’s an inviting six-bedroom and six-bathroom house, completed in 2016, that showcases how relaxed family living can be neatly twined with a freshly modern, coastal elegance—and lots of year-round outdoor living.
When walking into 2804 The Strand, be sure to look at the ground. Etched in the earthy travertine stone are the Japanese symbols for Peaceful. The message, written in pale white on tan, is subtle, like the property itself—a well-crafted, sunlit world of placid living in the midst of top-of-the-world ocean views.
About 10 years ago Stephen Haw saw the future and it was specialization. The longtime real estate agent noted there were increasingly distinct groups of buyers and sellers coming to Palos Verdes and the Beach Cities, where the majority of his business is concentrated
For the world traveler, a Beverly Hills-born Los Angeles native who lived in Paris and the Middle East along the way, coming home to the Beach Cities and digging into real estate meant doing it her way.
A drive along Marguerite Drive in Rancho Palos Verdes is like watching a postcard from the coast come to life. There are grand estates bathed in golden light, and the backdrop is pure California
It’s been an impressive run of growth for Cindy Ambuehl’s group, which the Los Angeles super-agent launched two years ago after over a decade of building her A-list real estate name as a sole agent.
Located in Mahón Bay, on the Balearic Island of Menorca, Spain, a building of strict modern bearing offers an insurgency of space and, beyond its serene monochromatic walls, a halo of sun and sky.
