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Always one to know how to strike a deal, James Respondek got his start in real estate at the age of 18, after he bought his first property in Australia and later sold for almost double of the original price. He then made his way back to the United States, settling in the Palisades area in the late 1970s, making it both his home and chosen real estate market.
John Hathorn, of Pence Hathorn Silver Partners Trust, knows the Westside and its properties like the back of his hand, which, given that it’s where he was raised, is not surprising. This native touch is an increasing rarity these days.
Current Managing Director for RE/MAX Abbot Kinney, Colin Jacobs oversees the real estate sales business, as well as mentoring his team. And, in keeping with this passion for philanthropic causes, he devotes many hours to helping advise his clients on their non-profit foundations.
After rising to the top in a successful sales career, Keith Kyle found his true passion in real estate—and in the South Bay. A Hermosa Beach resident for 17 years, Kyle has cultivated a client-driven philosophy focused on building long-term relationships.
Courtney Self started Hunter Mason Realty a mere five years ago after a 28-year sales career that started right out of high school. South Bay DIGS chats with this Realtor of the People about why she loves multi-family real estate, first-time homebuyers and Old Town Torrance.
Overseeing up to 30 potential properties in various states of completion each week, Jeff Marshall—owner and principal of one of California’s leading home staging operations, Marshall Design Group—is on the speed dial of real-estate agents statewide. Here, a conversation with the industry hot property.
Decorative-art titan Tony Duquette was an unabashed maximalist who applied his from-the-gut touch to everything from rapturous interiors for billionaire clients such as Doris Duke, J. Paul Getty, and David O. Selznick, to bold jewelry, to museum exhibitions at the likes of the Louvre.
In 1958, Douglas Maupin moved to the South Bay with his family. Twenty years later, he began selling residential properties in the area. South Bay DIGS chats with this easygoing surfer about his decades-long adventures in local real estate and land development.
It’s not every day that an opportunity to take a private art lesson from an instructor with bona fide bloodlines to famed French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir presents itself.
Manhattan Beach realtor Matt Pernice represents buyers and sellers of South Bay homes and apartment buildings. South Bay DIGS chats with this water-loving family man about the local market, its rising residential real estate prices and his favorite outdoor activities.
South Bay DIGS stops by Eyedentity Optique in Riviera Village for a conversation with owner and optician David Smith.
