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.
For some, home can be an elusive concept, referring to a time or place, perhaps more than one, where we’ve felt most connected, at ease, or ourselves. For Igor Nastaskin, home is specific: It’s the Hollywood Riviera in the South Bay, where he’s lived since the 1990s, raising a family and building a flourishing real estate business along the way.
In the last six years, the two agents have traveled many roads together and recently passed yet another marker with a big brokerage move from RE/MAX Estate Properties to Corcoran Global Living.
Built by Clifford Reid once belonged to renowned actress Rosemary DeCamp and her husband, Torrance Superior Court Judge John Shidler, now on the market, this iconic property is considered by many to be a jewel of the Hollywood Riviera.
The sunlit Palos Verdes villa offered by Megan Neel—approximately 11,000 square feet in size—is perched on approximately 200 feet of peninsula oceanfront, and no matter where one roams on the five-bedroom property, one is always aware of this happy fact.
ON THE COVER A Grand Embrace: At this exclusive Palos Verdes villa, enduring coastal aesthetics make the most of a majestic natural setting offered by Megan Neel of RE/MAX Estate Properties.
Lots of ocean views and many comfortable spots to gather with family and friends. There’s privacy and a quality of construction. In this case, all within an efficient footprint of about 3,330 square feet on The Strand.
ON THE COVER A Welcome Vision: Privacy and beachside elegance make for a comfortable home along the North Hermosa Strand presented by Susan Sweeney of RE/MAX Estate Properties.
Among the first homes built in fledgling Palos Verdes Estates was a Spanish Revival villa architected by Winchton Risley, a model residence completed in 1926 with a red clay tile roof, white stucco exterior and a spacious courtyard flanked by two wings.
When a starkly geometric home appeared on 10th Street in Manhattan Beach in the mid-1990s, it was a bright, rare flash of Modernism in a town flush with tile-roof Mediterraneans and quaint beach bungalows.
ON THE COVER Modern Update: A refreshed Pat Killen home offers the essence of Manhattan Beach living presented by Beth Morrissey of RE/MAX Estate Properties.
