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Celebrity real estate always gets attention, but sometimes the most interesting part of a famous home is not who owned it. It is what the pricing history says about the market. The Beverly Hills-area estate reportedly owned by Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, located at 2571 Wallingford Drive in Beverly Hills , has become a […]

By Jacob Lavian | Los Angeles Real Estate Advisor | jacoblavian.com Picture this. You’ve owned a 12-unit apartment building in Silver Lake for nineteen years. You bought it for $1.1 million. You managed it through rent freezes, through COVID, through the RSO compliance headaches that seemed to multiply every year. You finally decide it’s time.

By Jacob Lavian | Los Angeles Real Estate Advisor | jacoblavian.com You’ve been thinking about it for a while. Maybe you own a home already. Maybe you’ve been watching property values climb for years and you’re ready to stop watching and start owning income-producing real estate. Buying an apartment building in Los Angeles is one

Beverly Hills is one of the strongest luxury real estate markets in Los Angeles, but even in 90210, buyers are not blindly paying whatever a seller asks. That is the real story behind several recent Beverly Hills sales. These were not ordinary homes. They included large estates, architectural properties, view homes, gated residences, and luxury

By Jacob Lavian, Los Angeles Real Estate Advisor If you own a home in Los Angeles and you’ve started thinking seriously about buying an investment property — a small apartment building, a duplex, a fourplex — you’ve probably run into two terms that seem straightforward until you try to use them: cap rate and cash-on-cash

By Jacob Lavian, Los Angeles Real Estate Advisor So you’re thinking about buying an apartment building in Los Angeles. You’ve run the numbers, you understand the gross rent multiplier, and you’re asking yourself the question every first-time multifamily buyer eventually lands on: do I actually need a property management company? It’s a fair question —

In Sherman Oaks, sellers can still get deals done — but these four April closings make one thing pretty clear: buyers were not rewarding aggressive pricing just because a home sat in a desirable pocket. Different streets, different price points, different styles, same outcome. The number had to come down before the market finally said

Garage conversions have become one of the hottest ideas in residential real estate. On paper, the pitch sounds easy: take a space that is already built, turn it into a livable unit, and add more usable square footage to the property. A lot of owners immediately jump to the same conclusion: if homes in the

Bel Air March 2026 Market Report March gave us a small but useful snapshot of the upper end of the Bel Air market. These five closings show a clear pattern: buyers were active, but they were selective. Homes that were positioned correctly moved. Homes that came out too high usually had to adjust. That matters