I work with many potential home buyers that are just starting their search. Many of them are from out of the area or live locally and are looking to own instead of rent but, unfortunately, many find out that their price range makes it a real challenge to find something that works for them. As m
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03/29/2011
Information from the California Department of Education on local schools The Academic Performance Index (API), the cornerstone of the state's Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999, is an achievement gauge for California public schools based on standardized test results. The index assigns a sc
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03/28/2011
March 24th, 2011 For those of us that live in the South Bay we often want to know just how living oceanfront on The Strand feels. Whether you're actively searching for a home in Hermosa Beach or are just curious to see what that oceanfront home is like, here's your chance. This weeks public open
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03/25/2011
Granted that much of the country would consider any sale in Manhattan Beach CA a luxury sale with median home prices over $1,000,000 but a good local indicator of the luxury home marketis reflected in sales over $2,000,000. While the inventory of luxury homes over the past few years has dropped
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03/24/2011
I have a new ocean view listing coming on the market in Redondo Beach and as is often the case, we've had to push out the date that we intend to bring it on the market. The original plan was to list next week but we've postponed it by a week. This isn't usual of course as this happens as final
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03/24/2011
March 23rd, 2011 Inventory of bank owned homes, or REOs, has come down signficantly since February. As of February 7th there were 33 bank owned homes, condos and townhomes on the market in Torrance and as of today that number has gone down to 17 active listings. Both traditional home buyers and
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03/23/2011
I've yet to write a post involving Activerain's scoring system without the inevitable "it's not about the points" responses. Well I just can't help it...I'm a goal oriented person and I love the points. Without question it helps keeps me blogging and we all know the benefits of that, but withou
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03/23/2011
Manhattan Beachhas 5 distinct areas but when most people envision luxury beach living in Southern California they are picturing the Sand Section of Manhattan Beach. The sand section stretches from Hermosa Beach to the South to El Porto, or North Manhattan as the city is now calling it, to the no
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03/18/2011
Inventory of bank owned homes, short sale listings and pre foreclosures seems to be dwindling just a bit as several listings have gone into escrow in the past few weeks. Currently there are 9 homes on the market in Manhattan Beach with 8 of the 9 being single family homes and 1 a court home in M
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03/07/2011
Redondo Beach open houses - March 5th and 6th There are an abundance of open houses to take a look at this week with a variety of housing options and homes for sale in Redondo Beach. Everything from 1 bedroom ocean view condos in The Village and Seascape to fantastic 5 bedroom homes just blocks
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03/05/2011
