When Howard Gleicher, a resident of the Orange County suburbs, decided to buy a four bedroom condominium in The Century, it was with a long-term plan in mind. Sure, the investment manager needed an immediate crash pad in Los Angeles to manage the increasing amount...
Westfield Century City is getting an $800M transformation that will feature Nordstrom’s three-level Los Angeles flagship store featuring its latest design concepts, a completely remodeled three-level Bloomingdale’s, a brand-new two-level Macy’s, as well as the world-renowned Eataly. The new Century City experience will include 422,000...
Seven years ago when the housing bubble burst, it nearly took down Wall Street and the entire U.S. economy. This week, the concern was the reverse: That the prospect of an extended dive in the stock market, or even continued volatility, might spook buyers and sellers...
Housing prices in Los Angeles are still rising and expected to keep rising for at least a few more years, experts have forecast, and the latest report from real estate firm Douglas Elliman has the crazy new numbers to show it. In an overview of...
In many of the fancier neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles, median housing prices have been rising and reaching new highs. But in the last three months of 2015, there was one neighborhood that did a much more brisk luxury real estate business than the rest: Pacific...
When, as the holiday lyrics have it, “the weather outside is frightful,” that makes it a good time to start planning the coming year’s home improvement projects. If you wait for ideal weather conditions to begin laying out your plans, you’re likely to wind up...
SOURCE URL:www.wsj.com/articles/developers-sell-century-citys-glamorous-past-1508422128 Movie star Burt Lancaster had a condominium in Century City, as did Ruth and Elliot Handler, co-founders of the Mattel toy company. Ronald Reagan, while he was president, maintained his “Western White House” there. Today, celebrities including actor Matthew Perry and chef Nobu Matsuhisa...
Just as the stock market soared in 2017, rich and famous folk bought and sold residential properties coast to coast at dizzying, previously unheard of high prices. Indeed, Taylor Swift’s $18 million acquisition of a downtown New York City townhouse and Matthew Perry’s $20 million purchase of...
The Westwood/Century City area owes much of its history to Edwin and Harold Sans, who not only sold the city the 375-acre plot of land that would become UCLA at a discounted rate in 1925 but also developed Westwood Village. Students, families and celebrities all flocked...