Real Estate

SAN FRANCISCO —  Mayor London Breed may have lost reelection, but after more than six years at the helm of one of America’s most iconic cities, she says she will leave office next month as a champion. “No matter what the results said, I’m still a winner,” Breed said in an interview this week. “The fact […]

The fate of a large proposed affordable-housing development along Venice’s famed canals remains murky this week after one regulatory decision cleared the way for final approval just as another left it all but dead. The continued uncertainty adds to the eight years of public debate over the Venice Dell project, which aims to provide 120

For 15 years, it was a ritual that kept Andrés Cortes close to his beloved abuelita. He would collect the rent from the other four tenants of her Cypress Park rental property, add his own and deliver the envelope in person to the family homestead a few blocks away. She’d ask for news of the

Rising steeply above a ravine in the Hollywood Hills, Nina and Andreas Grueter’s concrete home conjures a villain’s lair in a James Bond thriller — John Lautner’s Brutalist Elrod House in “Diamonds Are Forever” comes to mind — with the nearby Hollywood sign adding to its cinematic allure. For some, a narrow hillside lot might

The Facebook post seemed straightforward enough, offering up a newly built ADU rental in Burbank. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, 1,000 square feet. A private yard. Finishes “you wouldn’t find in any other ADU.” The price? $4,500 per month. “Dam, ya’ll need to chill out!! $4,500 for an ADU??” “Let the rich become richer having the

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted to boost housing development in existing high-density residential neighborhoods and along commercial corridors, while leaving single-family zones largely untouched. In a 15-0 vote, the council asked the city attorney to draft an ordinance to carry out that plan, which provides incentives to build both market rate and

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted to approve an ambitious set of program guidelines for spending hundreds of millions of dollars collected under the city’s Measure ULA tax, also known as the mansion tax. The tax on the sale of multimillion-dollar properties has collected about $480 million since it was implemented in April

The historic Norms on La Cienega Boulevard will not be changed into a fast-food chicken joint, according to the building’s owner. Raising Cane’s, the restaurant chain that owns the iconic Googie-style diner, had planned to convert the Norms location into one of its chicken-strips locations when Norms’ lease lapsed at the end of 2026. But

In Los Angeles, a city desperate for homeless housing, one project that will fill some of that need has been unconscionably delayed for years. The City Council has already approved it twice, most recently two years ago. This week, city officials have a chance to show they are serious about getting that project built. On

The Los Angeles City Council is considering changing the way it sets annual allowable increases for rent-controlled properties for the first time in nearly 40 years. That’s good. The law needs to do more to prevent price shocks for tenants during periods of high inflation while ensuring landlords can recoup the costs of managing their