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Love Wins in SoCal: The Ultimate Pride Events 2025 Summer Calendar

Photo Credit: Envato Elements Summer is the perfect time to celebrate love, diversity, and community—and Southern California is the place to do it! In this ultimate guide to the best Pride events across the region, you’ll find key details about festivals, parades, concerts, and parties happening from June through September. Whether you’re looking for large-scale […]

Absorption Rate Analysis – May 2025: Sometimes Stable Terrain Deserves a Closer Look

If you’ve stepped away from our absorption rate analysis for a few months, you could easily look at May’s stats and think nothing’s really changed. It’s true, most of our neighborhoods have spent months hovering roughly around the same absorption rate range. Here’s a town hopping up a percentage point or two. There’s a neighborhood […]

LA Home Spotlight: Hollyhock House

A Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece loved by everyone. Almost everyone. Featured image credit: Codera23 Perched inconspicuously atop the 36-acre hilltop of Barnsdall Art Park, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House is a zenith of Los Angeles architecture. Wright designed the home at the behest of oil heiress Aline Barnsdall with construction beginning in 1921. Following a […]

The Salton Sea Remains One of California’s Biggest Mistakes. Here’s How It’s Trying to Fix It.

Could ambitious plans return this ecological disaster to an oasis? Featured image credit: Geographer At 35 miles long and 15 miles wide, the Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Yet, its problems are much bigger than its 343 square miles could ever hope to contain. We’re talking an environmental disaster of epic proportions, choking people […]

Absorption Rate Analysis – April 2025: A Busy Month Influences a Divided Housing Market

Where does your neighborhood stand after a particularly divisive month? Despite national economic concerns, April was a remarkable month at JohnHart Real Estate as our agents doubled down on their determination, selling significantly more homes than in March. And that inexhaustible grind was felt in April’s absorption rates. Following January’s unanimous drop, February’s unanimous surge, […]