August 2024 was a great month for home buyers according to our absorption rate stats. While it wasn’t one of those months with a near-unanimous pull toward the buyer’s favor, the surges were (mostly) modest. And the drops tended to be much more significant, plunging certain communities into absorption rate depths we haven’t seen in […]
Featured image credit: Warner Brothers We like to dispel the myth that Los Angeles real estate is scary. But in this case, we might have to eat our words. The house from the classic 1982 horror film Poltergeist hit the market just a few weeks ago. And it’s already found its buyer. The single-family home […]
Featured image credit: A Taste of Old Town Monrovia We hope you’re hungry. Because JohnHart is proud to be a sponsor of the 10th annual Taste of Oldtown Monrovia event on Sunday, October 13. And besides bringing our appetite, we’re bringing a heaping helping of community spirit. Historically, the event has been one of the […]
If Hollywood had a royal family, Hutton Wilkinson would certainly be part of it. His roots in Los Angeles reach back to 1877. Pasadena was founded by his great grandfather. And he’s rubbed elbows with virtually any family who provided the foundation stones for the very ground we stand on today. Yet, Wilkinson’s renown has […]
Featured image credit: Torti Gallas + Partners You’ve heard it’s not easy being green… but it isn’t cheap either. At least judging by the price tag on a huge revamp project headed to Exposition Park beginning later this year. In preparation for Los Angeles hosting the 2028 Summer Olympic games, the state of California has […]
Featured image credit: Cmiller2001 Living in modern Los Angeles, it can sometimes be hard to remember that the American Old West wasn’t just a cinematic fairytale. But not only did those frontier days actually happen… they happened not too long ago. To give you some context, legend of the American West Wyatt Earp worked for […]
Is it better to rent out or list homes for sale in California? You’d be surprised how much this question comes up. There’s no denying that property is a solid investment. But when you’ve generated enough wealth to consider retiring your primary residence to an investment property, it’s time to make that crucial choice. Is […]
Remember those skull-and-crossbones style warnings printed on record sleeves that ominously warned that “home taping is killing music”? If only they could have foreseen the digital grim reaper that’s descended on physical media over the last decade or so. Streaming still hasn’t taken enough of a shape for us to reliably know for sure where […]
Featured image credit: Anonymous9119 We’ve had fun looking deep into LA’s history for our Los Angeles Architecture 101 series, but today we’re going to give our eyes a bit of a rest and look at something a little closer in the rearview mirror. We’re talking about a style so current that it’s beyond modern… it’s […]
At first glance, July seemed like a rebound month for LA’s absorption rates (with a few outliers, of course). But what’s not obvious by simply looking at the statistics is that we sold more homes in nearly every market in July than we did in June. Summertime is often one of the hottest times for […]
