California Real Estate
California Real Estate expert and California Home + Design contributor Philip Ferrato keeps an eye on the local real estate market to bring you the most noteworthy listings. A long-term observer of California's historic and innovative real estate, residential architecture and interior design, Ferrato blogs about significant properties--the interesting and the unrecognized, the high and the low--as they show up for sale on the market.
We looked online and found 78 houses with pools open on Sunday, May 13 in LA County. A quick scan of the listings brought us to these two houses, both sort of awful and sort of fabulous, for people who like their bling in espresso-stained wood and indoor water features. Both are great places for 200 of your best friends on a warm weekend night.
Three prime examples of the uniquely San Franciscan full-floor flat, these Post-Victorians come with their own quirks. Sometimes, they can seem long and narrow, but also offer a lot in their generous proportions, traditional details, and privacy.
One of San Francisco's oldest extant farmhouses is on the market— and turns into a history lesson.
The realtor doesn't come right and say "tear me down" but uses coded brokerbabble— "Unique opportunity to create your own estate on over 1/3 acre in prime Beverly Hills…" We can see it in a 21st-Century remake of the noir classic "Sunset Boulevard." You can go see it before it disappears.
Cutting-edge when it was finished in 2000, 369 Upper Terrace is a renovated Mid-Century with views to the Pacific Ocean. It still looks great. If you have time for one open house this weekend, this is it.
Whether you call them Spanish, Mediterranean, or Andalucian, these stucco houses were all the rage in 1920s Los Angeles, in a style filtering through economic levels from grand mansions to apartment houses. Here are three single-family houses open this Sunday, April 22— a stucco cottage in Silver L
