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Weekly writing on the neighborhoods, the buildings and the market itself. No fluff, no recycled press releases.

Los Angeles is not one market. It is forty. A first guide to choosing the right neighborhood, from Malibu to Hancock Park to the towers of the Wilshire Corridor.
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A plain accounting of the Los Angeles transfer tax at its current thresholds, the cliff at each line, and where the city boundary actually falls.
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The phrase covers at least four different arrangements, with different rules, different paperwork and different consequences for the price.
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Monthly dues buy a share in the corporation that owns the roof, the elevators and the insurance, and the listed figure is rarely the whole cost.
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Why a few blocks above the Sunset Strip trade at a premium the rest of the hills do not, and what actually drives the number.
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