Attention, Attention we’re starting to get more inventories of homes to sell. Over the last 2 weeks about 30 new homes came on the market. I hope it keeps up. It makes for a healthier market. Laguna Beach Market Analysis by Price 2013 Laguna Beach Sold Properties by Month 2013

A from the studs rebuilt 4 bdm/4bth 3,000 sqft ocean view house on Camino Capistrano in Dana Point for $1.7m. Besides ocean views from most of the house it has a great roof patio with a 360 degree view of coastline and mountains. It was bought last year by the seller to live in. They [...]

Still crazy – low inventory (but recently starting to see increase in active listings), lots of pocket listings, multiple offers, and price increases

  Horst Noppenberger, one of today’s top architects in Laguna and a former associate of Fred’s, will be holding a retrospective on Fred Briggs who was one of the early, pioneering, modern architects in Southern California. He was best known for completing a large body of contemporary projects that included single family homes, libraries and [...]

The more I do these Laguna human interest stories the more I’m interested in people and families that have shaped our blessed town by designing the most iconic buildings and landscapes that Laguna is known for. Fred Briggs is one of those people and is probably one to the best keep secrets in town. From [...]

Laguna Beach gets all its water from somewhere else.  Scary when you think about it. But how we got the water from other places during Laguna’s start up years is quite a colorful story with colorful people. One such character is Gavy Cravath, who was such a good baseball player that it took Babe Ruth [...]

Laguna Friends of Architecture will be hosting an introduction on “Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs” by the well known architectural historian Alan Hess, plus the screening of “Desert Utopia” a documentary film from Design OnScreen. This film features rarely seen interviews with notable architects and many examples of Post-WWII modernism in Palm Springs, displaying design [...]