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More details on mixed use plan for LA Times buildings

latimes-buildings-from-city.jpg Offices and retail in the older buildings, while it looks like the 1970s corporate side will be razed for apartments.

Register land already flipped, making papers a real bargain

oc-register-bldg.jpg After sale of the real estate, the net cost for buying the OC Register and Riverside's Press-Enterprise is just $15.8 million.

LA Times printing plant land put up for sale

latimes-olympicplant.jpg Chicago's Tribune Media wants to cash in on the hot real estate market in downtown Los Angeles.

BuzzFeed walks away from Arts District move

ford-factory-shorenstein.jpg The web operation is still looking for the right LA headquarters, but for now BuzzFeed Motion Pictures is moving to Siren Studios.

LA's last real estate trophy?

Last_Real_Estate_Trophy_thr.jpg "This is as good as it gets," says real estate broker Jeff Hyland: 157 acres on the ridge line above Beverly Hills.

Development notes: Crossroads of the World, Windsor Square

Crossroads-Curbed.jpg One of Hollywood's most visible landmarks is the site of a proposed mega-project.

Villaraigosa buys in Beachwood Canyon for $2.5 million

villaraigosa-home.jpg A year ago friends were saying the former mayor had no assets and was living in an apartment. Now he buys in the Hollywood Hills.

Bob Hope estate in Toluca Lake back on the market

Bob_Hope_Estate_2014.jpg This time I guess it's a bargain: just $23 million, cut $4.5 million since 2013.

Ray Bradbury's Westside home is now a teardown*

bradbury-demolish-jkt.jpg The house is mostly gone already. Architect Thom Mayne may be the owner.

Tribune plans to 'redevelop' LA Times buildings

latimes-building-aerial-tig.jpg Chicago is seeking a partner to turn the corner of 1st and Spring into some sort of big mixed-use project.

Chinese millionaires are buying mansions in Arcadia

arcadia-bloomberg.jpg Bloomberg Businessweek examines the latest influx of Chinese capital to transform a corner of the San Gabriel Valley.

Renderings of three new residential high rises for DTLA

Broadway-Olympic-lofts.jpg There goes the view of the Jesus Saves neon sign and the rooftop panorama from the Ace Hotel.

LA Times doubles down on Hot Property

hot-property-grab.jpg The Hot Property blog is back on the A-list at LA Times.com, with a new hire and a newsroom memo to explain it all.

And the Garcettis sell their Silver Lake house

garcetti-home-sl-sold.jpg The buyer is reportedly Anthony Gonzalez of the band M83. No sales price has been reported yet.
bradbury-home-front.jpg The Cheviot Drive home where Ray Bradbury lived and wrote for 50 years has been listed for sale at $1.495 million. It's open on Sunday.

Former Robinsons in BH for sale again

Thumbnail image for robinsons-bh-hess.jpg The site at 9900 Wilshire Boulevard, just west of the Beverly Hilton hotel, would come fully approved for construction of a luxury condo project, says the LA Times.

Rich of the world once again investing in LA homes

blue-jay-way-home-bloomberg.jpg California mansions are being bought by Chinese families, foreign tycoons and U.S. celebrities as a hedge against currency and stock market disasters or the vicissitudes of politics, Bloomberg Luxury says.

Mercedes will move into shuttered Boeing plant in Long Beach

Mercedes-Benz USA has leased more than one million square feet at the former Boeing 717 plant in East Long Beach that closed in 2006. It's being called a landmark deal in the local real estate market.

Rupert Murdoch buys Bel-Air vineyard and estate

moraga-vineyard.jpg The media mogul and possible buyer of the LA Times announced via Twitter that he has bought the Moraga estate on the Bel-Air ridge that faces across the 405 freeway at the Getty Center. Check out his tweet.

Most expensive downtown condo in 2012: $4 million

eastern-columbia-glow-lao.jpg There were 354 sales of lofts and condos in greater Downtown LA's top 30 buildings last year, ranging in price from $120,000 to $ 4 million. A new report pegs the average at about $600,000, or $355 per square foot.

First big Wilshire church no longer for sale

wilshire-chr-church-googlee.jpg The Wilshire Christian Church, built from 1925-27 on the northeast corner of Wilshire and Normandie, will become the new home of Oasis Christian Church.

Hope compound in Toluca Lake coming on the market *

bob-hope-estate-google.jpg The 1.3-acre estate on Moorpark Street, built for Bob and Dolores Hope in 1939, has never changed hands. We're calling it the most celebrity-infused property left in the San Fernando Valley.

Wilshire and Barrington condo project shrinks in size

wilshire-barrington-curbed.jpg The 28-story condo tower once proposed for the vacant northeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Barrington Avenue has been downscaled to a six-story apartment building.

Broadway's United Artists sold, may become hotel

ua-broadway-brighamyen.jpg The landmarked United Artists Theater at the south end of Downtown's Broadway movie palace district has been sold to Greenfield Partners, a national hotel developer and real estate investment company.

Historic Wilshire church for sale

wilshire-church-for-sale.jpg You don't see this every day, even in Los Angeles. A big ol' yellow For Sale sign on a church, and not just any church.

Rizzo's house falls out of escrow

The Huntington Beach home owned by former Bell city administrator Robert Rizzo is back on the market.
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