Los Angeles Real Estate Blog & Market Updates

Multiple offers on a Los Angeles home do not automatically mean the highest price wins. The strongest offer is the one with the best combination of price, terms, contingencies, and certainty of closing. Sellers need to evaluate the full picture, and buyers need a strategy that goes beyond just raising their number.

The Residences at Sportsmen's Lodge is a 520-unit, $500 million mixed-use development rising at Ventura and Coldwater in Studio City, with construction expected to run through 2027. For Studio City and Sherman Oaks homeowners, the closer your home sits to the site, the more you will feel both the short-term construction disruption and the longer-term amenity and walkability lift once the project delivers.

Most buyers in Los Angeles can go from starting the process to keys in hand in about 60 to 100 days, depending on preparation and how specific their search criteria are. The biggest factors that slow things down are skipping pre-approval upfront and making large purchases during escrow.

A quick update for those purchasing real estate through an entity (LLC/trust) using all cash or private financing. The FinCEN Residential Real Estate Rule (RRE), went into effect March 1, 2026, requiring mandatory reporting of non-financed residential property transfers involving legal entities, trusts, or LLCs to combat money laundering.

Real estate transactions are complex. There are title issues, inspection surprises, contractor questions, neighbor disputes, permit problems, HOA complications, appraisal gaps, and a hundred other things that can come up between the moment you decide to buy or sell and the moment you get your keys or your check. The question is not whether problems will come up. They always do. The question is whether your agent is going to solve them or hand them back to you. I am Leegie Par