I have spent the past few days watching the terrible fires currently devastating Malibu and other areas in Los Angeles County.  I have several friends who have homes in Malibu where neighbors lost homes.  I also saw a fire at the condominium complex on the beach where...

Today is election day, and I have one important thing to say.  Get out and vote!  Also, be careful on your way to the your voting location, as we have just adjusted our clocks, and it is now getting dark earlier in the evening.

Getting on to real estate, here are t...

Tomorrow night is Halloween and it is important to drive safely, as there will be children walking in the streets in search of large quantities of candy.  J  I’m trying to remember the last time I went “trick or treating.”  It’s probably been several decades.  Clearly...

Tonight is the first game of the World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox.  The last time the two teams met in the World Series was more than 100 years ago in 1916.  It was so long ago that the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, and they weren’t ca...

The Santa Ana winds arrived yesterday along with a 10-15 degree increase in the temperature.  We are expecting warm and windy days for the rest of the week.  Experience shows that the middle of October is very late to be first experiencing this summer-like weather.  It...

I spoke with my nephew who lives in Manhattan on Sunday.  He told me that he is preparing for inclement weather this coming week and having to cope with it.  It became an excellent opportunity to explain to him that both his father and I had spent portions of our lives...

Fall arrived last week, and this week we are expecting a couple of days of rain.  It has been some time since we saw any rainfall here, which means that the roads will be extra slippery during the first significant rainfall.  Among the new listings that came on the mar...

Fall is here, and the weather is beautiful.  This is one of my favorite times of the year, just before the end of Daylight Savings Time.  There are many new listings this week, particularly in the Beverly Hills Post Office area.  Take a look, and see for yourself....

This is the final week of summer with the autumn equinox occurring this Saturday.  The weather has been extraordinarily beautiful this past week, in extreme contrast to the stormy weather occurring now on the Atlantic coast.  Meanwhile, we continue to be busy with a nu...