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Property Values

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2010

    Unclaimed $45 mil fortune in Los Angeles: Does the tax assessor owe you hundreds of dollars?

    Does Los Angeles County own you a piece of $45 million? You could easily be one of the 25,200 people the county can't "find" who got screwed shortly after the last California housing bubble collapse in 1991. If you don't know the squirmingly familiar lessons from that disaster, read "Unreal Estate" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Bill Would End Tax Loopholes Under Prop. 13 For California Businesses

    Assemblyman Tom Ammiano.​Liberal San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, the man behind a legislative proposal to legalize marijuana, wants to close some of the loopholes in state tax law that have allowed some businesses to change hands without being reassessed for rising property values and c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    L.A. Country Club Pays Ultra Low Property Tax Rate; Faces Possible Review

    ​The Los Angeles Country Club, protected under Prop. 13 limits and loopholes, pays an ultra-low rate of about $200,000 a year in property taxes based on 313 acres of prime Westside property that could be worth nearly $20 billion or even more if it were developed, according to the Garment & Cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    L.A. Is No. 1! ... In Draining Home Values

    ​Boy, those were the days. Million-plus-dollar homes in Culver City (Culver City!), Mar Vista (at the bottom of the hill) and Venice (away from the beach) were the rage only a few years ago. The flip side to all of that madness, however, is that Los Angeles now leads the nation in home-value l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Torched Dancer Suspects Nabbed A joint effort by police and U.S. Marshals netted the two suspects who allegedly set bikini dancer Roberta Busby afire in the early morning hours of last Thursday. Rianne Theriault-Odom, 27, and Nathaniel Petrillo, 22, were run to ground at a San Fernando Valley motel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    Schwarzenegger may make history with a budget veto

    Staffers to the governor are giving media outlets strong indications that Arnold Schwarzenegger will tonight go on the air to announce that he is vetoing the California state budget — which was approved weeks late by Sacramento legislators — because it is filled with accounting tricks and contai ... More >>

  • News

    November 15, 2007

    Foreclosure Frenzy

    L.A.’s middle class embraced $3,000 mortgages. Will a recession ensue?

  • News

    August 24, 2006

    Welcome to Gentrification City

    Teardowns. Evictions. Investment. Rebirth. And the significance of that new gelato stand. The perils and pleasures of gentrification

  • News

    April 21, 2005

    Theater in Exile

    What does it mean when we send our theater companies packing?

  • News

    November 25, 2004

    Model City

    West Hollywood and the growing pains of rent control

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Hollywood Row

    Larchmont rallies to block studio parking plans

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