Black Professionals Spotlight: Golden Gate Home Inspections

Christopher Black’s company Golden Gate Home Inspections is fast, professional, and highly rated. Tell us about your business, how you got started, and why you’re passionate about it. Based in San Francisco, my company Golden Gate Home Inspections is a full-service residential and commercial home inspection company providing certified home inspectors to the entire San Francisco Bay Area. We provide a wide array of home...

Architect’s Napa-inspired Pacific Palisades estate

Hidden behind a discreet hedge at the top of the Palisades Riviera, this Napa Valley-inspired trophy estate features unparalleled city, ocean, and Catalina views. Completely re-envisioned in 2010 by renowned architect Steve Giannetti, the nearly 7,000-square-foot residence has been redesigned to the highest levels of taste and finish. The home is set on an expansive, mostly flat, half-acre that exemplifies the California indoor-outdoor lifestyle with...

Napa County real estate market accelerates

Napa County’s real estate market is off to a heated start in 2021 February 2021 Report Our January report focused mostly on 2020’s annual statistics. This report will put most of its attention on quarterly and monthly indicators, which better illustrate changes occurring as 2020 progressed: pre-pandemic to initial pandemic crash through the subsequent market recovery. Napa County, of course, was also impacted by the...

What's Happening This Week: March 9, 2021

Los Angeles Greater Area Local women-owned businesses to support You’re gonna buy stuff. Why not give your bucks to LA women who are putting their hearts, souls and skills into their companies? Wine and flowers, beauty and fashion, artisan bread and breakfast tacos: here are some female-run places to discover. Courtesy Vinovore The early flower fields are ba-a-ack COVID closed the Carlsbad Flower Fields just...

What is a TIC and is Owning One Risky?

Everything you need to know about TIC ownership Tenancies-in-common, also called tenants-in-common or TICs, have been a popular housing option in San Francisco and are recently on the rise in Los Angeles – but they can prove befuddling to the uninitiated. In simplest terms, it’s a group of people pooling their resources to buy a multiple-unit building. “The number one reason to buy a TIC...

Where We Are Now: March 4, 2021

Our Journey | Our Team | Never Bet Against America 5:50AM PST Team –  Our journey together continues – new chapters, amazing markets – but nonetheless a journey. We have climbed from the depths of 2009 returning PUI to a nimble SF Bay Area Company. We extended our reach to Southern California from 2015 to 2018, and in Fall 2018, we joined the Compass family....

Iconic Napa Valley “Ink House”

Renovated in 2017 by luxury architect Howard Backen, this iconic St. Helena property evokes an unmistakable Wine Country style with elevated farmhouse-inspired interiors. The former home of early Napa Valley settler and agriculturist, Theron Ink, Ink House has in recent years become known as one of Napa’s most luxurious boutique inns. The inn was also home for Elvis Presley during the filming of “Wild in the...

What's Happening This Week: March 1, 2021

Los Angeles Greater Area Pick your own produce Fat red beets. Impossibly fresh broccoli. Cabbage and carrots. Ruby grapefruit. Gleaming spinach and sugar snap peas. Just some of what’s ready for you to pull from the soil in March at this Moorpark family farm. It doesn’t get any fresher — or more fun. Courtesy of Underwood Family Farms Griffith Park, set to its own changing...

Compass agents named to Variety Showbiz Real Estate Elite 2021

Compass congratulates our agents featured in this year’s Variety Showbiz Real Estate Elite. The industry honor recognizes agents who work with the most exclusive properties in “showbiz” markets, including Los Angeles, New York and Miami. Congrats to Cindy Ambuehl, Chris Cortazzo, Aaron Kirman, Sally Forster Jones, Carl Gambino, Ginger Glass, Clayton Orrigo & Stephen Ferrara, and Liz Hogan on their accomplishment.