Southern California’s 12 hottest real estate stories of 2024
What a wild year it was for Southern California real estate – from battles over homebuying commissions to endless affordability debates to, of course, plenty of ritzy housing hitting the market.
To review the year, look at a dozen of 2024’s most-read real estate stories from the Southern California News Group …
- No. 1: Sold a home recently? Here’s what you’ll get from the $418 million Realtor settlement
- No. 2: Late ‘Three’s Company’ star Suzanne Somers’ former Palm Springs home seeks $9M
- No. 3: Newport Beach home of ‘RHOC’ ex-husband David Beador lists for $6.9 million
- No. 4: Ex-Angels manager Mike Scioscia lists Newport Beach island home for $9.2 million
- No. 5: It takes $349,200 income to buy an Orange County home, 3.5 times the US salary
- No. 6: Free, 50-foot ‘dream’ boat dismantled in Trabuco Canyon after getting no takers
- No. 7: 20 least-affordable US cities to buy a home are all in California
- No. 8: Retired news anchor Chuck Henry’s Pasadena home finds a buyer, fast
- No. 9: Resort at Pelican Hill switching to Marriott management, St. Regis brand
- No. 10: Former St. John Knits exec sells Newport Beach estate to Corona exec for $30 million
- No. 11: Christina Hall’s former blufftop home in Dana Point seeks $16.9 million
- No. 12: Newport Beach estate, still under construction, asks $89 million