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Peek inside newly converted 1920s Koreatown apartments

An old office building at 6th and Normandie, has been refurbished and converted into housing, where rents range from $1,800 up to $3,600. Half of the apartments have already been preleased.

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Long Beach’s City Hall East becomes apartments, renting from $1,880

A midcentury office building once known as Long Beach's City Hall East has been fully converted into a luxury apartments. The building was long occupied by the Edison company and now goes by the name Edison.

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Ridiculous Santa Monica Boulevard apartments will offer butlers and Botox

Wealthy renters "just don’t want to take care of the hassles that everyday life brings, and they want someone else to take care of it for them."

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First look inside Hollywood’s Camden apartments

A decade in the making, The Camden Hollywood is finally ready to serve an upscale, community-oriented clientele. There's amenities galore with common space, a music studio, and artist's annex. Prices start at $2,100 for studios.

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Which LA Apartments Need Earthquake Retrofits?

About 13,500 wood-framed, soft-story apartment buildings already flagged as potentially needing retrofits, but until today, residents had no idea if they were living in a potential earthquake death trap. Now, there's a way to search that list.

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LA Cracking Down on Second-Rate Landlord Repairs

Under a new pilot program, a city inspector will verify a tenant's complaint, then come back after the landlord fixes it to make sure it was done right. The program is in response to tenant complaints that serious problems are being shoddily "fixed."

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Village Green's Loveliest Condo Asking $429,000

It's got a wood-burning fireplace, a bar, and a bounty of built-ins.

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Century-Old Skid Row Hotels Being Turned Into 'Entry Level' Microunit Rentals

Super-small "efficiency apartments," also known as "microunits," are often seen as a way to help keep housing costs low in notoriously expensive Los Angeles, but often times they end up just being a slightly cheaper alternative in very pricey...

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Los Angeles Will Start Requiring Earthquake Retrofits For Apartment Buildings in February

Pardon the pun, but 2016 might bring quite the shakeup to the Los Angeles rental market when the first phase of its historic earthquake retrofitting begins. Since the sweeping retrofit mandate passed last month, the Department of Building and...

Hilltop Apartments Headed For Western End of Action-Packed Historic Filipinotown

The gentrification of Temple Street in Historic Filipinotown continues to pick up steam, with yet another new housing development in the works, this time at the far west end of Temple. As the eastish-side housing market continues to heat up, new...

The Latest Look For the 19-Story Luxury Apartment Tower Set to Rise By the Beverly Center

Grove and Americana developer Rick Caruso has projects going as far as Carlsbad and Montecito, but he's still busy tending to his growing empire in Beverly Grove in the middle of Los Angeles. Urbanize LA has got some new renderings of Caruso's...

See How Frank Gehry Will Transform the Eastern Edge of the Sunset Strip

Newly-submitted environmental documents are revealing all the secrets of starchitect Frank Gehry and developer Townscape Partner's plan for 8150 Sunset, a huge mixed-use project for a site at the eastern edge of the Sunset Strip, once home to Old...

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Now Apartments in Hollywood Are Turning Into Hotels Too

If anyone was worried that Hollywood's incredible hotel boom was slowing down, don't, because it's not done yet. Take as proof this newly proposed hotel on Cherokee Avenue right by Franklin that's poised to take over an existing apartment...

Famously Corrupt Little Vernon Doubling Population With First Private Housing Complex

Vernon is the tiny city south of Downtown Los Angeles that has such a brazenly corrupt past that it could have inspired a great season of True Detective (instead it inspired a kind of boring one). The population has long stayed tightly capped...

Los Angeles Wants to Legalize Hundreds of Illegal Apartments

The Los Angeles City Council is going ahead with creating an ordinance that would legalize scads of illegal apartments throughout the city (the city turns up about 600 to 700 illegal units a year). They've asked the City Attorney to draft...

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Sunset Strip House of Blues Closing Early to Make Way for Big Hotel/Housing/Retail Project

The countdown to a House-of-Blues-less Sunset Strip began last summer, when news came out that construction would begin late this year on a new mixed-use hotel and residential project on the site. (The project has been kicking around for years,...

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Where to Find Apartments With Washer/Dryers in Los Angeles

For some renters, having a washer and dryer in their apartments is a necessity; for others, it's just a nice perk. Those renters who don't care so much are probably saving a boatload of money on rent because, especially in Los Anglees, apartments...

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88-Unit Rental Complex in Larchmont Already Stirring Up Trouble With Neighbors

Nine 1920s-era bungalows are going down to make way for a new five-story apartment complex with 88 units on Wilton Place in Larchmont Village, and neighbors are upset not for preservation reasons (the bungalows had not been deemed "historic" and...

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Hollywood's Unpermitted Sunset Gordon Apartments Also Acting as Unpermitted Hotel

The Sunset Gordon apartment tower is complete, but its long history of troubles has not ceased. After years of bankruptcies, sales, and preservation debacles, the building finally opened to renters in late 2014. But not long after, a judge i...

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What $2,250 Rents You in Los Angeles Right Now

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, where we explore what you can rent or buy for a certain dollar amount in various LA 'hoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Our friends at Zumper have helped us out with five listings...

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Fake Arts District Craiglist Ad Seeks Annoying Gentrifiers

The official concept for the One Santa Fe development—"one and two bedroom luxury apartment homes, combined with distinctive shopping, world-class dining, state-of-the-art amenities and public community art space in the heart of Downtown LA's...

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What $1,600 Rents You in Los Angeles Right Now

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, where we explore what you can rent or buy for a certain dollar amount in various LA 'hoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Our friends at Zumper have helped us out with five listings...

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What $2,000 Rents You in Los Angeles Right Now

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, where we explore what you can rent or buy for a certain dollar amount in various LA 'hoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Our friends at Zumper have helped us out with five listings...

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What $1,350 a Month Rents You in Los Angeles Right Now

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, where we explore what you can rent or buy for a certain dollar amount in various LA 'hoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Our friends at Zumper have helped us out with five listings...

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Korean American Museum With Housing Headed for Koreatown

The Korean American National Museum has moved "nearly a half-dozen times" since 2000, so it's probably eager to get moving on the construction of its permanent home in the heart of Koreatown, on the site of a parking lot at the southwest corner of...

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What $1,800 a Month Rents You in Los Angeles Right Now

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, where we explore what you can rent or buy for a certain dollar amount in various LA 'hoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Our friends at Zumper have helped us out with five listings...

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Touring the Financial District's 22-Story 8th+Hope Apartments

It's not uncommon for luxury buildings like 8th + Hope in Downtown's Financial District to have a rooftop entertainment space with a play area for dogs, two gyms, a spa, a catering kitchen, a screening room—all at the disposal of the residents—so...

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Touring a Spiral Staircase Apartment in the Heart of Hollywood

Welcome to House Calls, a new feature in which Curbed tours the lovely, offbeat, or otherwise awesome homes of regular Angelenos. Think your space should be featured next? Drop us a line with a few photos and details about your place. ...

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Touring an $837-a-Month Apartment in Santa Monica

Welcome to House Calls, a new feature in which Curbed tours the lovely, offbeat, or otherwise awesome homes of regular Angelenos. Think your space should be featured next? Drop us a line with a few photos and details about your place. ...

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What $1,000 a Month Rents You in Los Angeles Right Now

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, where we explore what you can rent or buy for around a certain dollar amount in various Los Angeles neighborhoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Our friends at Zumper have helped us out...

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Here's What Non-Luxury Hollywood Apartments Look Like

Today we are getting our first look at the new development coming to the corner of Fountain and Cahuenga in Hollywood, which the developers promise will not be "luxury" housing, unlike pretty much everything other new building going up in the...

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Koreatown Development Drastically Cuts Required Parking Using This One Simple Trick

When at first a Koreatown condo project did not succeed in getting approved, it resolved to try, try again. Developer Robert Neman initially asked the city for variances to the zoning code that would allow him to build the project at Harvard and...

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