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Rich home buyers are ‘test-driving’ multimillion-dollar mansions

When San Diego residents Marty Smith and Tracy Park realized they’d soon be empty nesters, they began an international hunt for a beach house. “I had been traveling to the Caribbean for 20 years, but…

Plush indoor-outdoor office building to rise near Playa Vista and 405 Freeway

In a bet on the continuing allure of Silicon Beach, one of the neighborhood’s largest developers will erect a deluxe speculative office building near Playa Vista intended to appeal to tech, entertainment and media companies….