Carolwood edges past The Agency to become LA’s No. 1 boutique

Carolwood Estates has arrived. That may be a bit dramatic. If you’ve been watching Los Angeles’ high-end residential market in real time, you may have already deduced as much. Still, new figures out this week from TRD Data supports such presumption, with the four-year-old Beverly Hills boutique brok

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The pieces we couldn’t stop thinking about this summer, inspired by editor-approved homes.

Ivy Studio creates "soothing" exotic animal clinic in brutalist Quebec bank

Canada's Ivy Studio has transformed a 1970s bank into a veterinary clinic for exotic animals in Laval, Quebec, featuring minimalist interiors and soft lighting. The Fauna clinic occupies a standalone structure completed in a brutalist style near the waterfront, just over the Prairies River northwest

$280M refi in works for Slatkin brothers on Santa Monica hotels

Remember a couple months ago when a $280 million loan on the Slatkin brothers’ Casa del Mar and Shutters on the Beach was sent to special servicing? The brothers, then, said it was a disagreement over an extension stipulation, and called the servicer’s position “unnecessarily aggressive.”  There’s a