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Collette Ramirez
What is Measure ULA and How Will It Affect the LA and Santa Barbara Market?
Los Angeles Measure ULA, officially known as the “Homelessness and Housing Solutions Tax,” is a ballot measure that Los Angeles voters...
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Collette Ramirez
- May 10
- 2 min
Lavish Santa Barbara Estate Strikes a Chord With Nashville Songwriter
Back in February, Shane McAnally told The New York Times he had been busy shopping for a California home. Now records reveal the country...
Collette Ramirez
- Apr 25
- 3 min
Property Insights: What Does U. S. $10 Million Buy Around the World?
Property Insights: What Does U. S. $10 Million Buy Around the World? In the global marketplace for luxury real estate, let's explore what...
Collette Ramirez
- Apr 21
- 6 min
3 comfortable retirees all with around $2M saved. What did they all have in common? All own homes.
For many Americans, retirement advice is limited to encouragement to save more or warnings that they haven’t saved enough. But most...
Collette Ramirez
- Apr 18
- 2 min
The True Tale of Zorro & His Ties to Santa Barbara
In 1919, Johnston McCulley began to write a series of popular novels about a swashbuckling champion of justice. Dressed in black,...
Collette Ramirez
- Apr 10
- 2 min
Oprah Winfrey Sells Spare Montecito Ranch to Hollywood Filmmaker
For many years, Oprah Winfrey’s main residence has been the so-called “Promised Land” estate, a roughly 66-acre compound in prime...
Collette Ramirez
- Mar 29
- 2 min
AKG | Christie's Intl. Real Estate Enlists Industry Maverick Josh Ramirez to Lead New Division
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aaron Kirman of AKG | Christie's International Real Estate, one of the nation's...
Collette Ramirez
- Mar 10
- 2 min
Santa Barbara makes the list of Top 10 U.S. towns where millionaires are buying second homes
For many of America’s most affluent people, having a second or third home is the norm. And according to a new report, they prefer...
Collette Ramirez
- Feb 23
- 6 min
A Brief History of Montecito
Erroneously translated as “little mountain,” the name El Montecito is an archaic use of the Spanish word meaning woodland or countryside....
Collette Ramirez
- Jan 30
- 4 min
Ellen DeGeneres Sells Montecito’s Historic Rancho San Leandro & Sprouts CEO Bags Oceanfront Home
After capping off 2022 with the record $70 million purchase of an oceanfront compound, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are...
Collette Ramirez
- Jan 13
- 2 min
Lake Cachuma Expected to Fill and Spill in Wake of Major Storms
Swelled by heavy runoff from recent large storms, Lake Cachuma is expected to fill and spill by this weekend, according to Santa Barbara...
Collette Ramirez
- Jan 4
- 3 min
$33.5M estate Where Meghan & Harry Filmed Netflix Doc & Ellen's $70m beach front estate
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex sat down to be interviewed for their much-anticipated Netflix docuseries, which began its...
Collette Ramirez
- Dec 6, 2022
- 4 min
Furniture Designer Lists Santa Ynez Farmhouse & Colleen Ballinger Buys Yogurt King’s SB Estate
Back in summer 1994, furniture designer Hélène Aumont picked up a traditional saltbox-style residence in the quaint village of Ballard,...
Collette Ramirez
- Nov 28, 2022
- 4 min
Historic Gonzales-Ramirez Adobe
Located in Santa Barbara, California, the Gonzalez-Ramirez House is a National Historic Landmark that is a classic example of a CA adobe
Collette Ramirez
- Nov 1, 2022
- 2 min
New State Housing Law Strips Parking Requirement From Santa Barbara, Local Control
A new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom could revolutionize housing projects in Santa Barbara by taking planning decisions out of the...
Collette Ramirez
- Nov 1, 2022
- 3 min
Kourtney Kardashian, Travis Barker Buy Conan O’Brien’s Carpinteria Beach House
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have been married for nearly six months, but the pair still does not live together — as per the...
Collette Ramirez
- Oct 10, 2022
- 3 min
Conan O’Brien's New property on the Sand & Larry David Spends Millions on Montecito Estate
Turns out Conan O’Brien isn’t ready to call it quits in Carpinteria just yet! A little over a month after his longtime beach house popped...
Collette Ramirez
- Aug 16, 2022
- 1 min
Riviera park sold
Riviera Park, which housed the original buildings of what would later become UC Santa Barbara, was sold on July 22 for an estimated...
Collette Ramirez
- Aug 5, 2022
- 4 min
Moves that homebuyers can still make to find a lower mortgage rate
After dropping to record lows in 2020 and 2021, mortgage rates are back up. Way up. While the past few weeks saw a reversal in the surge,...
Collette Ramirez
- Aug 2, 2022
- 3 min
‘Jurassic Park’ Screenwriter Flips Montecito home and some
It’s officially a wrap! After barely a year of ownership, Hollywood screenwriter/director David Koepp — best-known for blockbuster films...
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