Few topics are as perennial around the Sabbath table as real estate values!

I've been covering this story for months and it just keeps getting uglier.

Here are my previous reports on this.

I wrote a few months ago about the fall of real estate developer Laurence Gluck and the unhappy residents of the AQUA apartment complex at 4750 Lincoln Blvd, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292.

Read more on Unhappy Tenants In Marina Del Rey…

It's hard to go to a Shabbat dinner in Pico-Robertson without the conversation moving at some point to real estate prices.

Home prices in Pico-Robertson have stood up well during the recent recession.

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I have not experienced this in Pico-Robertson.

From the LA Times:

Nationwide, apartment rents eased 0.1% in the fourth quarter, the first drop since 2002, according to the analysis by research firm Reis Inc.

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Moshe Glasser writes:

When houses went on the market in my neighborhoods (first Beverlywood, in Los Angeles, sometimes called the Pico-Robertson Area, though that’s a much more expansive designation; later Teaneck, NJ and the accompanying Northern New Jersey towns like Englewood, Fair Lawn, and Bergenfield), sometimes Jews would move in and sometimes not. Especially in Teaneck, as the prices went up and up, the Jewish homes began to outnumber the non-Jewish ones, at least in the areas where synagogues caused Jews to view housing as optimal. There didn’t seem to be any conspiracy; we needed to live within walking distance of a shul. And while that distance could be extended beyond a block or two, your universe of housing options could often be drawn with a simple circle extending between half a mile and a mile around the shul building itself. But matters of convenience were also social, cultural, and economic. A wealthy shul would create wealthy homes around it, and make it harder for those outside the economic class of the shul members to move there.

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Marc Ballon writes in the Aug. 5, 2004 issue of the Jewish Journal:

Driving through Pico-Robertson, real estate developer George Saadin smiles as he points out kosher markets filled with shoppers, Judaica shops, shuls and dozens of kosher restaurants — veritable signs of the Jewish renaissance taking place now in the neighborhood.

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Here are some listings:

8559 Alcott St #204, Los Angeles CA

$520,000

2 br 2½ ba 1,520 sqft

Condo

Pico – Robertson

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