The Manhattan Beach real estate market had a surprisingly strong year in 2017. Realtors differ on why, but everyone is looking east.
Local real estate brokers Dave Fratello, of MB Confidential, and Jerry Carew, of 3 Leaf Realty at a construction site in the red-hot real estate market in East Manhattan Beach. Photo Upward, eastward The ancient Greeks consulted the Oracle at Delphi for nearly eleven centuries, beginning in seventh century B.C. and continuing until the fourth century, making the trek to the Temple of Apollo to ask the high priestess their questions about the future. Both the answers and the methodology of the priestess were a bit hazy. Some scholars say the Oracle, called the Pythia, delivered largely incomprehensible answers after breathing in vapors rising from chasms in nearby rock. That gibberish would be interpreted by priests and turned into dactylic hexameter poetry, leaving most everyone scratching their heads, trying to discern what it all meant. But for a thousand years in one of the most learned civilizations in history, the Oracle was a revered source of wisdom. In Manhattan Beach, in this century, the resident oracle is the Multiple Listing Service, or the MLS, as it is more commonly known. The MLS is the real estate listing database which Realtors consult when trying to divine…
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