Rising from the Ashes: How the local real estate community is helping establish Pali South
by Mark McDermott Annie Hartley loved the house the moment she stepped inside. She is a Realtor in Manhattan Beach, so Hartley has developed a sixth sense about certain homes, kind of like how a sommelier picks up notes in a glass of wine that most people do not. It begins with where the house is, of course — location, location, location, as the adage goes — and this house was on a walk street on the 400 block, close both to the ocean and downtown yet with that mellow, communal feeling Manhattan Beach’s walk streets are famous for. The design was likewise note-perfect, modern and clean yet homey and warm, with wood floors, an open floor plan, and wood beams forming a cross in the main living area that made it feels somehow like a country ranch house at the beach. Realtor Annie Hartley in a home she helped a local owner sell to a Palisades buyer. The seller kept the price the home was originally set at even though it went on the market the day after the wildfire. “It is quite simply, the perfect home,” Hartley later wrote on Instagram. “The best location, ideal layout, style and most importantly, the best feeling when you walk in.” But what really struck her was the owners. The…
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