Port Hueneme Housing Market and Neighborhood Guide: The Coast’s Affordable Beach Town
Port Hueneme is the small city with the outsized identity: barely 4.5 square miles, entirely surrounded by Oxnard and the ocean, defined by its deep-water…
Author: Gary Jacobs
Gary Jacobs is a Southern California local, raised in Westlake Village, with real estate experience that spans hundreds of home sales across dozens of Southern California communities. He writes local guides, area updates and market insight on the main communities he serves — Conejo and San Fernando Valleys, Coastal Ventura to West Los Angeles, to help residents, community members and prospective buyers and sellers make confident, well-informed decisions.
Ventura County Surf Spots: A Local’s Guide from Rincon to County Line
Ventura County packs an outsized amount of good surf into its coastline — from the world-class point break that opens the county's western edge to…
Malibu Surf Spots: From Surfrider to County Line
Malibu is where California surf culture grew up. Its 21 miles of coast hold everything from the most storied point break in the state to…
Santa Rosa Valley Housing Market and Neighborhood Guide: Ventura County’s Equestrian Enclave
Santa Rosa Valley is one of the region's best-kept secrets: an unincorporated pocket of Ventura County tucked between Camarillo, Thousand Oaks and Moorpark, where the…
Simi Valley vs. Moorpark: The Region’s Value Corridor, Compared
Simi Valley and Moorpark are the "over the grade" alternative to the Conejo Valley — connected to Thousand Oaks and the coast by the 118…
Woodland Hills Housing Market and Neighborhood Guide
Woodland Hills sits at the western end of the Valley and offers something the closer-in communities can't: room. It's home to Warner Center, the Valley's…
Hiking Trails Near Ventura: Coastal Views, Canyons and the Serra Cross
You don't have to drive far from downtown Ventura to get above the rooftops and out over the ocean. From a hilltop cross with island…
Ventura County’s Two Harbors: A Guide to Channel Islands Harbor and Ventura Harbor
Photo / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsVentura County has two harbors, sitting barely nine miles apart, and locals rarely confuse them — but newcomers…
Moorpark Housing Market and Neighborhood Guide
Moorpark is the newer, smaller and slightly pricier neighbor to Simi Valley — a city where more than three-quarters of the homes were built after…
Van Nuys Housing Market and Neighborhood Guide
Van Nuys is the central, urban heart of the Valley — denser, more diverse and more affordable than the hillside communities to its south, and…