Inside Lomita homes
Because this was farmland later than its neighbors, a lot of the lots are deeper than the houses on them need. You will find a 1946 cottage of nine hundred square feet sitting on eight thousand feet of ground with a garage, a shed and forty years of garden at the back. Streets like Narbonne and Eshelman still read that way.
The condominium courts are the other half of the picture. Two-story attached units built between roughly 1974 and 1988 fill several blocks, and they share a driveway, a mailbox bank and usually an association. We handle both, and the practical difference is that the cottages need more time in the kitchen while the condos need more time on the stairs and the carpeted landings.
What we walk into in Lomita
Two shapes dominate. The older house is a single-story cottage or ranch of 900 to 1,500 square feet, slab or raised, with the original bathroom still in place more often than not. The condominium stock is two levels, 1,000 to 1,600 square feet, carpeted upstairs and tiled below, with a half bath on the entry floor and a narrow enclosed stair. Neither has much glass, so windows are not the driver here — kitchens and bathrooms are.