Downloadable Guides

Morning fog lifting off the bluffs at Lunada Bay. Volleyball nets going up beside the Manhattan Beach Pier. A horse and rider waiting for the light at a crosswalk in Rolling Hills Estates. Each one comes with details worth knowing, and most of them never show up in a real estate listing description of a home you are considering.

Chhabria Real Estate Company has sold thousands of homes on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in the Beach Cities and across the Greater South Bay since 1984, more than $5 billion in sales. That total includes on-market and off-market sales, plus the years before CRMLS records begin in 1994.

For buyers: homebuyer’s guides to Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach; The Chhabria Guide to Insurance and a Peninsula Purchase, on fire zones, the disclosure and the FAIR Plan; Preparing Documents for Your Mortgage Application, on the income records, statements and returns a lender asks for; and The Local’s Guide to Pets in the South Bay.
For owners: Preparing to Earn Top Dollar on Your Home Sale, for getting a home ready to list, and The Next Chapter, for deciding what comes after the sale of a longtime home.

For everyday life here, our South Bay Locals page holds over 40 local guides, from farmers markets to dog beaches.

The Palos Verdes guide goes MLS area by MLS area, from Valmonte and Malaga Cove to Mira Catalina, and covers the Art Jury and Palos Verdes Homes Association rules that apply when you remodel or add on in Palos Verdes Estates. The Manhattan Beach guide covers all six MLS areas, 142 through 147, from the Sand Section to Manhattan Village. The pets guide has the dog license fee in every city: $9 a year for an altered dog in Rolling Hills, $29 in Torrance, and a new thirty-day clock when you move from one city to the next.

We do our very best to supply facts drawn from official sources so that the information you find here is reliable and accurate. If we find conflicting information, we report on all of it. The pets guide, for one, carries both Torrance license fees: the one on the city’s own page and the one through its licensing partner.

Buying, selling, or still deciding if the South Bay is where you’ll settle down next? Choose the guides you want, add them to your set, and tell us where to send them. Each one is written so you can tour a home, or plan a sale, already knowing what sets that neighborhood apart.