Caitlin Villarreal felt giddy the first time she stepped inside the Whitley Heights rental, a storied 1926 Mediterranean-style penthouse ... the devastating Los Angeles fires in January ...

Just 6 miles from Tinseltown, the Los Angeles suburb is peaceful ... Yet with its contemporary twist on Tuscan-style house ...

Before buying her Los Angeles home in 2001, the actress Helen Hunt toured newly built houses with huge entryways and formal staircases. “Those were not for me,” she said in an email.