Santa Monica was the surprise most-expensive with a median of $3.1 million, but Manhattan Beach had the craziest year, with the list’s highest prices per square foot in its El Porto and Sand Section ‘hoods (that means it has smaller places selling at higher prices). El Porto and MB’s Hill Section saw the largest leaps in home prices; the former was up a difficult-to-believe 54 percent over 2013 and the latter was up by a full third. Meanwhile, poor Beverly Hills is the only place on the top 10 to see prices drop over 2013; they were down seven percent, to a totally laughable $2 million.
This list does not at all track with the biggest house sales of last year, most of which were clustered in Holmby Hills and Bel Air.