I spent a couple of weeks in L.A. earlier in the summer looking for a small pied-a-terre. In the best neighborhoods on Los Angeles's Westside prices have made only token rotations off the highs. Granted that may be changing-I follow the market there avidly and prices are less than buoyant-but basically the huge weakness one associates with SoCal real estate is in the newer, over built communities far, far away from the coast.