Author spotlight: Peter Kiefer

Peter Kiefer is a Los Angeles-based writer and journalist. He most recently worked as the real estate & city editor for The Hollywood Reporter. During his career, he has worked as a staff writer for The New York Sun in Manhattan and as a reporter in the Rome Bureau of The New York Times. He lives in Venice Beach.

Welcome to the Neighborhood: Montecito is experiencing a once-in-a-generation real estate boom that is reshaping the once sleepy, bucolic town
By Peter Kiefer   |   December 24, 2020

Signs that a community is in the throes of an historic transformation are rarely overt and almost never seismic. They’re small yet perceptible shifts that, in aggregate, tell a story of where a town or a city is coming from and where it’s most likely headed. In the case of Montecito those signs – at […]

Montecito Gets Its Mojo Back
By Peter Kiefer   |   June 25, 2020

One of the handful of go-to real estate agents for Montecito, Dan Encell has been studiously observing the ebb-and-flow of the crown jewel of Santa Barbara’s luxury housing market for more than three decades. He’s seen it all, but even Encell was surprised by the insistent ringing of his cell phone at a time when […]