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Clear Way Real Estate | Boutique SFV brokerage + property management. Lake Balboa, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Encino, and the Valley.

Founded by Justin Bonney (CA DRE #01338897). (818) 697-4884 | homesbyclearway.com San Fernando Valley CA Real Estate

Welcome to JustinBonney.com, your one-stop source for San Fernando Valley, CA real estate.

06/09/2026

Something good is coming together in Lake Balboa, and I am genuinely excited about this one. 🏡

A young family is about to land on one of my favorite streets in the neighborhood, and the way it came together says everything about how I like to do this work. Through relationships, not transactions.

The seller was in great hands with their agent, , a true pro. My buyers had me in their corner as their advocate and as someone who knows this pocket of Lake Balboa inside and out. We found a way to make it work for everyone at the table. That is the whole game when you do it right. Nobody loses. 🤝

This one is personal for me. Lake Balboa is where I came back to after a long road of my own, so handing the keys to good people who are about to love it the way I do never gets old. ❤️

More to come once it is official. And Mary, thank you for the partnership. This is how it is supposed to go. 🙏

06/08/2026

683 lots. 100 permits a month. The Palisades story just changed.

16 months after the fire, here is where things actually sit:

→ ~683 lots active, in escrow, or sold

→ ~650 rebuild permits issued

→ ~100 new permits landing per month

→ 3.5 month average permit timeline

The bottleneck is no longer the city. It is contractor capacity.

Owners: the window where ridge and view lots traded at a discount is closing.

Buyers: this is the most direct path into one of the most supply-constrained zip codes in California.

Our 1% flat listing fee on Palisades land keeps more proceeds with your family. Lower friction. Same diligence.

👉 Full update: https://homesbyclearway.com/blog/pacific-palisades-rebuild-update-what-june-2026-actually-looks-like-on-the-ground

06/04/2026

California's biggest zoning shift in a generation goes live July 1.

SB 79 unlocks 150,000+ new housing units in the San Fernando Valley alone. G Line stops at Balboa, Reseda, Sepulveda, Tampa, Woodman, Pierce College did NOT get LA's delay.

The honest read for SFV homeowners:

→ Within a quarter-mile of those stops? Your land just got rerated.

→ Further out? Comps and insurance still move.

→ Buying near transit? Do not pay developer money for retail use.

Not the apocalypse. Not nothing. A specific change for specific addresses.

👉 Full breakdown: https://homesbyclearway.com/blog/sb-79-goes-live-july-1-what-every-san-fernando-valley-homeowner-needs-to-know

06/02/2026

California just sued State Farm.

11,300 LA wildfire claims allegedly mishandled. The Insurance Commissioner is weighing a 1-year suspension of State Farm's right to sell insurance in California.

What every LA homeowner should do this week:

→ Do not cancel your policy first. Shop, then switch.

→ If you are in escrow, lock your binder in writing before contingencies lift.

→ If you are a Palisades fire client, the state just gave you leverage. Use it.

Insurance is the silent variable in every LA deal right now.

👉 Full breakdown: https://homesbyclearway.com/blog/state-farm-california-enforcement-what-la-homeowners-need-to-know

05/25/2026

Tomorrow we pause.

Not for a sale. Not just for a long weekend. For the men and women who never came home.

To every family who lost someone in service to this country — through the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, or Coast Guard — we remember your loved one. We carry their memory with us.

Freedom isn't free. They paid for ours. 🇺🇸 🙏

05/22/2026

🎯 Priced below market on purpose.

We listed at $747,000, well under value. Conventional wisdom said it would backfire.

10 offers in 10 days. 3 open houses. One firm offer deadline. A seller who is genuinely thrilled, and backup buyers waiting in the wings.

This wasn’t luck. It was a system.

When you control the environment, you control the outcome. Strategic pricing creates competition. Competition drives the right offer to the top. The seller wins.

Full story coming once we close. Trust me, this one has a twist.

Who you work with matters. 🧡

🎥 Reel cut by Ricardo Lopez
📸 Listing photos by Billy Rhodes

📍 San Fernando Valley
🏠 Clear Way Real Estate

05/19/2026

Daniel wanted to walk away. More than once.

Wrong HOA docs. A management company being disbanded mid-escrow. Missing financials. Spreadsheets hitting my inbox with cost projections and worst-case scenarios.

I get it. On paper it looked messy. But owning real estate doesn’t tell its full story on a spreadsheet. Not when you factor in the tax write-offs, the principal paydown as a forced savings account, and the equity you’re building every single month you own.

We worked through it together until the numbers told the real story.

The listing agent and lender said it independently: this deal doesn’t close without the work we put in.

Now Daniel is in his condo. We’re already coordinating minor repairs and future remodeling through our post-close vendor crew. The relationship doesn’t end at closing. That’s the whole point.

Congratulations, Daniel. Thank you for trusting the process when it was hard. The five stars mean everything.

05/12/2026

Early 2024, I sat down with a family for a listing interview and told them what they needed to hear, not what they wanted to hear. 🎯

I didn’t get the listing.

Fourth of July weekend, my phone rang. Their agent had left the state and left them high and dry. No escrow. No offers. Almost no activity. The home had been wildly overpriced from day one and the market had moved on. 📉

They’d wanted me from the start. Now they needed me. 🤝

Downsloping lot. Near a freeway. PPSF that scared off the desk-comp agents.
That’s the trap. Price per square foot is one of the most misleading numbers in real estate, and the agents who lean on it are the same ones who overprice, ghost, and bail when it gets hard.

We rolled up our sleeves. Real conversations. Real strategy. Found the fortune in the fire. 🔥

Closed it. Sold to a lovely couple. The buyer’s agent, a seasoned commercial guy, told me it was one of the craziest deals he’d done in years. We’ve stayed in touch ever since. The kind of mutual respect that only comes from doing hard things well. 🤲
There’s a reason some agents are mediocre. They copy-paste. They overprice to win the listing. They ghost when it gets hard.

Not me. I’m Jerry Maguire over here. Fewer clients, deeper work, all in. 💼

Got a tough sale or an agent who stopped picking up? DM me. Let’s talk. 📩
— Thank you Jessica for the kind words. Shadow Hills, you have my heart.
❤️

04/29/2026

Just closed at 17329 Burbank Blvd in Encino. 🔑

Here's the real story.

This one came in as a referral from an out-of-area agent. Small world moment: I already knew the agent the seller had been working with.

The owner had an investment property that was getting harder to manage while she was building a life overseas, and she wanted a fresh set of eyes.

I actually tried to talk her out of listing. She kept showing up. After enough follow-ups, I went and walked the property myself.

The floor plan told a clearer story than I expected. A reconfiguration didn't pencil in this market. New construction had real upside given the zip code, but the cleanest path forward was repositioning the property for a daycare or small assisted living operator.

Different lens, different buyer pool, different conversation.
Ten days on the market. A wave of lowball offers. Then two real ones.

We took the offer just above asking with the cleanest terms (termite clearance only). A title issue surfaced on the buyer side mid-escrow. We got creative, assigned the contract to a family member, and kept the deal moving.

Closed in 40 days from going live.

Bittersweet for our seller, who is already focused on what's next. She trusted my read after I tried to send her in the other direction. That trust is the part of this job I don't take for granted.

Grateful for the referral. Grateful for the seller's patience. Onto the next conversation. 🧡

11/27/2025

A moment to pause and be thankful.
Today we’re grateful for family, for the trust our clients place in us, and for the colleagues who make this work meaningful. 2025 has asked a lot from all of us, yet it has also brought growth, connection, and blessings we don’t take for granted.
Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving filled with good food, warm memories, and the people who matter most 🧡🍁

Happy Thanksgiving from Clearway Real Estate!

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