Housing
May 19, 2010
With the housing market finally looking up to developers in Antelope Valley, the survivors of the bust are trying to recoup their losses while figuring out what buyers will want next.
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May 14, 2010Nearly one in five office buildings in Ventura County are vacant. For some it seems like one more disaster, but others see it as an amazing opportunity for commercial real estate investors. -
Mar 22, 2010A homeless services agency on Sunset Boulevard is not struggling financially, but still finding it hard to provide a hand up over a handout.
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Mar 13, 2010Short sales may be the next big thing as lenders try to avoid foreclosures in the distressed real estate market. But with no set rules or standard procedures - buyers and sellers never know quite what to expect. -
Mar 9, 2010Manny Valencia wanted to create an enclave in Corona, California where the rich would come to play. Now, he has a beautiful mansion with a nearly $10 million price tag, and no one willing to buy it. -
Mar 2, 2010Housing prices in California are showing signs of stabilizing. Except in Riverside County, where the indicators continue to point down, down, down. -
Feb 11, 2010Frank Zappa said it almost forty years ago, "It can't happen here." And indeed, for the first couple of years of the housing downturn, the high end market seemed immune. That's now changed, and even as more modest homes are starting to sell, upscale houses are are lingering unsold. -
Feb 10, 2010Two years after the housing market peaked in Palmdale, one development is still ready for construction crews to arrive and start building. The two model homes stand alone in the sand, waiting for real estate agents to give tours. Instead, their windows and doors are boarded up with plywood. The pipes and wiring have been purloined by scavengers. And rather than homes for growing families, they have become hangouts for local gangs. -
Feb 8, 2010Nearly half the homes on the market in the exclusive south Orange County community of Ladera Ranch are either bank-owned or up for short sale. The situation will only worsen if a predicted second wave of foreclosures hits this year. -
Feb 4, 2010When investors planning to turn a run-down motel into high-end condos ran into the housing downturn, they did a turn of their own. Instead of an upscale, glitzy development, the builders went back to the drawing board and created 30 units of much-needed low-income housing.
