Inland Empire residents are apparently getting better about paying their mortgages. Four point seven percent of all home mortgages in Riverside and San Bernardino counties were delinquent by at least 30 days in February, down from 5.3 percent in February 2016, according to data released by CoreLogic in Irvine. That …
Read More »High-end student housing complex sold
Grandmarc at University Village, a student housing community near UC Riverside, has been sold. The 212-unit luxury facility at 3549 Iowa Road sold for $44.1 million, or $208,018 per unit, CBRE Group Inc. announced Monday. The buyer was Harmonia Hopkins, a Maryland-based investor in student housing. Hopkins plans to manage …
Read More »U.S., local home prices surge
Home prices, including distressed sales, were up 7.1 percent nationwide during March compared with March 2016, according to data released Tuesday. Month-over-month, the increase wasn’t as substantial: 1.6 percent, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported in its monthly assessment of U.S. housing prices. CoreLogic’s Home Prince Index is only 2.8 percent from its …
Read More »Local home cash sales up
Cash sales accounted for 29.9 percent of all home sales in the Inland Empire in January, a three-percent increase year-over-year, according to data released this week. That was below the national rate – 36.5 percent- for the first month of the year, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported. Nationwide, cash sales peaked in …
Read More »Housing market stays strong
March was a solid month for the Southern California housing market. A total of 22,042 houses and condominiums, both new and resale, changed hands last month, according to data released Tuesday by CoreLogic in Irvine. That was a 47.6 percent increase month-over-month and a 7.8 percent increase compared with March …
Read More »Affordable housing complex sells
A 90-unit affordable housing complex in Indio for low-income elderly people has been sold. Desert Oasis Apartments, which is subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, sold for $11 million, according to a statement released today by Colliers International The sale, a record for a HUD-subsidized property …
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