Real Estate

Cash transactions accounted for 25.1 percent of all home sales in the Inland Empire during November, according to data released Wednesday. That was virtually unchanged from April 2015 – a drop of 0.4 percent – but it was below the national rate of 31.6 percent, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported. During the …

The Inland Empire’s retail market continued to improve during the second quarter of 2016, with vacancy down and net absorption up during that three-month period. Vacancy in the two-county region was 9.6 percent, among the lowest rate recorded since the start of the recession in 2008, according to CBRE’s Inland …

Single-family home sales in Southern California were flat last month compared with one year earlier, according to data released Tuesday. A total of 24,326 new and used home were sold in the six-county market in June, a drop of -0.2 percent compared with June 2015, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported in its …

In other housing news, distressed sales accounted for 8.8 percent of all home sales nationwide during April, a drop of three percent year-over-year. In the Inland Empire, distressed sales accounted for 10 percent of all home sales during that month, CoreLogic reported Tuesday. That was the largest drop of any …

The upside is that vacancy is down, absorption is up and lease rates are holding steady. The downside is that any speculative construction, the sign of a truly healthy market, isn’t likely to happen soon. He may be in the minority, but Jerry Holdner believes the long-struggling Inland Empire office market …

The Inland Empire office market perked up a little during the second quarter. The two-county region’s vacancy rate during April, May and June was 14.1 percent, essentially unchanged from the 14.4 percent rate recorded during the first quarter, according to CBRE Group Inc. However, from May 2011 to May of …