Real Estate

Pending home sales in California dropped in August, the fifth consecutive month that the market indicator declined. The state’s Pending Homes Sales Index dropped 4.5 percent, from 104.5 in July to 99.8 last month based on signed contracts, according to a report released Tuesday by the California Association of Realtors. …

A major U.S. homebuilder has purchased 35 single-family lots in Calimesa. D.R. Horton Inc. bought the parcels from Highpointe Communities, a land development company in Aliso Viejo, said Tom Doyle, principal with WD Land in Irvine. The transaction was completed in August and announced last week by WD Land, a …

Single-family home sales dropped in California during August, in part because of rising prices. Sales of single-family detached homes totaled 394,280 units in August, the second-highest sales month so far this year, according to a report released today by the California Association of Realtors in Los Angeles. However, that marked …

A San Francisco-based company will develop a warehouse-distribution facility at the Meridian Business Park in Riverside. Newcastle Partners Inc. has bought 13 acres within the industrial park and will build a 260,000-square-foot speculative project there, according to a statement. Construction on the $20 million development is expected to start during …

Single-family home sales fell to a four-year low in August, as the market continued to be plagued by high prices and low inventory. Nearly 18,800 news and resale houses were sold in the six-county region last month, an 18.5 percent drop compared with August 2013, according to CoreLogic DataQuick in …

A three-building industrial park in Ontario has been sold. Airport Distribution Center was purchased by Guthrie Development Co. and an unnamed investment partner for $20.25 million, said Rob Guthrie, president of the Newport Beach-based company. Panattoni Development in Newport Beach was the seller. CBRE Group Inc. Ontario represented Panattoni Development …