Pardee Homes in Pasadena has purchased 359 residential lots in Menifee, where it plans to develop three neighborhoods. The seller was Menifee Heights Inc. LLC, a group of private investors, according to WD Land in Irvine, which helped negotiate the transaction. The land is now raw open space that must …
Read More »Cash sales of houses up
In other housing news, cash sales of homes and condominiums were down nationwide in November. Cash transactions made up 32.4 percent of all home sales during the next-to-last month of 2016, down 4.5 percent year-over-year, according to data released Monday by CoreLogic. That was 14.2 percent below the peak the …
Read More »Housing market starts 2017 strong
January was a solid month for home sales in Southern California. A total of 15,422 new and previously occupied houses and condominiums were sold in the six-county region last month, the most sold in during January since 2013, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported Monday. That marked a 24.6 percent drop from December …
Read More »Office campus sold
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank has completed the sale of Empire Towers I-IV, an office development in Ontario. The complex, which covers 400,976 square feet, sold for $78.5 million, according to a statement released Tuesday. The seller was a joint venture between CIP Real Estate in Irvine and Guggenheim Partners LLC, …
Read More »Housing market starts 2017 strong
California’s housing market got off to a solid start in January. Single-family home sales totaled 420,100 during the first month of the year, up 2.1 percent compared with December and 4.4 percent year-over-year, according to the California Association of Realtors. The median price of a single-family home last month was …
Read More »Housing affordability remains steady
Thirty one percent of California households could afford to buy a median-priced home – $511,360 – during the fourth quarter of 2016, according to the California Association of Realtors. That percentage was unchanged from the third quarter but was up 30 percent year-over-year, the association reported, the Los Angeles-based association …
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