Residents of a community near Hemet are battling a proposed development that they believe would bring too many houses to their rural community. Meadowview, which has been in the planning stages for four years, would be built in Reinhart Canyon between the Four Seasons, an upscale retirement community, and Maze …
Read More »Two Inland housing agencies receive donations
Wells Fargo will donate $6 million to 54 nonprofit agencies, including two in the Inland Empire, that will be used to help stabilize and revive neighborhoods that have been hurt by the economy. Mary Eckerson Community Housing in Riverside and the Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire will both …
Read More »Presley house sells
A Palm Springs home that once belonged to Elvis Presley has been sold. The home, at 845 W. Chino Canyon, was to have been put up for auction on Saturday, but the seller accepted an offer on the house before the auction started, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. …
Read More »Survey: young adults do want to own a home
Who said millennials don’t care about owning a house? That may be the fear of some homebuilders, but the assumption might not be true, according to a report released Thursday by the California Association of Realtors. More than half of the young adults [ages 18 to 34] questioned said they …
Read More »Fair-housing entities get federal money
Two fair-housing organizations in the Inland Empire have received grants through the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board has been given $157,613 by the federal agency to help improve its investigations and education efforts into mortgage fraud, foreclosure repair schemes and predatory lending, …
Read More »State housing market called “steady”
Home sales in California stayed below 400,000 in September, the 11th consecutive month the market failed to reach that number. Statewide, 396,440 single-family detached housing units closed escrow last month, a 0.4 percent increase from August but a 4.2 percent decline compared with September 2013, according to data released Wednesday …
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