Monthly Archives: February 2008

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has taken action against a major builder of manufactured homes by requiring it to recertify its Woodland, California plant. In a settlement announced today, Fleetwood Homes of California has agreed to a HUD-monitored recertification process for its Woodland plant. The company must also provide notification and correction of defects to its consumers, and pay a civil money penalty.

DALLAS -- (Feb. 4, 2008) Mortgage fraud activity jumped past $4.0 billion last year -- with California and Ohio leading the way, according to the FraudBlogger Index published and maintained by

All homes open for inspection from 10AM to 5PM on 02/23/08 and 02/24/08.

Emboldened by a national outcry against the use of eminent domain to seize property for private developments like Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, California landlords have devised an ingenious attack on the state's local rent-control laws: Disguising a statewide referendum to ban them as a measure to reform eminent domain.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Actor, director and Enterprise Community Partners Board Trustee Edward Norton, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, dignitaries and formerly homeless residents gathered today at 9:30 a.m. at the St. George Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the first solar electric system installation for a low-income, multiunit building on the West Coast.

All homes open for inspection from 10AM to 5PM on 02/02/08, 02/09/08 and 02/10/08. 1000+ FORECLOSED HOMES MUST BE SOLD!!

San Francisco – The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco announced today that it is developing a new affordable housing set-aside program, the Homeownership Preservation Subsidy (HPS) program, to help provide a long-term solution for low- to moderate-income homeowners who are at risk of losing their homes because of increases in their monthly mortgage payments.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (Feb. 6, 2008) – Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE), one of the world’s leading commercial real estate services and investment management firms, has renamed Triple Net Properties, LLC, its subsidiary, Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors, LLC.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America's housing market may be fledging but with interest rates hitting historic lows and home prices falling, now is a great time to buy. With the market in their favor, more buyers are heading to foreclosed real estate auctions because they can purchase property at significant discounts. Hudson & Marshall, the country's largest foreclosed real estate auction firm, will auction over 200 bank owned homes in the San Francisco area on February 16th at 11:00am and February 17th at 1:00pm at the Hilton Oakland Airport

Fairfield, Calif., February 4, 2008 - The Fairfield Redevelopment Agency announces an invitation to purchase 4.29 acres of Agency-owned real property. The site offers prime commercial and residential development opportunities and is at 2030 North Texas Street, the former Fairfield Bowl property.