Yearly Archives: 2011

Torrance, CA - June 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Leslie D. Reed, an attorney with the national real estate law firm Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, will be honored with Commercial Real Estate Women-Los Angeles’ 2011 Women on the Rise award at CREW-LA’s Women at the Top event June 22.

Torrance, CA - June 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest national commercial real estate providers with regional expertise, represented both the buyer and seller in a $5.7 million industrial sale at 1400 Victoria Ave., in San Bernardino, Calif.

BURBANK, CA - June 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Robert D. Erickson and Trevor Belden, Principals of Lee & Associates-LA North/Ventura, Inc., completed two lease transactions totaling more than 12,000 square feet in two adjoining Burbank office buildings.

CALABASAS, CA - June 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A multi-tenant industrial building in Canoga Park, CA was sold to a private investor for $2,550,000, according to Jack Schlaifer, Senior Vice President of Lee & Associates-LA North/Ventura, Inc., who represented the seller, H&D Osborne Investments, in the transaction.

Torrance, CA - June 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colliers International, the second largest global real estate services organization, recently negotiated a 70-month lease renewal for a 91,906-square-feet building located at 2805 Columbia St., Torrance, Calif. The transaction is valued at $3.2 million.

LOS ANGELES, CA - June 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the appointment of four new commissioners to the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) Board of Commissioners: Isabel Ayala, Kimberly Freeman, Dennis Hernandez, and Mitchell Kamin.

Washington, DC - June 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) today sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew, asking them to promptly finalize a request to Congress for construction projects, including $20 million for homeless veterans projects on the West Los Angeles campus.

TUSTIN, CA - June 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Coreland Companies of Tustin, Calif., one of the largest private real estate service companies based in California, announced today that its brokerage division has recently negotiated three quick serve restaurant leases in Southern California, totaling 7,300 square feet with a total value of more than $2.5 million. Coreland represented the property ownership in all three transactions

EUGENE, OR - June 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Southern California home seekers can now experience an online real estate search comparable to none, with the dynamic IDX synced website hosted by Merrill deVre and supported by IDX, Inc. As a member of the California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS), deVre has long had access to thousands of area listings. Now, the same ease and accessibility that was once reserved only for agents and brokers is available to clients of deVre, on the IDX enabled website he manages. IDX Broker software allows buyers to utilize the unique tools CARETS and deVre supply to them, forever changing the way home seekers find properties online.

Torrance, CA - June 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, the nation’s largest broker-owned commercial brokerage firm, has closed on the $1.2 million sale of a 10,600 square foot industrial complex at 1746 Tyler Ave., in South El Monte, Calif.

San Francisco, CA - June 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Eric Castongia, a top-producer with Zephyr Real Estate, will be participating in San Francisco’s 25th Annual AIDS Walk on July 17, 2011. Remarkably, Castongia has participated every year since the fundraiser began in 1987.

June 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- “More than two years after the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) was launched, I am pleased that the Administration has finally decided to take enforcement seriously and penalize three servicers who have, as a matter of standard practice, foreclosed on millions of homeowners, often without properly screening them for modifications or otherwise following program rules.

Torrance, CA - June 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- In a move further signaling the evolution of one of the nation’s largest commercial brokerage firms, Lee & Associates has named 34-year industry veteran Duncan Lemmon as president of its West Los Angeles office. Lemmon, who has spent more than half his career with Lee & Associates, will head the office, which has been dominant in the creative office/entertainment sector of L.A.’s West Side.

EUGENE, OR - June 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Christine Schneider announce today the newly IDX enabled website Schneider hosts has been integrated with MLSListings, creating a dynamic and thorough online real estate search for Santa Cruz, California home seekers. Thousands of detailed property listings are now seamlessly linked to the search page Schneider hosts using IDX Broker software. The revolutionary outcome of adopting an IDX solution is now present on the website of Schneider. The simple and easy-to-use real estate website has forever changed the way potential Santa Cruz buyers find homes online.

Torrance, CA - June 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates Central Coast, a full-service commercial real estate brokerage firm, has closed on the $2.1 million sale of a 1.12 acre parcel in San Luis Obispo, Calif., where buyer, Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, will build a 10,000-square foot store due to open in Q1 2012.

Torrance, CA - June 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For Christine Deschaine, it was the running water she missed most. Traveling through the Amazon on a small medical boat, she volunteered to work in a mobile dental clinic and assisted a team providing extractions to those living in remote villages. Almost two weeks passed as she traveled between flooded villages with few modern conveniences. Amidst this exotic jungle and beautiful terrain, that was still the biggest culture shock. Yet the gratitude and welcoming faces of the people she helped made it hard for Deschaine to be anything but grateful herself.

Torrance, CA - June 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Brooks Paine of Keystone Pacific Property Management has earned the Certified Community Association Manager (CCAM®) designation through the California Association of Community Managers.

Torrance, CA - June 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, the nation’s largest broker-owned commercial brokerage firm, has closed on the $9.25 million sale of the Empire Corporate Center office building complex located at 800 N. Haven Ave., in Ontario, Calif.

IRVINE, CA - June 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Award-winning KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture and Planning, is pleased to announce that KTGY’s Principal Manny Gonzalez, AIA, LEED AP and CAASH has been invited to participate in Building Industry Association (BIA) of Southern California 50+ Housing Council program, "'ABC' Demonstration Home - A Preview Before PCBC Debut," on Thursday, June 16, 2011. The new ABC Home, which was designed by Gonzalez, is an "Affordable, Buildable, Certified" Green home designed for Net-Zero energy use that incorporates Universal Design to accommodate people of all ages and capabilities. The first of three demonstration homes planned by Southern California Edison Company, the ABC home will be built in fall 2011.

IRVINE, CA - June 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning, and some of this country's top builders/developers have earned nine Awards of Merit in the 2011 Gold Nugget Award design and planning competition. The awards honor the firm's wide range of capabilities, excellence and innovation in addressing complex design/build issues in attached, detached, sustainable communities, mixed-use, transit-oriented developments, and campus housing. The winning projects include: University of California, Irvine (UCI) East Campus Apartments Phase III; The Crossing at Anaheim in Anaheim, Calif.; Gallery 421 in downtown Long Beach, Calif.; Paragon at Old Town in Monrovia, Calif.; La Floresta in Brea, Calif.; 12th & Burnside in Portland, Ore.; and The Shell House in Nassau, Bahamas.