Yearly Archives: 2012

LOS ANGELES, CA - June 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Real Estate Business Services® Inc. (REBS®), the subsidiary of the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.), today announced a partnership with VerticalResponse, a leading provider of self-service marketing solutions for small businesses including email marketing, social media marketing, online surveys, event marketing, and direct mail marketing, to power its Clarus Connect™ marketing solutions service. Clarus Connect™ will make it easy for California REALTORS® to create, manage and analyze their email marketing, social media, and other marketing efforts from a single easy-to-use platform

SACRAMENTO, CA - June 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the passage of two central elements of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights through a special two-house conference committee. The 4 to 1 vote sends the bills to an expected vote next week in both the Assembly and Senate

LOS ANGELES, CA - June 25, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Pending home sales in California were flat from April but posted double-digit gains from the previous year for the fourth straight month, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported today. Additionally, the share of distressed sales continued to decline from year-ago levels, signaling a return of non-investors to the housing market.

EUGENE, ORE. – Chula Vista, California real estate agent Jason Murguia has collaborated with IDX, Inc. to bring a revolutionary real estate website to...

PEORIA, AZ - June 22, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Pasadena, CA investor paid $3.4 million for a Chase Bank ground lease located at the SEC of Lake Pleasant Rd. & Happy Valley Rd., in Peoria.

Burlington, Vermont - June 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Champlain Housing Trust announced today that the organization has been selected as a winner of the TD Charitable Foundation’s 2011 Housing for Everyone competition, one of 25 selected nationally out of a pool of about 500 submissions.

EUGENE, OR - June 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Olga Finch, of Finch Realty in San Diego, California, has adopted the innovative IDX Broker software from IDX, Inc. to create a simplified online property search not available on any other real estate search site. San Diego Regional MLS (Sandicor) listings are seamlessly integrated onto the website Finch supports, giving her clients and countless other home seekers a thorough and complete list of properties to begin their real estate search with. Never before has such a unique tool been so widely accessible, especially in the online real estate world

San Jose, CA - June 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Santa Clara broke ground on 2525 El Camino Real Senior Apartments, a development by ROEM Corporation, in collaboration with Pacific Housing, Inc. and the City of Santa Clara. The groundbreaking ceremony began at 2:00 p.m. at 2525 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California 95050 (cross streets: El Camino Real and Buchanan Drive).

SACRAMENTO - June 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the Assembly Public Safety Committee passed an important piece of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights that aims to protect California homeowners from fraud and scams.

Torrance, CA - June 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Once named Home of the Year by San Diego Home and Garden Magazine, the 3,700-square-foot oceanfront home, aptly named “Seascape Cardiff,” has hit the market for $4.3 million in San Diego’s coastal beach community, Cardiff by the Sea. Listed by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage agent Kelly Howard, the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom home is a unique architectural dwelling featuring the highest level of modern contemporary appeal.

EUGENE, OR - June 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Bakersfield, California real estate broker Jacob Marquez have created a dynamic real estate search page on the Miramar International website. The Bakersfield MLS (BKMLS) is now synced to Marquez’s search pages, seamlessly displaying thousands of property listings within his professional website. This incredible technology gives home seekers the ability to experience an unprecedented level of access to the BKMLS database, in addition to creating a comprehensive real estate resource for property seekers in the Bakersfield area.

Torrance, CA - June 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest broker-owned commercial real estate firms in the country, has negotiated an industrial lease transaction in Hayward, Calif. The lease, valued at approximately $1.35 million, began in May 2012.

Torrance, CA - June 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Designing Healthcare facilities is a challenge because they are so functionally driven. It requires an architect who understands how healthcare facilities operate, and who has an aesthetic philosophy that merges functional efficiency with design excellence.

Long Beach, CA - June 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Neighborhood Resource Center and Union Bank will present a "First-Time Home Buyer" workshop on Saturday, June 23, from 10 am to 1 pm at 1900 Atlantic Avenue in the second floor conference room. The workshop is free, and free parking is available behind the Union Bank building.

Orange County, CA - June 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Seth Davenport and Mitch Zehner of Voit Real Estate Services’ Anaheim office have completed two industrial transactions in Orange County encompassing 54,078 square feet for a total consideration of $6.2 million

IRVINE, CA - June 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning, and some of this country's top builders/developers have earned 15 Awards of Merit in the 2012 Gold Nugget Award design and planning competition. The awards honor KTGY's outstanding commitment to research, and knowing and understanding the end-user -- both buyers and renters -- to create successful projects. The winning projects feature both single-family detached, townhomes and multifamily developments encompassing sustainable communities, mixed-use, urban infill, transit-oriented developments, and senior and campus housing. Grand Award winners will emerge from the Award of Merit circle, and all award winners will be celebrated at the Gold Nugget Awards Luncheon at PCBC on Thursday, June 28, 2012, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - June 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- International real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW) today announced the acquisition of Torrey Pines, a 251-unit apartment community in West Covina, CA. The company and its partners purchased the property for $43.7 million, with $33 million in financing from Freddie Mac at 3.91%, fixed for ten years. The company’s multifamily portfolio currently consists of ownership interests in 14,114 units, including deals currently under contract.

LOS ANGELES, CA - June 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- California’s housing market continued to improve in May, with home prices posting solid gains for the third straight month and home sales well above last year’s pace, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today.

TUSTIN, CA - June 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Present Value Properties, Inc., a full service retail real estate brokerage, and consulting firm headquartered in Tustin, Calif., announced today that it has represented self-service yogurt chain Menchie's Frozen Yogurt franchisee in a lease transaction in San Mateo County in Belmont, Calif.

Washington, DC - June 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-01) today announced a $145,837 federal grant that will help provide permanent housing and support to veterans on the North Coast. The grant, provided through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), will be administered by the North Coast Veterans Resource Center and Humboldt County Housing Authority. The funds will be used as vouchers to provide rental assistance for homeless and disabled veterans. Twenty-five vouchers were awarded.