Yearly Archives: 2014

LAGUNA HILLS, CALIF. - August 19, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- California Association of Community Managers (CACM), the state’s leading community association management education organization, today launched the second phase of its Community Champions awareness campaign

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 19, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of $300 million in grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) announced that $1.02 million would go to fight homelessness among veterans in San Diego. Vietnam Veterans of San Diego will be the recipient of the VA grant

LOS ANGELES - August 19, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lower interest rates in the second quarter of 2014 failed to offset continued home price increases, lowering housing affordability statewide and in 19 of 26 counties in California, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 18, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- In his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request, President Barack Obama proposes limiting the capital gains from the exchange of real estate that can be deferred under Section 1031 to $1 million per taxpayer per year. This provision would apply to like-kind exchanges completed after December 31, 2014. Under this proposal, the Treasury Department would be granted the regulatory authority necessary to implement the provision. The proposal would need to be included in legislation passed by Congress in order to be implemented

Washington, D.C - August 1, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and Rep. Henry A. Waxman, today urged President Obama to request funds to house homeless veterans on the West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs Campus be included in his fiscal year 2016 budget

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 24, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- A 32-year-old man was convicted today of a dozen counts for residential robberies in the San Gabriel Valley, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 24, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, CA) congratulated Yuba, Sutter, and Glenn counties after they secured a number of federal grants this week. Sutter County Airport and Yuba County Airport received almost $170,000 from two Federal Aviation Administration grants. The Yuba-Sutter Economic Development Corporation and 3CORE, Inc. which operates in Glenn, Butte, and Tehama counties, both received $75,000 from the Economic Development Administration

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - July 2, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Charles Dunn Company, one of the largest full-service regional real estate firms in the western United States, has completed the $2 million sale of a fully occupied eight-unit multifamily property located near Michigan Avenue at 1811 19th Street in Santa Monica, Calif

LOS ANGELES - June 30, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Reflecting the proliferating use of social media in today’s society, more home buyers are turning to social media in the home-buying process than ever, according to the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®’ (C.A.R.) “2014 Survey of California Home Buyers.”

LOS ANGELES - June 24, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Higher home values continued to fuel more equity home sales, which have made up more than 80 percent of all home sales for the past 11 consecutive months.  Meanwhile, pending home sales fell in May as investors pulled out of the market due to higher home prices, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today.

SACRAMENTO, CA - June 17, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The California Housing Finance Agency announced today a major program expansion to help more low to moderate income California families purchase homes.

LOS ANGELES - June 17, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- California home sales eased slightly in May as a shortage of homes and housing affordability concerns held back would-be home buyers, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today.  Meanwhile, the median home price posted higher from both the previous month and year for the third consecutive month and remained at its highest level since December 2007

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CA - June 17, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The County of San Bernardino Economic Development Agency was awarded the 2014 Achievement Award in the category of Community/Economic Development by the National Association of Counties (NACo) for its State of the County Event. All told, the County of San Bernardino received 31 Achievement Awards from NACo this year for its innovative programs and services, including top honors for the Countywide Vision as well as the State of the County event, which promotes the Vision

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - June 17, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Charles Dunn Company, one of the largest full-service regional real estate firms in the western United States, has completed two multifamily property sales totaling $4.7 million in West Hollywood. The sales include; a 10-unit property that sold for $3.3 million and is located near Fountain Ave. and W. La Brea Blvd. at 1220 N. Formosa Ave; and a five-unit property that sold for $1.4 million and is located just north of Santa Monica Blvd. at 1231-1235 N. Vista St

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 16, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Joining thousands of Californians eager to fulfill our nation’s promise to returning Veterans, Mercy Housing California, a leading non-profit housing development corporation, will publicly announce their endorsement of California’s Proposition 41 at their newly built El Monte Veterans Village on Monday, June 2 at 1 p.m

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 12, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Statistics for April 2014 have exceeded total housing units from the previous month by 36%. Single-family units produced a 5% increase in month-over-month activity, while increasing annually by 2% from April of 2013. Statewide multi-family housing units increased by 58% since March 2014 and by 43% since last April

SAN DIEGO, CA - May 29, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) --The San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) highlights its activities and its plans for the future in its 2013 Annual Report & Portfolio, released today on the SDHC

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 26, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee today issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s nomination of Mayor Julián Castro of San Antonio, Texas as the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

LOS ANGELES - May 23, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Recent home price gains have lifted more underwater homes into positive territory, pushing the share of equity home sales to their highest level since late 2007.  At the same time, pending home sales were essentially unchanged in April, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today

LOS ANGELES - May 23, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Showing true signs of improvement, California’s housing market continued to perform better than expected in April with both the median home price and home sales increasing month to month, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®  (C.A.R.) said today. However, decreased home affordability remains a challenge for buyers in many areas of the state