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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 29, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — The San Francisco office of Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that 75 Hawthorne at Hawthorne Plaza is the first multi-tenant office building in San Francisco to receive Gold certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® for Existing Buildings rating system. 75 Hawthorne is a 20-story Class A office building that is owned and managed by Hines.

April 21, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — You’re invited to check the status of your grant proposal in the grants clearinghouse. The decisions that have been made are preliminary funding decisions at this time based on funding and the next steps in the Clearinghouse.

April 14, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) hosted a field hearing of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity in Los Angeles on March 28. The hearing, “The Housing Crisis in Los Angeles and Responses to Preventing Foreclosures and Foreclosure Rescue Fraud,” brought together panelists to share testimonies on their experiences with foreclosure issues in Los Angeles area.

March 27, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — On February 17, 2009 President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus package. Overall, the stimulus is a mixed bag for the real estate industry, as it provides some significant benefits but several provisions beneficial to the industry were scaled back significantly in the final negotiations between the House and Senate.

New York, N.Y., - February 06, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Turner Construction Company, the nation’s leading builder of healthcare facilities, has been given approval by Northern Inyo Hospital to proceed with the $42 million Phase Two expansion to the hospital facility. Construction for Phase Two will start in March 2009 with completion scheduled for March 2011.

February 03, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — Nearly 200 HBANC members and friends were on hand this past Friday for the Association’s Annual Installation Gala, which was held this year in Oakland on the top floor of the Marriott City Center, which boasts one of the Bay Area’s most panoramic views

NORWALK, CA - December 23, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — Following its carefully constructed three-year asset disposition plan, Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Management Group (KW Multifamily) has sold The Courtyards, a 153-unit apartment community at 12401 Studebaker Road in Norwalk, CA. KW Multifamily is a division of the Beverly Hills-based international real estate services and investment company Kennedy Wilson.

December 22, 2008 - (RealEstateRama) — The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved a plan on December 11 to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The climate change "scoping plan" is a central requirement of AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which was signed into law in September of that year.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the national real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, conducted two auctions of 41 luxury model homes on May 31st, and June 1st, 2008

March 17, 2008. SACRAMENTO – The pace of home sales at California new-home communities began 2008 with a sluggish pace, the California Building Industry Association reported today, prompting CBIA to reiterate its call for the state Legislature to quickly take action to assist homebuilding, one of the state’s leading industries.

A statewide proposition on the June ballot could hurt an estimated 120,000 Riverside and San Bernardino county residents living in mobile home parks, opponents of the measure say.

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.

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.

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

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Plagued by a persistent tide of foreclosures, a surplus of inventory and falling prices, California's housing market is one of the worst in the nation. Yet in this knocked out market buyers rule the roost and can find lots of deals on properties, particularly at auctions of bank-owned homes.

CHICAGO and LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheldon Good & Company Auctions, LLC , the nation's largest real estate auction company, in one of the most exciting offerings of emergent destination- oriented recreational properties, today announced that it has been retained to auction a 235-acre beachfront development site in Bahia de Los Angeles (Baja, California, Mexico).

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - January 16, 2008 - Wachovia Wealth Management today announced 20 new hires across Northern and Southern California, continuing to build a team to deliver the full range of wealth management services to high net worth individuals, their families and businesses. As part of the build-out, Wachovia is establishing Legal Specialty Group teams in San Francisco and Los Angeles to serve the unique financial needs of law firms and attorneys.

Sacramento, CA - Today, a broad-based coalition of California property owners announced that the California Secretary of State has certified the qualification of the "California Property Owners and Farmland Protection Act" for the June 2008 ballot. In November of last year, a coalition of home and business owners, family farmers and taxpayer groups submitted over 1.1 million signatures.

IRVINE, CA - January 16, 2008 - Wachovia Wealth Management today announced 20 new hires across Northern and Southern California, continuing to build a team to deliver the full range of wealth management services to high net worth individuals, their families and businesses. As part of the build-out, Wachovia is establishing Legal Specialty Group teams in San Francisco and Los Angeles to serve the unique financial needs of law firms and attorneys.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, ranked REALTOR.com as the most visited real estate website in December 2007(1). Zillow.com ranked number ten, falling three positions from November to December 2007(1).