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WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., the U.S. subsidiary of The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI), today released its Winter 2008 U.S. Market Risk Index(SM), which ranks the nation's 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) according to the likelihood that home prices will be lower in two years.

SAN DIEGO, CA – Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that Golden Eagle Insurance Company has renewed its lease of 82,000 square feet on four full floors at 525 B Street, Golden Eagle Plaza, in San Diego.

WASHINGTON, January 4, 2008 - The Justice Department today announced that it has reached an agreement resolving a housing discrimination lawsuit against Gary Luke, Mary Ngo and Hoa Ngo concerning alleged discrimination on the basis of national origin. Under the consent decree filed today in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., the defendants will pay $270,844 in monetary relief to the complainants and the United States.

WASHINGTON, January 4, 2008 - The Justice Department today announced that it has reached an agreement resolving a housing discrimination lawsuit against Gary Luke, Mary Ngo and Hoa Ngo concerning alleged discrimination on the basis of national origin. Under the consent decree filed today in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., the defendants will pay $270,844 in monetary relief to the complainants and the United States.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - December 26, 2007 - Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that in partnership with RREEF’s Real Estate Opportunity Fund (REOF), it has acquired Hawthorne Plaza in San Francisco’s South Financial District. The two-building office complex, located at 75 Hawthorne Street and 95 Hawthorne Street, was purchased from TMG Partners and Farallon Capital Management. The San Francisco office of Eastdil Secured represented TMG and Farallon Capital in the sale. Hines will assume property management and leasing responsibilities

ORANGE, Calif., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Olson Homes, a pioneer in sustainable building practices and a leader in California's move towards in-town, urban living since 1988, is the first attached, new-home community in California to earn LEED Certification from the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and attain a Silver rating. The model homes at Depot Walk feature green construction materials, eco-smart interiors and solar efficiencies.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comerica Bank today announced two new mortgage programs especially designed for California homeowners whose primary homes suffered wildfire damage.

SAN DIEGO, CA, 12/12/2007 – Rex Downing & Associates, a leading real estate firm, and interior decorating firm, Fine Living, announce their donation to the Step-Up Program from the proceeds of the Kensington Holiday Home Tour, which they co-sponsored.

SANTA ANA, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Hendricks & Partners is pleased to announce the sale of the 406-unit Villas at Tustin Apartments, located on the west side of North Tustin Avenue (daily drive-by traffic count of 30,000 cars per day) in Central Orange County.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Environments of Hollywood announces the grand opening of Lacy Studio Lofts, an extraordinary new 45-unit live/work loft complex at 2664 Lacy Street in Lincoln Heights, a downtown urban setting rich in Los Angeles history.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- To help firefighters keep communities safer from wildfires, State Farm is contributing $250,000 total to CAL FIRE and to the California Fire Safe Council.

FAIRFIELD, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- With Sutter Regional Medical Foundation's newly completed third building on Sutter Fairfield Medical Campus, community residents now have access to a full-range of state-of-the-art health care services in one convenient location.

Recent California wildfires have builders searching for information about fire prevention features.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -. A new survey finds that 88% of public rely on Web sites as their primary source for the latest real state news and information, with newspapers coming in a distant second at 12%. The poll reinforces the results of a study earlier this month by the National Association of REALTORS(R) concerning the use of the Internet to buy or sell homes.

Seniors, Homeowners, Renters, Business, Labor, Environmental and Local Government Leaders Are Close to Submitting Signatures for Eminent Domain Reform that Protects Homes Without the Adverse Consequences of Landlords' Hidden Agendas Schem

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The WMA Foundation announced today that members of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association have collected and distributed nearly $90,000 to uninsured residents of three manufactured housing communities in Southern California displaced by the recent fires.

Donald James Grubb Sr., co-founder the successful real estate business The Grubb Company, died unexpectedly Nov. 3 while vacationing with his wife in Palm Desert. He was 83."He was an iconic guy in the Bay Area in the luxury real estate market," said son D.J. Grubb of Piedmont, who now runs the company. "He created a trustworthy brand that survived the dot-com era, fluctuations of the business, and the franchises."

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- TEG/LVI Environmental Services (LVI) - part of LVI Services Inc., one of the nation's largest environmental services and remediation firms - is helping Southern Californians get on with their lives in the aftermath of the wildfires that have destroyed nearly 2,200 homes during the past month.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association Foundation (WMA Foundation) announced today that it had provided direct financial assistance to residents in a manufactured housing community in Fallbrook devastated by the recent fires.

Centralized Online Source of Short-Term Rentals for Displaced Victims of Fires