Property, Rentals, Transactions

IRVINE, CA - March 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Award-winning KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture and Planning, is pleased to announce that AMLI Residential has received City approval for AMLI Uptown Orange, a 334-unit eco-friendly apartment community located in the City of Orange, Calif. The 5.6-acre urban infill project will be built on the site of an existing DoubleTree Hotel parking lot and will include the construction of two new parking structures, one for the DoubleTree Hotel and one for the apartment community's residents and guests. KTGY is the project's designer and architect.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Request that the City Attorney draft an ordinance amending the appropriate section of the Long Beach Municipal Code to reclassify realtors from independent contractors to employees.

EUGENE, OR - March 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX Broker is pleased to announce that Arman Hartoyan of Trimax Properties, Inc. has chosen to employ the powerful and dynamic software provided by IDX Broker. With Hartoyan partnership with IDX Broker, he is now able to seamlessly integrate California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS) property listings into his search function on his website. This innovative technology truly revolutionized the way potential Encino, California homebuyers find homes online.

EUGENE, OR - March 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Real Estate consultant Justin DeCesare of Middleton and Associates Real Estates located in La Jolla, California has now seamlessly integrated the dynamic IDX Broker software to his website. Perspective clients of DeCesare are now able to search for homes in surrounding areas of La Jolla all with the use of the integration of IDX Broker software and San Diego Regional MLS (Sandicor). With the use of this partnership home seekers of this area can rest assured that DeCesare’s website is providing the best possible property for their search parameters.

EUGENE, OR - March 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc has collaborated with Intero Real Estate of Bay Area, California to create an enhanced website that improves the way their brokers serve their clients’ every real estate need. Intero Real Estate is now an IDX enabled website, which allows them to effortlessly sync their website to thousands of listings within the San Francisco MLS (SFARMLS) and East Bay Regional Data (EBRD). Clients of Intero Real Estate now have access to the same level of property listings once only reserved for real estate agents and brokers

EUGENE, OR - March 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX Broker Inc. and Matthew Weinberg have joined forces to create an innovative property search page that allows his website to have direct access to California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS). With the use of this new groundbreaking software, Peter Lorimer Group Estates is able to truly revolutionize the way potential clients search for properties. IDX Broker software offers the most highly customizable search engine of its kind, allowing home seekers to set the parameters of their search to allow for more accurate search results

EUGENE, OR - March 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce the latest real estate professional who has chosen to integrate an IDX solution onto their website and search pages: Los Angeles, California Realtor Michele Hall. In her continuing effort to provide her clients with quality real estate services that exceed their expectations, she has collaborated with IDX Inc. to demonstrate these values on her website.

EUGENE, OR - March 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Jonathan Marks and IDX, Inc. announce the newly IDX-enabled Alain Pinel Realtors website. San Rafael, California home seekers can now experience a simple and effective online real estate search, conveniently on the Marks’ website. The customized IDX tools Marks now supports automatically display thousands of Bay Area Real Estate Information Services (BAREIS) listings, giving his clients and other online home seekers a comprehensive database of listings to search.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - March 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Hines, the international real estate firm, and Invesco Real Estate, announced today that they have jointly acquired the Rialto Building located at 116 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco’s South Financial District, from Africa Israel USA (AFI USA). Financials on the transaction were not disclosed. Hines will oversee management and leasing of the property on behalf of the partnership

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- This week CHF|CIRB has released the December California Construction Review to subscribers. Overall, California has seen a 5% increase in housing permits from December 2011. Year-to-date permits have increased 22.46% from the same time frame in 2011, increasing from 47,336 permits issued between January and December 2011 to 57,970 total permits for the same time frame in 2012.

LOS ANGELES, CA - February 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- California pending home sales posted the strongest gain in nearly four years during January, rising from both the previous month and year, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported today

BAKERSFIELD, CA - February 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Vallarta Supermarkets, a Sylmar, California-based company that is one of the region’s largest grocery chains catering to the Hispanic market, has purchased a neighborhood center in Bakersfield, Calif., for $14 million, where it will now become both the anchor tenant and the center’s owner, according to Colliers International’s Commercial Investment Services Group.

EUGENE, OR - February 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Nancy Jones are revolutionizing the Rancho Mirage, California real estate search, by enabling IDX Broker software onto the website Jones hosts. As a broker, Jones presents area listings with ease and simplicity on her IDX-enabled website, as Desert MLS (DRMLS) listings are synced to the search she hosts, creating a thorough, comprehensive, and dynamic online database of local listings. By integrating IDX Broker software on her website, Jones has transformed the online real estate marketplace for her clients and her own business

RAMONA, CA - February 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- C.W. Driver, a leader in Southern California healthcare construction, has completed construction on Palomar Health’s Ramona Ambulatory Care Center, a new $4.5 million satellite clinic in Ramona, Calif. When open to the community in March 2013, the 7,600-square-foot, single-story outpatient medical clinic built on approximately an acre of land will expand the healthcare services for the Ramona community

San Francisco, CA - February 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Zephyr Real Estate, San Francisco's largest independent real estate firm, achieved a sales volume of $1.5 billion in 2012, making it the City’s number one real estate brand. Zephyr has consistently been in the forefront in sales volume, technological innovation, and service to the community

LOS ANGELES, CA - February 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Higher home prices offset lower interest rates to reduce housing affordability in California during the fourth quarter of 2012, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported.

IRVINE, CA - February 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Hanley Investment (HI) Urban Retail Advisors, a division of Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors, specializing in the sale and advisory of high profile mixed-use and urban retail properties in dynamic commercial districts across the United States, announced today that Carlos J. Lopez and Edward B. Hanley represented the buyer and seller in the purchase and sale of the ground floor retail portion of the development known as Market Lofts. The purchase price was $18.95 million

LOS ANGELES, CA - February 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A typical seasonal slowdown, combined with a scarcity of available homes for sale put a damper on the California housing market in January, with both home sales and median price declining from December, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported.

Torrance, CA - February 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Clarice Clarke, a 25-year commercial real estate veteran, has been named president of Lee & Associates – Central Coast which include the Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria offices. Clarke, who joined Lee in 2008 as a firm shareholder, will be responsible for all management activities and will oversee the Central Coast offices’ operations, as well as her ongoing brokerage activities. She is currently the only active female president in Lee’s network of 46 offices across the country.

EUGENE, OR - February 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS) listings just got easier to search for on Darren Hubert’s IDX enabled website. IDX, Inc.'s premier software service allows home seekers to quickly scan thousands of property listings right on Hubert’s professional page. With IDX Broker software, all of her clients can demonstrate how easy it is to find the perfect California property online