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- Catching up on history
Historians typically spend years researching, writing, and proofing ... and then one day their books appear in the local bookstore.
- NEWS AND NOTES ABOUT REAL ESTATE AND OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT
The Front Porch
Some real estate agents in San Diego and other major cities continue "to direct clients to specific neighborhoods on the bases of race or ethnicity," a newly published study has found.
- Lenders predict sales record in 2005
WASHINGTON – The hot U.S. housing market will hit records in 2005 but begin to cool off in 2006, the Mortgage Bankers Association said recently in a forecast that changed earlier predictions of a slowdown this year.
- Mapmakers can't keep up with development
RIVERSIDE – Explosive growth in Riverside and San Bernardino counties is keeping mapmakers busy with the addition of more than 2,700 new streets in recent years.
- Tahoe prices continue upsurge
RENO, Nev. – Home prices continue to soar at Lake Tahoe, where the number of abodes selling for $1 million or more jumped 49 percent this year over last, according to a new survey.
- NATION'S HOUSING KENNETH HARNEY
Have-nots more likely to lose property
WASHINGTON – Is your home more vulnerable to eminent domain seizure by your local government in the wake of the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision June 23 in Kelo v. City of New London?
- REAL ESTATE MAILBAG ROBERT J. BRUSS
Tax exemption good for up to 3 years
I am 84 and in excellent mental health. Everyone says I'm "sharp as a tack." For the last two years I have lived in a beautiful assisted-living center.
- 'Subject to' book would benefit from samples of forms
"Investing in Real Estate with Lease Options and 'Subject to' Deals" by Wendy Patton is a reliable new book about profiting with lease options and taking title to houses "subject to" their existing mortgages.
- Infomercial real estate gurus aren't presenting reality TV
Real estate prices are soaring, which means the real estate investment-seminar business is booming.
- The housing boom keeps tax revenues and spending high
WASHINGTON – The U.S. housing boom is swelling tax revenues, but for many municipal officials it is creating new headaches: higher spending on infrastructure, growing demand for property tax relief and worries about a real estate slowdown.
- Once-booming Australian housing market softens
SYDNEY, Australia – For several years, dinner party chatter here did not linger on favorite Australian subjects like rugby, cricket, sailing and surfing or even politics. No, all the talk was of real estate: how much a house was worth, how much more this year than last, and how much more valuable it would be next year.
- Ordinance may save older trees from the ax
WATSONVILLE – Residents may soon be blocked from chopping down trees.
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