| See $2.2 million home occupied by squatters (Photos) |
| The squatters are gone. Today , the Newport Coast home is "immaculate," according to its agent.Richly furnished, the $2.2 million, 3,200-square-foot house has freshly painted walls, shiny wood and tile floors and new carpeting, pictures show.It wasn't that way when... |
| 02/06/2012 |
| Kobe Bryant Suffers Real Estate Loss in Divorce |
| Turns out that the $4 million diamond ring Kobe Bryant gave his wife after his extramarital affairs became public years ago was only a warm-up act. With the Lakers' star and Vanessa speeding to divorce, Kobe will now pay big-time for the lack of a prenuptial agreement with the mother of his two daughters. Recent reports show that Kobe has transferred over all three of his luxury Orange County ... |
| 01/25/2012 |
| Newport homes twice as hard to sell |
| The overall Newport Beach home market - beach communities, Corona del Mar and Newport Coast - had 595 residences listed for sale as of Jan. 5 with 81 new deals opening in the past 30 days. That means, by one theory, it would take 7.35 months to sell all inventory at current pace of new escrows in... |
| 01/19/2012 |
| Finding the Deals is the Challenge |
| NEWPORT BEACH, CA-“The borrower landscape in 2012 will be interesting. Interest rates are at historically low levels, and multifamily financing is available, but finding a deal can be the challenge…they aren’t widely available.” |
| 02/06/2012 |
| Homebuying slips in 46 ZIPs! Yours? |
| For calendar month December -- DataQuick's freshest stats -- the Orange County real estate market had homebuying patterns showing:MOOD RING (Green's hot; red's not yellow in between!)SlicePriceCh.SoldCh.House$449,000-4%1,621-5%Condo$260,000... |
| 01/17/2012 |
| Home prices, sales up in 11 ZIPs! Yours? |
| SlicePriceCh.SoldCh.House$450,000-5%1,604-4%Condo$256,000-9%762+3%New$587,000+17%219-32%All OC$400,000-5%2,585-6%For the 22 business days ending December 28 -- DataQuick's freshest stats -- the Orange County real estate... |
| 01/13/2012 |
| O.C. high-end home sales off 10% |
| How’s the local upper-crust real estate faring? For calendar month December — by DataQuick’s math — homes sales in Orange County’s 10 priciest ZIP codes totaled 172 — that is down 9.9% vs. a year earlier. In the rest of Orange County —... |
| 01/24/2012 |
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| 01/31/2012 |
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