| JACOBS: Builders win with subsidies (The Californian) |
| While most of the country is reeling from a downturn in the housing market, Riverside County officials shamelessly proceed with ventures in an unreal-estate marketplace. Tuesday's edition of The Californian had a front page story titled "Battling Blight" about a subsidy program supposedly for first-time homebuyers. |
| 01/05/2009 |
| Investors hunt for bargains in finished lots (The Business Press) |
| Homebuyers aren't the only ones looking for foreclosure bargains in this real estate market. Developers and newly formed "vulture funds" are seeking to buy land at distressed prices, hoping to profit by selling it to homebuilders when the rebound comes. |
| 12/24/2008 |
| Briefs (The Business Press) |
| An Ontario industrial and office park has been sold for $5.6 million, according to a release from the seller's agent. Airport Tech Center, a four-building complex near South Milliken Avenue and East Airport Drive, is currently 80 percent occupied. |
| 12/22/2008 |
| RETAIL: Spending slump deeper in suburbs (The Californian) |
| Economists pin the nation's recession most directly on sharp cutbacks by consumers, and a series of reports last week suggest that consumers in suburban areas of Southern California may be cutting back more sharply than big-city residents. |
| 12/22/2008 |
| Weaker storm expected today (The Press-Enterprise) |
| A second storm system out of the Pacific Northwest expected to hit the Inland area today will pack a weaker punch than originally predicted, National Weather Service forecasters said Tuesday. |
| 12/16/2008 |
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