lansner.ocregister — Click to enlarge Bank-owned homes and other foreclosure resales made up a smaller proportion of Orange County transactions in 2011 than in prior years, a sign that distressed homes are less of a drag on the local housing market. An average of 22.8% of the homes sold in O.C. last year had...
blogs.ocweekly — Ahead of yesterday's Anaheim city council meeting, a mailer to city residents from the Orange County Employees Association and numerous news reports on recently approved tax incentives for two... Continue reading "Anaheim GardenWalk Tax Breaks Speak of a Tale of Two Cities" >
blogs.ocweekly — The Washington Post compared the annual financial disclosure reports filed by every member of Congress over the past decade to various public records and discovered that nearly 50 senators and... Continue reading "Reps. Gary Miller and Ken Calvert Get Their Assets Handed Back to Them"...
blogs.ocweekly — Doug Korthof saw a world where we would all be driving electric cars powered by batteries in our garages that are charged by the Sun's rays captured by solar panels on rooftops. He had the perfe... Continue reading "Doug Korthof, Enviro and Electric-Car Activist, Loses...
ocregister — BUENA PARK – On the outside, the Crescent Motel looks like another modestly-priced accommodation along Beach Boulevard. City documents, however, say many of the motel's rooms have cockroach infestations, soiled carpets and holes in the doors and...
lansner.ocregister — Mazda North American Operations — the Japanese automaker’s U.S. branch headquartered in Irvine — bought a complex of three Orange County buildings for $27.75 million, says broker Voit Real Estate Services. Mazda spokesman Jeremy Barnes said his company decided it made sense from a cost standpoint to purchase the Irvine office/industrial...
blogs.ocweekly — Monterey Bay-area cocktail waitresses, adult actresses and assorted skanks, consider this your warning:Cypress-born Tiger Woods says, "My body is feeling explosive." If you ever needed a golf t... Continue reading "Tiger Woods "is Feeling Explosive"" >
blogs.ocweekly — Four Hermes purses worth $126,000 were stolen from a Newport Coast home Saturday.Because there is usually (read: always) less money in my wallet than the actual cost of the billfold, I guess I c... Continue reading "Burglar Has Good Eye for Purses, Takes 4 Hermes...
ocregister — TUSTIN – A decision has been made on two guest homes in Old Town Tustin after a year and a half of meetings and hearings. The city on June 16 had red-tagged the guest homes at 520 Pacific St. in June citing safety concerns, and required tenants to...
lansner.ocregister — Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” A stately, 10,000-square-foot ocean-front mansion that the U.S. government sold in 1999 for $12 million is back on the market — for $45 million. The State Department: Better at diplomacy than real estate? — Washington Post Luxury Bermuda home...
lansner.ocregister — Standard Pacific officials reported that they sold the last two homes in the luxury Tides project in Crystal Cove. Click to see pictures Irvine-based homebuilding company Standard Pacific Homes reported this week its first profitable quarter in more than a year at the end of 2011, spurred by improved sales and...
blogs.ocweekly — Folks in the media: just because Itzcoatl Ocampo is accused of butchering six people to death doesn't mean it's okay to butcher his first name. Oh, it's understandable: outside of food terms and... Continue reading "Television and Radio Broadcasters: Please Stop Mispronouncing "Itzcoatl"" >
sciencedude.ocregister — The San Onofre nuclear plant south of San Clemente. Register photo by Jebb Harris. Both reactors at the San Onofre nuclear plant remain offline while analysis continues after a leak in a steam-generator tube caused the shutdown of one reactor last week. The other reactor, which was already offline for maintenance, showed...
ocregister — LAKE FOREST – A plan for a development of nearly 700 apartments will go to the City Council for a pre-application review today. The proposal — planned for a 30-acre parcel owned by the Baker Ranch family — is between the 241 Toll Road, Portola...
blogs.ocweekly — It was just a few weeks ago when Costa Mesa Mayor Gary Monahan declared his support for regulating medical marijuana during a pro-legalization panel discussion at his restaurant/bar Skosh Monaha... Continue reading "Bizarre Costa Mesa Pot Shenanigans Behind Tonight City Council Protest" >
ocregister — The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday continued a vote on a proposed regional park at the north Tustin blimp hangar. The board rescheduled the vote to its Feb. 28 meeting. If the Board of Supervisors approves the concept plan for the...
blogs.ocweekly — A Santa Ana law firm representing a 32-year-old cyclist who was injured in a collision with a shuttle bus near John Wayne Airport announced "a large multi-national corporation" has agreed to pay... Continue reading "Airport Shuttle Owner Reportedly Settles Cyclist's Lawsuit for $6 Million" >
lansner.ocregister — Ladera Ranch is hot. Corona Del Mar is not. That is one conclusion you can draw from the neighborhood slice of the latest O.C. home inventory report from Steve Thomas and his ReportsOnHousing.com. His math shows: February 2 February 2 … The Orange County town with the fastest-selling homes in terms of...
blogs.ocweekly — The Disney History Institute just released a newly transferred and retouched full-color home video that was shot in Disneyland in 1957. The park was less than two years old when the footage was ... Continue reading "1957 Disneyland Home Video Surfaces" >
blogs.ocweekly — There is nothing funny about sexual assault, but an Orange County Register courthouse reporter named Jolly inadvertently published two memorably hilarious lines this week from the trial of an a... Continue reading "One OC Register Sex Crime Story Produces Two Golden Nuggets!" >
lansner.ocregister — Distressed properties were 34% of Orage County homes listed for sale and 48% of the residences recently put into escrow. Steve Thomas of ReportsOnHousing.compublishes every two weeks a report on the supply of local homes for sale and the share of that inventory that’s distressed properties — foreclosures and short sales....
blogs.ocweekly — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage.A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that Proposition 8, which limits marriage to one man and on... Continue reading ""Dangling Carrrot": Court Strikes Down Proposition 8" >
blogs.ocweekly — In California, would-be Realtors have to pass an examination to obtain a valuable, state-issued license.But there is no requirement that Realtors know a damn thing about activating a camera o... Continue reading "Horrible Home For Sale Photos of the Day!" >
lansner.ocregister — Orange County’s housing market speed — by one measure — quickened 21.9% in the past two weeks and sped up 34.7% in a year. The latest Orange County home inventory report from Steve Thomas and ReportsOnHousing.com — data as of February 2 — includes these thoughts … Typically Super Bowl Sunday...
lansner.ocregister — Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” It was a disappointing end to the Super Bowl for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife, super model Gisele Bundchen. But at least they have a nice place to recover in — right here...