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         Inner Coastal Clean Up Day - Sep. 20 Where: Aliso & Wood Canyons Wildnerness ParkAlicia Parkway Entrance28373 Alicia ParkwayLaguna Niguel, CA 92677 When: 8:00am - 12 Noon Attention Anyone and everyone looking to save our beautiful oceans from trash! On September 20th, 2008 the city of La...

 Analysis show that Notices of Default, which indicate the start of he foreclosure process, increased in California by 4.8 percent; while both Notices of Trustee Sale and actual foreclosure sales dropped.  Although a traditionally slow month, with the exception of February, Notices of Default hav...

According to this weeks Business Journal, Orange County's 34 cities added people and revenue in the past year with fast growing Irvine overtaking Huntington beach as the third largest city.  The list ranks cities by current population and includes yearly revenue, city workers and large employers....

The House at 154 Pearl Street. Is one of the oldest surviving homes in Laguna Beach, dating back to 1883. Tresor Properties, a partnership that bought the home, plans to restore and renovate the house and build a second unit on the 5,000 square foot lot, just one block inland from the beach.  In ...

Homes are getting cheaper and sales are going up. The number of Southern California homes sold last month edged up to its highest level in more than a year as bargain hunters swept up foreclosure properties in affordable neighborhoods. In Orange County, 2,391 homes sold in July of 2007. Just a ye...

Dataquick shows the latest home selling stats for the 22 buisness days ended on August 22, the median home-selling price is down to $440,000, off 31.5% vs. a year ago. It hasn't been this low since November 2003. Steep discounting’s spurring O.C. homebuying, with purchases running 19.4% ahead of ...

Fountain Valley could be the first in the county to begin a program to buy bank-owned homes and sell them as affordable housing. The Fountain Valley Community Development Agency recently gave unanimous approval for a policy that would allow the city to negotiate with lenders to purchase lender-ow...

Laguna Niguel Home Sales increased in August for the 22 buisness days ending August 26th 2008. There were 72 home sales in Laguna Niguel, which was an increase of 2.9 percent over the previous year. Due to an increase of first time buyers, foreclosures and a decrease in home prices, the median ho...

After hiring nearly 50 lawyers, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP has become the county's largest law firm. Starting this week, the lawyers push intellectual property firm Knobbe Martens past the county's longtime largest firm, Costa Mesa-based Rutan & Tucker LLP. Knobbe now has 170 local lawyers, ...

According to C.A.R. reports, entry-level housing affordability has doubled in 2008's second quarter compared to last year. The California Association of Realtors released a report today stating 48 percent of Los Angeles households could afford to buy an entry-level home in California, compared to...