Posts with tag California

First Lynne Curtain gets evicted at the end of the last season, and now this. As fans of the Real Housewives of Orange County get to know the newest member of the franchise's original show, Peggy Tanous, pictured left, she might be more preoccupied with the fight to keep her Irvine home than her newly-found time in the... Continue Reading »

California has hit a record for buyers striking all cash deals for houses, particularly on the ultra-high end. Apparently, some 31 percent of all buyers in California paid cash -- and the higher up you go in the price category, the greater that percentage. For example, 62.2 percent of people buying homes worth at least $5... Continue Reading »

The late, great Cary Grant's historical Hollywood-esque Palm Springs, Calif., estate is up for sale at 928 North Avenida Palmas. The actor was probably the most charming man who ever lived -- tall, handsome, and charismatic. He was born Archibald Alexander Leach and drew record box-office crowds for almost 30 years. Grant... Continue Reading »

It may be no surprise that social media-savvy Ashton Kutcher, who is a Twitter and Facebook addict, is using the Internet to cross-promote his Hollywood Hills home for sale and a nonprofit organization he and his wife, Demi Moore, founded. The $2.6 million listing of his 4-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom Beverly Hills-area former... Continue Reading »

The Captain & Tennille have sold their resort home in La Quinta, Calif., for $660,000, reported the Realestalker. The home was last listed for $724,500. Seventies singing duo Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon, pictured left, reduced the list price of the 4-bedroom home $525,000 from its original list price of around... Continue Reading »

Jenny Craig, queen of diet plans and weight management systems, seems to have put herself on a real estate diet, listing her Rancho Sante Fe, Calif., ranch house for $8.9 million. The new listing comes shortly after Craig, 78, put her next-door thoroughbred race horse training farm on the market for $29.9 million. As... Continue Reading »

If you were to round up a group of silly adolescents, give them all the candy and soda they could ever desire and asked them to come up with a list of names for a utopian community, "Awesometown" would probably be near the top of that list. Newland Hall, a community planner in north Los Angeles County, didn't need the... Continue Reading »

It is exterminator day for the Edelhart family. It's time to get rid of the bedbugs that have been infesting their home for weeks. "I have no idea how I got them," says Courtenay Edelhart, a single mother of two (pictured). "My best guess is they hitched a ride on the used clothes I buy on a regular basis. I shop a lot at... Continue Reading »

No one told Anthony and Rita Bucklew that they were buying the former rental home (pictured at left) of a serial killer. Now the couple, who have teenage daughters, want out of the Colorado home where the murderer is believed to have killed his young female victims. They also want to bolster their state's seller-disclosure... Continue Reading »

Candy Spelling's 56,000-square-foot manor, listed at $150 million, just officially hit the Multiple Listing Service as the most expensive home on the market -- and not just in California, but reportedly worldwide. The 14-bedroom, 27-bath home, located at 594 S. Mapleton Drive in Holmby Hills, has been unofficially on the... Continue Reading »

In vacation home meccas such as California, Florida and Las Vegas -- where foreclosure numbers soared during the housing meltdown -- real estate agents have been employing a new sales tactic: foreclosure bus tours. Next stop? Cincinnati. According to The Cincinnati Enquirer, the trend -- in which Realtors organize... Continue Reading »

"Operation Stolen Dreams" lands another alleged mortgage fraud conspirator this week. Nationwide, the feds have stepped up prosecution of mortgage and bank loan fraud. This time, it's a builder in Chico, Calif., who has been indicted for allegedly selling unsold new homes to non-existent or straw buyers, thereby scamming... Continue Reading »

Fraud, or at least charges of fraud, just keep on coming in the mortgage and real estate world, leaving homebuyers wondering where the oversight is. The criminal courts are getting busier, hearing cases against the employees and executives of the same companies that are supposed to be helping homebuyers. Why is there now... Continue Reading »

Santa Monica is a quaint beachfront town with an easygoing lifestyle that includes almost-daily farmers markets, green buses, and a strong school system -- all things that lend it strong real estate appeal. One problem that's plagued Santa Monica Real Estate, though, and particularly neighborhoods like Sunset and Ocean... Continue Reading »

The California power company Pacific Gas & Electric is receiving a lot of backlash due to the results of its smart meter installations. Smart meters are used to make electronic readings of meters instead of sending out meter-readers; they also are intended to help consumers monitor their energy use. But homeowners... Continue Reading »