Absentee owners investing in O.C. [Southern California]

Absentee owners investing in O.C. [Southern California] The true role of real-estate investors in the Orange County housing market is tricky to gauge. One accounting of their activity – tracking folks who buy property but send the tax bills to another address – shows that these sales continue to be strong. In 2005, market watcher …

$1 million home sales increase sharply [Central Florida]

$1 million home sales increase sharply [Central Florida] Sales of single-family existing homes priced at more than $1 million soared 270 percent in Metro Orlando during the past three years, a new analysis shows. The growth in home prices as well as the surge in the size of homes has helped the trend, according to …

Quiet title lawsuit can clear title of missing owner

Quiet title lawsuit can clear title of missing owner Seller’s absent boyfriend still on property title DEAR BOB: I am a real estate broker with an opportunity to obtain a listing on a beautiful house. But there is one little problem. The seller says her boyfriend moved out about 15 years ago and she hasn’t …

Building boom continues

The Beaufort Gazette: Building boom continues County sees spike in condos In a week, Malcolm and Susan Goodridge will start making 2,400 square feet of marshside space their own, moving into a first-floor condominium and finding ways to fill the three bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms that now sit empty and dusty from construction. Their new …

Nonprofit Market Creek Plaza offers Diamond district residents up to a 20% investment stake

Nonprofit Market Creek Plaza offers Diamond district residents up to a 20% investment stake Neighbors of the 10-acre Market Creek Plaza in southeast San Diego are being offered a piece of the action. The nonprofit owner of the shopping center on Euclid Avenue, just south of Market Street, has developed an investment plan that will …