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By Editorial Board / Friday, September 9th, 2011 / Editorials, Opinion / 1 Comment
20-somethings are coming to Ventura for tech jobs, but making them permanent residents, the kind who will actually stick around through their 30s and 40s, will be far more difficult.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, September 2nd, 2011 / Columns, Real Estate / Comments Off on MD2 Communities plans 177 new homes in San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo has its first new housing development in years with the proposed 177-home Serra Meadows community in the Margarita Plan area off Prado Road.
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By Editorial Board / Friday, August 12th, 2011 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Editorial: Newhall Ranch will test housing market
In the borderland between Los Angeles and Ventura Counties along the Santa Clara River Valley, a regulatory barrier to a major development has been removed.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Monday, November 15th, 2010 / Columns, Green Coast, Real Estate / Comments Off on Santa Barbara gets a bit greener with new City Ventures project
Santa Barbara is now home to the largest green development of single-family homes in the country. Santa Ana-based developer City Ventures broke ground Nov. 10 on a 48-townhome project in Santa Barbara’s East Beach area. Dubbed the Santa Barbara East Beach Collection, the project is striving for LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, October 29th, 2010 / Real Estate, Top Stories / Comments Off on Hertel partner files $128M bankruptcy
Almost two years after Ventura-based developer R.W. Hertel & Sons was forced into bankruptcy by its creditors, one partner is left holding the bag. Bob Fowler filed one of the largest personal bankruptcies in tri-county history on Sept. 26, listing $127.6 million in debts. Of those liabilities, $105.6 million are personal guarantees Fowler made on Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Monday, October 25th, 2010 / Real Estate, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Foreclosure freeze won
As the nation’s largest home lenders continue their self-imposed foreclosure freezes, economists in the tri-county region say the residential real estate market’s search for the bottom is being delayed. The Tri-Counties had more than 1,200 homes in foreclosure at the end of the second quarter, according to information from research firm DataQuick. That’s up more Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Monday, October 25th, 2010 / Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Foreclosure fiasco’s ground zero: Ventura County offices churned out paperwork
Ask her how many foreclosure documents she worked through in a day at Countrywide Financial Corp., and Linda Martins-Mann says the pace was fast. “I didn’t count how many I processed, but it was a lot,” she said. “Maybe about 500 a day.” Martins-Mann was a foreclosure technician at Countrywide’s Simi Valley offices until the Read More →
