Monthly Archives: December 2007

As head of the Northern California Home Builders Association, Joseph Perkins has a plan to jump-start the state’s ailing housing market, but he’ll need federal action to succeed. Perkins, executive director of the San Ramon-based, 1,000-member trade group, said he … Continue reading →

Like two lumps of coal in a real estate agent’s stocking, two reports this week underscore California’s depressed real estate market. DataQuick Information Systems, a La Jolla-based company that tracks home sales using public records, says buyers stayed away in … Continue reading →

Homeowners desperately trying to save their dwellings from foreclosure in the subprime lending crisis say they are being led to a series of wrong turns, dead ends and blind alleys as they seek relief from lenders.“Sometimes it takes 45 minutes … Continue reading →

More than 13,600 New Yorkers will receive about $18 million in restitution following a $325 million settlement of the predatory lending case against Ameriquest Mortgage Co. of California. The actual amount of restitution each New York resident will receive depends … Continue reading →

It’s not hard to imagine a real estate agent somewhere in Long Beach saying: “If it can happen at Robert Weil Associates, it can happen anywhere.” One of the city’s premiere real estate firms is closing its doors after 37 … Continue reading →