by Kurt Galitski | Nov 4, 2019 | Costa Mesa
SoCal home sales rose 10.4 percent for the year ended in September 2019, the largest year-over year jump in nearly 3 years! For the month, 19,253 residences, newly built and existing homes, sold in the six-county region vs. 17,440 a year earlier, according to...
by Kurt Galitski | Sep 30, 2019 | Costa Mesa
As Sacramento debates how to overhaul California’s fraud-ridden and poorly regulated addiction treatment industry, Orange County, the ground zero of the “Rehab Riviera,” has taken a homegrown approach to the problem. The D.A’s office formed a Sober...
by Kurt Galitski | Sep 25, 2019 | Costa Mesa
You may own multiple rental properties or you might be new to the game, but either way, if you’re considering obtaining income property there are a few factors to consider. Is this the time to buy and why? Building a portfolio of income property can make you...
by Kurt Galitski | Sep 16, 2019 | Costa Mesa
California lawmakers have approved a program for redevelopment that pumped hundreds of millions of dollars a year into affordable housing and economic development but had been eliminated during the state’s budget crisis eight years ago. Though lawmakers have given the...
by Kurt Galitski | Sep 11, 2019 | Costa Mesa
SoCal builders sold 13 percent more homes in July than 2018 as prices fell 8 percent. CoreLogic reported 1,719 newly built homes were sold in the 6-county region vs. 1,516 a year earlier. Builders’ 13 percent sales increase far outpaced the region’s 3 percent rise for...
by Kurt Galitski | Aug 7, 2019 | Costa Mesa
Key California lawmakers have devised a plan to shift billions of dollars from the Central Valley bullet train to rail projects in SoCal and the Bay Area, a strategy that could crush the dreams of high-speed rail purists. The move is a response to Gov. Newsom’s plan...
