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California Sues Costa Mesa, Ridgecrest and Calexico in Five-City Housing Element Crackdown
California’s housing regulators dragged three Southern California cities into court over long-overdue housing plans, part of a five-city enforcement sweep that puts local...
LA County Property Values Reach Record $2.27 Trillion, Beating Assessor’s Own Forecast in Wildfire Year
Los Angeles County Assessor Jeff Prang announced a 2026 assessment roll of $2.272 trillion in net taxable value, a 4.42 percent gain that...
SpaceX’s Record IPO Unleashes a Coastal Buying Wave, and South Bay Housing Is Ground Zero
SpaceX’s $75 billion public debut has created thousands of new millionaires clustered in Los Angeles County’s aerospace corridor, and brokers from Manhattan Beach...
Melia Homes Wins Approval to Replace Vacant Orange Best Buy With 71 Small-Lot Homes
Irvine-based Melia Homes has secured City of Orange approval to demolish a long-shuttered Best Buy on Tustin Street and build a 71-home small-lot...
KB Home’s California-Led West Coast Bucks the Slump on Orders as Prices Retreat
KB Home’s West Coast region, anchored by its core California markets, was the lone bright spot for new orders in a difficult second...
MSM Global Ventures Lists 11-Parcel, 4-Acre Laguna Beach Beachfront Compound for $95MM
A Newport Beach investment firm has placed a nearly 4-acre, 11-parcel oceanfront assemblage above Thousand Steps Beach on the market for $95 million,...
Lennar Holds Volume, Cuts Incentives as Affordability Pressure Drives Southern California From Coast to Inland Empire
Lennar’s second-quarter results put its volume-first playbook on display, pairing the first sustained drop in buyer incentives in three years with record cost...
Meritage Homes Buys Aliso Viejo Office Site for $14MM, Clearing the Way for 61 Townhomes
Meritage Homes has acquired a vacant Class B office complex in Aliso Viejo for $14 million and will demolish it to build 61...
Newport Beach Planning Commission Backs 132-Unit Office-to-Townhome Conversion on Dove Street, Tied to $5.46MM Park-Fee Concession
Newport Beach’s Planning Commission unanimously recommended that the City Council approve a 132-unit for-sale townhome community on a 6.5-acre office site near John...
CalWest Clinches $55MM in Q1 Home Sales as San Diego Builder Doubles Down with 4.99% Rate Buydowns
The Carlsbad-based private developer sold 62 homes across its San Diego County communities in the first quarter and prepares to break ground on...
John Burns Says Land Markets Enter “Selective Growth” Phase as Builders Push 73% of Lots Off Balance Sheet
Ken Perlman’s 2026 land playbook lays out a market split between A-and-B winners and C-and-D laggards, with land banking, attainable product and master-planned...
Berkshire Hathaway Strikes $8.5B Deal to Take Taylor Morrison Private in Buffett-Era Housing Bet
All-cash .50-per-share offer hands Greg Abel his first marquee acquisition and gives Berkshire its first production-scale homebuilder. Warren Buffett’s successor wasted little time...
