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What About the Quake Early Warning App?

July 22, 2019

One of the largest earthquakes to strike Southern California in decades rocked Los Angeles residents on the evening of July 5, just a day after the region experienced another major quake. The magnitude 7.1 quake on that Friday night came less than 36 hours after a 6.4 earthquake rippled through the LA area on Fourth […]

Filed Under: At A Glance Tagged With: Caltech, earthquake, Los Angeles Times, seismology, ShakeAlertLA, USGS, warning system

Housing Battle’s Home Front

May 13, 2019

Driven by an explosion in new jobs alongside a lack of sufficient home building to accommodate workers moving into the city, Palo Alto is dealing with a dilemma also faced by other tech hubs across California. Sen. Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50 (which C.A.R. supports) aims to spur home building by requiring local governments to […]

Filed Under: At A Glance, California News Tagged With: Housing, Los Angeles Times, Palo Alto, SB 50, Sen. Wiener, Senate Bill 50

Will Hussle’s Dream for ‘Hood Live On?

April 8, 2019

A banner of Nipsey Hussle is stretched across an exterior of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall. It has been there for most of the year and is easy to spot. On the placard, Hussle is gazing upward, hands clasped as if in prayer or plotting the next move. Given the image was a celebratory banner […]

Filed Under: At A Glance Tagged With: Crenshaw, Destination Crenshaw, development, Los Angeles Times, Nipsey Hussle, strip mall

Market From Builder Perspective

February 11, 2019

“We are really working a little bit harder … to get people in the door and to get people excited,” said Mark Mullin, an agent selling several new projects in the Los Angeles area. A recent pullback in mortgage rates could put some heat back into the market, but there has been a decided shift […]

Filed Under: At A Glance, Industry News Tagged With: Builders, cvarconnect, home search, homebuyers, Housing market, Los Angeles Times, mortgage rates, new homes

CA Housing Issues to Watch in 2018

January 8, 2018

Rising rents and home prices forced California’s housing crisis to the front of Gov. Jerry Brown’s and lawmakers’ agenda in 2017. Legislators passed the most comprehensive package of housing bills in recent memory designed to increase spending on low-income development and encourage more construction in general. But the bills, according to independent analyses, won’t do much to make […]

Filed Under: At A Glance, California News, Government Affairs Tagged With: Assembly Committee on Budget, Assemblymen, California Supreme Court, CVAR, cvar.net, cvarconnect, Housing, LA Times, Los Angeles Times, November 2018, Phil Ting, Prop 13, Proposition 13, rent control, Toni Atkins

CA Supreme Court Rules on Dual Agency Case

November 28, 2016

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously this week that a real estate professional who represented a seller of a home owed a fiduciary duty to not only the seller but also the buyer if the buyer’s agent happens to work for the same brokerage. Some in the industry are closely watching the case and questioning […]

Filed Under: At A Glance, CVAR News, Industry News Tagged With: C.A.R., Coldwell Banker, Dual agency, Los Angeles Times, material facts, Realegal®, San Francisco Chronicle, Supreme Court

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