Inner Coastal Clean Up Day - Sep. 20
| Where: | Aliso & Wood Canyons Wildnerness Park Alicia Parkway Entrance 28373 Alicia Parkway Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 |
| When: | 8:00am - 12 Noon |
Attention Anyone and everyone looking to save our beautiful oceans from trash! On September 20th, 2008 the city of Laguna Niguel and Park Safety is hosting a Inner Coastal Clean-Up Day. It will take place at Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, off Alicia Parkway. Arrive early to register, get FREE parking and T-Shirt. Make sure to bring a hat, gloves, sunscreen, water, and closed toe shoes. The Clean-up will take place from 8 AM to 12 Noon. For more information visit www.trails4all.org
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According to this weeks Business Journal, Orange County's 34 cities added people and revenue in the past year with fast growing Irvine overtaking Huntington beach as the third largest city.
The list ranks cities by current population and includes yearly revenue, city workers and large employers. All together, the cities have 2.99 million residents, which is virtually all of the county's 3 million people.
Residents in the cities were up 1%, or 30,555 people, from a year earlier. The five biggest cities- Santa Ana, Anaheim, Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Garden Grove have 1.28 million people, more than 40% of the county's total.
Workers and Revenues have grown too. These cities employ 15,355 people, up to 10 % from a year earlier. Their revenue grew 2.3% to $2.05 billion for 12 months through June.
Irvine was the only city on the list to change its ranking from a year earlier moving up a spot from number 4 and displacing Huntington Beach, the county's longtime largest number 3 spot.
Residents in Irvine grew 4.3 % to 209,806 people, the most growth of any city on the list.
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The House at 154 Pearl Street. Is one of the oldest surviving homes in Laguna Beach, dating back to 1883. Tresor Properties, a partnership that bought the home, plans to restore and renovate the house and build a second unit on the 5,000 square foot lot, just one block inland from the beach.
In 1883, the light bulb was just four years old and Cuba was still apart of Spain, in this same year a small cottage sprang up at 154 Pearl St. in Laguna Beach. The Pearl street house still stands and is one of the oldest surviving home homes in Laguna Beach.
A group of investors paid $3.8 million to buy the two-story board-and-batten residence less than a block from Pearl beach. The ocean view home is now about 1500 square feet, featuring three bedrooms and two baths. It sits o a 5,000 square foot lot. Tresor Properties plans to upgrade the home to meet today's codes using traditional materials and to add about 500 square feet. The firm plans to build a second home on the property as well, creating a condo style two unit property.
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Homes are getting cheaper and sales are going up. The number of Southern California homes sold last month edged up to its highest level in more than a year as bargain hunters swept up foreclosure properties in affordable neighborhoods.
In Orange County, 2,391 homes sold in July of 2007. Just a year later, 2,799 homes were sold, that's a 17.1 percent change from the previous year. The median home price in July 2007 in Orange County was $640,000. In just a year that decreased 28 percent, hitting a low of $461,000.
Market distress indicators continue to move in different directions. Financing with adjustable-rate mortgages is near the all-time low as is financing with multiple mortgages and foreclosure activity is at an all time high. Down payment sizes and flipping rates are stable, non-owner occupied buying activity appears flat but may be emerging, MDA Dataquick reported.
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Dataquick shows the latest home selling stats for the 22 buisness days ended on August 22, the median home-selling price is down to $440,000, off 31.5% vs. a year ago. It hasn't been this low since November 2003.
Steep discounting’s spurring O.C. homebuying, with purchases running 19.4% ahead of the year-ago pace as 12 ZIP codes saw sales volumes double 2007’s totals for the period. July marked the first time since September 2005 that home sales exceeded the year-ago pace.
Single-family homes are $234,000 or 32% below the peak of $734,000 hit in June 2007.Condos are $147,750 or 31% below the peak of $470,000 hit in March ‘06. Newly built homes are $389,500 or 45% below the peak of $864,000 hit in February 2005. Overall, the countywide median is $205,000 or 32% below the peak of $645,000 hit in June 2007.
| Slice | Price | Vs. ‘07 | Sales | Vs. ‘07 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | $500,000 | -29.6% | 1,864 | +27.7% |
| Condos | $322,250 | -28.1% | 729 | +34.8% |
| New | $474,500 | -23.8% | 116 | -56.7% |
| All | $440,000 | -31.5% | 2,709 | +19.4% |
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