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Long Beach Residential Inventory Decreased by 50%
The September graph, shows for a one-year period, the number of for sale residential properties throughout the City of Long Beach (single family houses, condos and lofts). In September 2008, there were 2,265 properties on the market; in September 2...
Sales Increasing Now, What Will Next Year Bring?
There is a great deal of talk lately about the upward climb in sales, that maybe we're seeing the bottom of the market, and that prices are down from this time last year, but it's the 5th straight month of sales increases, and the best sales record i...
Long Beach Summer Park Concert Series
Long Beach Municipal BandSummer 2009 - Centennial Concert SeriesJune 30th through August 14thAll concerts start at 6:30 p.m.PERFORMANCE DATES AND LOCATIONSWEEK 1 - (June 30 - July 3)1909-1924: In 1909 the City of Long Beach announces the formation of...
Long Beach Home Tour and Slideshow
For more information about Long Beach, and local sales information, contact:Julia Huntsman, Broker AssociateAll California Brokerage, Inc.562-896-2609www.juliahuntsman.com...
Holiday Things to Do and See in Long Beach
If you were a tourist in the area, what would you like to visit? (Or, maybe you live here, but you're looking for something to do in the holiday period.)The Long Beach Museum of Art, in a former turn-of-the-20th-century residence, is on the bluff ove...
Long Beach First-Time Home Buying Assistance
Good news for first time buyers in the Long Beach area: The buyer affordability index is higher than it's been in several years--in Los Angeles County it's up to 40% or higher. Condo prices in particular have softened a great deal, and house prices ...
How Many REO and Short Pay Properties Are There in Belmont, Alamitos Heights?
The filing of notices of default increases each quarter in California, per Dataquick on October 23rd, "Foreclosure resales have emerged as a major market factor, accounting for 47.6 percent of all California resale activity last quarter" but not all ...
Recent Market Activity in Long Beach--It's A "Sold" Time
The constant reporting on the number of foreclosures, i.e., such as this today from Inman News:"California had the highest volume of foreclosure filings, with filings reported on 71,930 properties" is not saying what else is going on.Unfortunately, I...
Decline is in Sales Volume, Then Prices
Follow the pink line to the end of the first quarter--March 31, 2008--to see the continuing trend of sales volume falling at a much steeper curve than sales prices for Long Beach. Tighter loan guidelines and less available funds for loans keep fiina...
Downtown "Fun Bus" to Broadway and 4th St. Businesses
The Big Red “Fun Bus” is a free ride on Thursdays from 6 pm to Midnight and Saturdays from 1 pm to 6 pm – as a way of connecting all the cool shops and dining establishments along Broadway and 4th Street between Pine and Redondo while passenger...
Condo Listing in downtown Long Beach at The Sovereign
Downtown opportunity with this one bedroom/one bath condominium in a historic building, listed at $320,000, at The Sovereign which is a designated landmark building by the City of Long Beach.This corner unit features hardwood floors and the original...
California Median Prices are Down and Up
The most recent California median prices, as reported by Dataquick for November, 2007, vary by area (figures reflect houses and condos together):In Long Beach, zip code 90803 which is Bluff Park, part of Belmont Heights, Naples, Belmont Shore area, t...
Long Beach Neighborhood Price Roundup for End of 2007
Happy New Year to All--here is my first post for 2008, a round up of some local prices for houses and condos in several Long Beach neighborhoods in the last quarter of 2007, for which I shamelessly ask for a sign-in. Unlike the recession of the mid-1...
Do Abandoned Oil Wells Impact Your Neighborhood
In early Southern California real estate, homeowners were enticed into additional income by having an oil well, literally in the back yard behind a little bungalow house. On a larger scale, oil was drilled for in certain areas which coincide with ear...
Long Beach's University By The Sea - October 28th
A great event this Saturday: film, classes, a tour into the old Jergins Tunnel which has been closed since 1967.An unbeatable event! Click on the title to go to their web page for all the free events and indulge in some past history.Long Beach long b...
Long Beach Buying Opportunities Under $300,000
Wow --- in a check on today's MLS, there are 360 listings under $300,000: single family, own-your-owns, condos and coops. Some of them are previous foreclosures and are now bank-owned properties, although if you look online, you won't see that in th...
Two Upcoming Arts Shows
Local artist Dawn Morishige is having an artist reception in her Buyart Studios at 2828 E 10th St., Long Beach on November 3rd, 2-8 pm for a show that runs through November 24th.Dawn's contemporary room dividers are remniscient of Japanese screens, a...
Market Activity in East Long Beach 90815 for September 2007
According to residential resale transactions recorded at the Los Angeles County Recorder's office for August, there were 306 transactions in zip codes 90802 through 90815--a decrease of 18% in sales for the same period in 2006 for the same area which...
Sales Activity Comparisons for Long Beach and Cerritos
The number of houses selling over $1,000,000 in the 90803 zip code now equal about half of total sales of single family homes during July and August. While there are those who say that this fact skews the overall median price, it's still a fact that...
Local Water Use Restrictions
The City of Long Beach has declared a water shortage and issued revisions to the municipal code concerning water use which ought to be of interest to all Southern California cities.Record low rainfall and an 8-year drought in the Colorado River water...
Southern California's Hot Weather Breeds Mosquitoes
Last year's news on the West Nile virus is really still with us, so much so that the Department of Public Health for the State of California recently published a bulletin about standing water and green pools. It's mainly directed towards real estate...
Not All Pricing Trends Are Down ...
. . . in fact, some are up. Writer Kenneth Harney, based in Washington D.C., reported August 12 about median price increases in Chevy Chase-Bethesda areas, by zip code.In today's Los Angeles Times, a convenient interactive zip code finder is an inter...
Plusses and Minuses of Long Beach Condo Conversions
National homeownership by the end of the Clinton Administration supposedly rose to about 65%, the highest ever recorded. But, according to the City of Long Beach within the last few years, during that same time period, that was about how many non-own...
Long Beach Housing and Traffic
City government sometimes gets lost in the shuffle of the more immediate concerns of day-to-day life, foreclosures, media coverage of housing, more foreclosures and homeland security. But it shouldn't be, because your local areas are often under one...
Cooper Arms: Co-op to Condo
Originally conceived in 1922 as the most luxurious co-operative apartment building in Long Beach, it was rival to the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles and the Huntington and Maryland Hotels in Pasadena. The construction of the Cooper Arms reflected the...
Long Beach Ebell: Gone to Lofts, Every One
Long Beach Heritage Museum photoThis conversion took place with the theatre portion of the Ebell Club on 3rd Street. It's namesake in Los Angeles is regarded as very important culturally and architecturally. Fortunately, the original theatre part of...
