Real Estate Features Archive

Market Watch - Bouncing Back

It’s always good to look at the long-term picture after any housing or financial crisis. The charts below show the median price of homes throughout Riverside County from 1982 to the present and the Riverside County affordability index.

BY VIC COOPER AND MIKE MCDONALD

Delivering on Palm Springs' Measure J

With one building down in Palm Springs, revitalization moves forward almost a year since voters approved a sales tax increase.

Lynn Lieu

Palm Springs Real Estate Market Shows Signs of Life

Prices rise and inventory shrinks as Coachella Valley real estate regains its health.

Vic Cooper and Mike McDonald

Disney Unfolds Modern, Green Desert Housing

Tim Disney, who sits on the board of Blu Homes, opens the doors of modern and green architecture in Joshua Tree.

Erik Sandoval

As Time Goes By

Four years after his death, Merv Griffin’s estate is on the market for $9.5 million.

Ellen Paris

As You Like It

For every $1 a seller spends on staging, they average $3 in return, says the Palm Springs-based veteran of the housing market. Many times, I have been in competition with a similar listing — the same model of home or condo. My listing sells every time, while their unstaged one sits.

MATTHEW LINK

Inspiration for Sale

Initially an outpost influenced by Spanish architecture, then an experimental pool for midcentury modern pioneers, the Coachella Valley today fires up the imagination with a breadth of styles drawing on influences throughout time and place.

ELLEN PARIS

Betting on Bighorn

A self-admitted risk taker and wizard at turning the impossible into the probable, Depression-raised Hubbard sees much in life as a gamble — but only on his terms, which have proven widely profitable.

KATHY STRONG

The Perfect Landing

Through a family connection, Desert Vintage Realty broker-owner Kay Bastasini landed the listing for a luxury oceanfront villa in the Dominican Republic that was once owned by Mansour Ojjeh, (CEO of TAG Holding Co.

John Lautner’s Windsong

Beaumont police Chief Pat Smith and his wife, Glo, exhausted the real estate listings in Beaumont, Oak Glen, and Cherry Valley when they decided to check out “that other mountain”: The Highway 243 side of the San Gorgonio Pass, rarely traveled except by those en route to Idyllwild.

By Ann Japenga