While San Diego was considered the hottest hotel market in the country during the last couple of years, with many major properties changing hands, including the iconic Hotel del Coronado, the county is apparently losing that reputation to the northern part of the state.
In 2006, San Diego saw 33 transactions, an 8 percent decline [...]

While Woodfin Suite Hotel workers are beefing up union and local support to get the hotel to comply with Measure C, Emeryville’s Living Wage Ordinance for hotel workers, the hotel is flexing its muscle in its own way. Last week the Woodfin filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court—for the second time—claiming the 2005 law [...]

ANTIOCH — Three real estate professionals suspected of using a client’s credit report to buy a $739,000 Brentwood home and pocket the $30,000 commission were released on bail Friday, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Charges of forgery, grand theft, identity theft, falsifying real estate documents and conspiracy were filed in Contra Costa County against Monika [...]

Apartment rents in six northern Alameda County cities went up an average of 10.9 percent last year due to strong job growth and a shortage of apartments, according to a survey released Wednesday by a property owners group.
Rents for all types of apartments in Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Piedmont averaged $1,142 last year, [...]

30-YEAR-OLD legal assistant Vince McGautha, home ownership did not mean a single-family house with a backyard. Instead, the first-time home buyer chose a townhouse in Union City. It was new, had custom features and, just as important, had space for his 2-year-old son, was affordable and close to BART.
Todd Benatar liked the exercise facility, complete [...]

TEN YEARS AGO, the Internet was just beginning to catch on, cells phones were more a novelty than a necessity and a million dollars would buy a nice, spacious house — a new, custom-built, five-bedroom, three and a half-bath, 4,500-square-foot house in the coveted Mission area of Fremont, for example.
What will $1 million buy [...]