• Chicago company buys Vista apartments for $185M in one of the year’s biggest sales,Phillip Molnar

    Chicago company buys Vista apartments for $185M in one of the year’s biggest sales

    A Chicago investment firm has bought a Vista apartment complex for $185 million in the second-largest deal of the year in the county.Mesirow Financial, a privately held financial services outfit, paid $451,220 per unit for the Preserve at Melrose Apartments — a deal real estate tracker CoStar said s

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  • California home-repair costs jump 40% in 5 years,Jon Lansner

    California home-repair costs jump 40% in 5 years

    “How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market.The pain: California’s home-repair inflation rate has more than doubled during the past five years.The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the California slice of the Verisk Remodel Index. These insurance ind

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  • Balboa Park’s Botanical Building reopens after $26.5M restoration,Jennifer Van Grove

    Balboa Park’s Botanical Building reopens after $26.5M restoration

    San Diego’s 109-year-old Botanical Building, a popular landmark in the heart of Balboa Park, will reopen to the public Friday afternoon for the first time in nearly three years after being almost entirely reconstructed according to historic standards.The debut of the painstakingly restored park attr

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