By Staff report | March 4, 2018 at 7:00 am

On the move

Mary Golding and Casey Lesher have joined the Newport Beach office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage as affiliate agents. Golding comes to the office with more than 20 years of real estate experience. Lesher comes to the office with more than eight years of...

Buying a new home is an exciting experience, full of promise and possibilities. Walking through the empty rooms, you can imagine the many possible courses your life could take in your new home and, of course, the hundreds of ways you could decorate, innovate and make the place your own. One of the most popular modern...

Good news for Orange and Los Angeles counties: Home ownership has reached a nine-year high. The not-so-good news: The area still ranks near the bottom among the 75 largest metropolitan areas in the United States when it comes to home ownership, according to U.S. Census data, as recently reported by the Orange County...

February 23, 2018

Home building vets Angela Meyer and Deborah Cramp join the crew.

Angela Meyer and Deborah Cramp Bring Deep Experience to Homebuilding Team 

IRVINE, Calif. – Brandywine Homes recently announced it has hired Angela Meyer as vice president of development and Deborah Cramp as offsite purchasing manager. Both Meyer and Cramp will be based in the firm’s Irvine, Calif. office. Read More

The refrigerator is by far one of the largest power consumers in your new home, often second only to the HVAC system with either the AC or furnace running at full blast. If you monitor the power from a smart outlet, you can watch the fridge cycle as it spins up to add more cold and spins down to sit at rest. You can...

Moving is a complicated process and every circumstance is different. One of the biggest challenges for anyone moving is time coordination, ensuring both that your current home is emptied before your final deadline and that the next place is available by the time the moving trucks arrive. However, it doesn't always...

Welcome back to the second half of this two-part article about saving up for your first home. There are many different techniques people use, but the most important thing to remember is to actually save money and make your plans. Last time we talked about managing your own expectations, setting your price range,...

The first time you take a really clear look at the housing market and calculate how much you'll need to pay upfront to buy even your first home, the cost can be daunting. Down payments, processing fees and the continually rising cost of homes can look like an impossibly steep hill to climb, one with goal posts that...

Many new home buyers shake their heads at the thought of professional cleaners deep cleaning hardwood floors. They don't realize just how much dirt and gunk can get into the nooks, crannies and crevices of wood floors or understand what dirt and gunk can do to the finish of a wood floor. Nor do they think of cleaning...

Infill Developer Plans to Close 200 Homes in 2018   IRVINE, Calif. – Brandywine Homes, a pioneer of infill development in Southern California, closed 111 homes, opened three new communities and broke ground on three new communities in Southern California in 2017. The homebuilder plans to increase its number of...