Home sales in Riverside County jumped 4.1 percent in May, compared to the same month a year ago, but prices dipped by 28.6 percent, a real estate information service reported Monday.
According to DataQuick, bargain shoppers pushed Southern California home sales higher in May compared to April, but it was still the slowest May in more [...]
From her kitchen window, Jackie Gower’s life looks picture perfect. Her two-storey house rests above the calm grey-blue expanse of Lake Waikere, among the rolling farmlands of Te Kauwhata. Outside, chickens scratch and fluff about beside a coop. In a nearby garden, winter vegetables sprout, including silverbeet, radishes and flowering spring onions. The kitchen [...]