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SoCal Home Sales Continue to Plunge

2:26 pm in Cost of Living, Current Events, Living in California Southbay, Moving to California, Real Estate by Jane in Redondo

From Reuters: “Sales of houses and condominiums in the most populous Southern California counties fell 29.9 percent from the previous month and 48.5 percent from a year earlier, DataQuick Information Systems said on Tuesday.

The report covers the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura and showed a total of 12,455 new and existing homes and condos sold in September, the lowest since the company began recording the data in 1988.”

Southern California Fires and Bureaucracy

7:30 am in Current Events, Politics by Jane in Redondo

As heard on the John & Ken show yesterday and covered in this news story, fires were raging while helicopters were grounded, delaying the help that Southern Californians needed to save their homes:

As Calif. Fires Burned, Copters Grounded (where were the “spotters”?)

Today’s News from John & Ken regarding reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of arson suspect(s) in the Southern CA fires.