Last month’s hottest real estate stories...most read

Here’s what our counter of readers’ page views at ocregister.com told us were the 12 posts from this blog that you folks visited the most in March!

So, the envelope, please! Let me present — drum roll, please — Lansner on Real Estate’s most-popular “Blue Ribbon” postings, so to speak (Click on the headlines to read the stories!0 …

1. How a million-dollar home sold in Costa Mesa
2. ‘Housewife’ gets loan modification
3. Family charged in $16 million real estate fraud
4. 317,000 properties to get tax-cut review
5. OC home prices fall 2nd straight month
6. Hear why housing will slump again
7. OC hottest US housing market?
8. Builder raises new OC home prices
9. Why this housing bubble was different
10. Unfinished OC condos sell for $27 million
11. Bren owns world’s 45th largest fortune
12. $95 million home envisioned for Newport

http://lansner.freedomblogging.com/

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Freeze frame: O.C.’s distressed home sales

Here’s the latest distressed housing snapshot for Orange County and how local cities have fared as of  Thursday. The bi-weekly analysis is done for you!

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Slice	All inventory	Distressed	Share
By price:
O.C. $0-$250k	1,195	649	54.3%
O.C. $250-$500k	2,507	1,303	52.0%
O.C. $500k-$750k	1,666	463	27.8%
O.C. $750k-$1m	910	168	18.5%
O.C. $1m-$1.5m	680	71	10.4%
O.C. $1.5m-$2m	393	24	6.1%
O.C. $2m-4m	551	27	4.9%
O.C. $4m+	305	5	1.6%
All of O.C.	8,135	2,706	33.3%
Attached	3,095	1,325	42.8%
Detached	5,027	1,369	27.2%
County high share:
Anaheim	370	248	67.0%
Rancho Santa Marg.	126	77	61.1%
Aliso Viejo	133	79	59.4%
Ladera Ranch	116	65	56.0%
La Habra	131	72	55.0%
Lake Forest	110	60	54.5%
Talega	71	38	53.5%
Foothill Ranch	45	24	53.3%
County low share:
Seal Beach	225	5	2.2%
Corona Del Mar	153	9	5.9%
Laguna Woods	338	27	8.0%
Laguna Beach	320	28	8.8%
Newport Beach	497	53	10.7%

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Latest on foreclosures:

• Homes on way to repo auctions in 12 cities
• Foreclosures seen ‘for many years to come'

http://mortgage.freedomblogging.com/

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