Pacific region

California is trying to promote green technology, but one of San Francisco's biggest landlords has told a tenant he cannot use a plug to charge his new electric car. Neither can the other tenants. Richard...

The new rule will affect complexes located in unincorporated areas of Marin County. Marin itself was recently named the healthiest county in California by a report from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute...

Largely in response to the city's growing technology sector, 22,000 residential units are in various stages of approval and construction. In a few years, residents could be signing leases for new addresses in South...

The citizens of Seattle have just such an opportunity by encouraging development of dynamic pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods in the areas surrounding Sound Transit's light-rail stations. Nationally, these "new" neighborhoods are called transit-oriented developments (TODs). Locally,...

Unable to afford Orange County's skyhigh rents, she opted for Portland, Ore. "A big motivator was that I lived with roommate after roommate after roommate," said McCluer, 30. "Friends said you could probably live...

At a "nice" $3,500-per-month loft in the Mission, "80 people showed up for the open house," said Ms. Lamas, 23, who recently began working at a tech company in SoMa. "And the landlord said...

First, an energy and water consumption assessment was commisioned. Simcoe Consulting was designated. The County of San Diego had just raised the drought warning to a level two for the City of San Diego, and...

Land is sacred in Hawaii. And, going vertical makes perfect sense on an island where real estate is in finite supply. The success of the pre-sales at Pacifica Honolulu, where a ground blessing ceremony...

Until now, affordable, green and rental housing haven't always gone hand in hand. With the opening of the first and only affordable apartments in the East Rancho Dominguez redevelopment area, eco-friendly housing no longer...

And it was conscientious adherence to those goals that won OliverMcMillan's Hazard Center Revitalization plan—the prototype of that City of Villages concept—the almost unheard-of unanimous approval of both San Diego's planning commission in March...

At the height of the market a few years ago, reports of a firm purchasing two properties in a year's time would have registered as a mere blip on the industry radar screen. Today,...

On a coast filled with dreamy, seaside cities, Oakland is more like a Midwestern industrial town dropped far from home. Mayor Brown points out, “most of the people who work downtown, live elsewhere. They...