Orange County housing hot spots are near the beach. That’s what we found our studying how housing trends hit various corners of Orange County.” For the 22 business days ending April 9 — freshest numbers from DataQuick — our region-by-region analysis of local real estate trends finds Orange County homebuying slicing up by geography this [...]
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Balboa Island – dredging and property
A look back to Balboa Island in 1928, from Jeff Delaney’s book Newport Beach: In 1906, W. S. Collins commenced a dredging operation, partially completed by 1910, at which time a sucesion of subdivision map filings began. Prior to the dredging, the island was largely overflowed swamp land and mostly underwater at high tide. It [...]
Balboa Peninsula before homes
Before there were many homes on Balboa Peninsula, this is what it looked like in 1922: In 1923, a syndicate of Pasadena men purchased all of the land on the easterly extreme of the peninsula from Edna Ferguson, the widow of Joe Ferguson. The property was then subdivided, a map filed in May 1923, and [...]
