Foreclosure activity increased in August, as both notices of default and trustee deeds filed with the San Diego County Assessor increased since last month.

Price-reduced homes on the market increased by 3.26 percent in August compared to July, according to a report released Friday.

Foreclosure activity increased in August, as both notices of default and trustee deeds filed with the San Diego County Assessor rose since July.

The vacant, 73,756-square-foot office/research and development/flex building in Carmel Mountain Ranch at 15330 Avenue of Science, San Diego 92128, has been sold in a short sale for $6.8 million, or $92 per square foot.

Brad Tecca and Brett Ward, LEED AP, of Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial, represented the Deal of the Week lessor. Jeremy Dee, of Corporate Realty Associates, represented the lessee.

(AP) -- Bell, Calif., residents have been overcharged hundreds of thousands of dollars in sewer fees.

H&R Block Inc., the tax preparer whose stock slid 18 percent last month, told investors to ignore speculation that it faces a surge in costs tied to its defunct mortgage business. The shares rose as much as 9 percent, the most in more than a year.

Two environmental groups are suing to block the redevelopment of San Francisco's abandoned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, saying a key part of the plan could permanently damage shoreline and wildlife.

The three model homes in the Carriage Run neighborhood of the Carmel Country Highlands community in Carmel Valley, San Diego 92130, have been sold for $1.82 million.

The Park to Bay Corridor along Park Boulevard between San Diego City College and the harbor continues to be transformed.

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the debt secured by the 941-unit, $300 million Pacific Beacon military housing development overlooking the 32nd Street Naval Station and placed it on a negative ratings watch.

The sale of the Robert F. Driver Building reported on this page Thursday, Sept. 2, was facilitated by Jeff Cole, Ed Hernandez, Steve Rowland, Michael Roberts, and Matthew Carlson, of Cushman & Wakefield, as well as Bradford Perry of Perry Commercial Real Estate.

Genesis Plaza, a 57,685-square-foot office building in Kearny Mesa at 4995 Murphy Canyon Road in San Diego 92123, has been sold for $10 million to NetREIT Inc., 1282 Pacific Oaks Place, Escondido 92029.

The 4th Annual Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Community Foundation Golf Tournament held on June 21 raised over $68,000.

The 4,745-square-foot industrial building at 7063 Carroll Road, San Diego 92121, has been sold for $720,000.

One of the unintended consequences of the recession is that great minds have time to ponder deeper thoughts. Innovative minds seem to be off in many directions these days planning strategies to help us get out of our plight. How to do more with less; reprioritizing our society's values; exploring a renewable energy revolution; how to grow our own food; billionaires pledging their fortunes away; cooperating during environmental disasters; developing ideas for new government structures; pedestrian-oriented traveling; and the future of art and culture.

Exotic mortgages designed to get people into homes they otherwise couldn’t afford have been the objects of scorn following their role in the subprime mortgage crisis.

A Sports Arena hotel has been sold for a reported $12.5 million, and the buyers are also reportedly making a play to purchase the 258-room W Hotel, as well.

(AP) -- A Stockton-based Caltrans engineer has pleaded guilty in federal court in Sacramento to charges of accepting bribes from a company that wanted to win state contracts.

The nine-story, 80,420-square-foot Robert F. Driver building at 1620 Fifth Ave. in downtown San Diego 92101, has been sold for $10 million.