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If you’ve always wanted to move into a luxurious, spacious mansion in the trendy Cow Hollow neighborhood, here’s your chance.

A five-bedroom property, featuring five full and three half bathrooms, two viewing decks and a three-to-four car garage, just went on the market at 2536 Greenwich St. Built in 1993, it recently underwent a custom rebuild. The asking price is $9.9 million for the 6,016-square-feet property. The property was last sold in 2014 for $3.5 million.

The home is built around…

The Bay Area’s residential brokerage market has seen huge consolidation over the past few years. Flush with funding, brokerages like New York-based Compass have spent lavishly, buying up smaller competitors and investing in new technology. The buying sprees come as the home selling and buying landscape also shifts thanks to new startups like Reali and Opendoor, which are making inroads into the market.

To weather the changes, high-end Bay Area brokerage Alain Pinel Realtors picked up boutique…

Coldwell Banker D'Ann Harper's Global Luxury brand opened its newest office at The Dominion.

The new office, built specifically for the company, is at 22211 W. Interstate 10, Suite 2101, next to La Fogata restaurant. Led by vice president Miguel Herrera, the office will house about 25 of the company's 472 total agents.

Coldwell Banker D'Ann Harper's Global Luxury specializes in properties valued at more than $500,000. According to the company's website, the brand represents a number of luxury…

Baby Boomers in metro Denver and Colorado Springs are in a strong position to sell their homes and downsize to smaller quarters, thanks to high rates of ownership and robust rates of price appreciation.

But as is the case in much of the country, they are delaying that decision, according to a study from real estate firm Trulia.

“Downsizing depends on a lot more than just the ability (and equity) to do so. Seniors may not want to give up on the neighborhood and lifestyle they’ve grown accustomed to in their longtime home. So in expensive markets, tight inventory and sky-high prices make downsizing locally a hard task,” said Alexandra Lee, a housing data analyst with Trulia.

With builders not providing enough new entry-level single-family homes, some housing analysts have argued that the larger homes now owned by empty nesters could help ease the space crunch that young families face.

Trulia defines the ability to downsize as a senior household, over age 65, that owns a home and has ..

Galt is in the early stages of a big expansion for its industrial park.

The video game development school sent a request for proposals to other cities for a new campus and is looking to sublease more housing for students.

A Winter Garden-based commercial construction company was ordered to pay more than $100,000 in back wages following a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation.

KBL Buildings Inc. will pay $111,197 in back wages to 100 employees after the Department of Labor found the construction company violated overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to the department.

The U.S. Department of Labor said KBL Buildings paid employees overtime at straight-time…

The Pewaukee Plaza shopping center on Capitol Drive sold for $5.5 million after a nearly two-year turnaround that refilled its vacant space with a new Ashley HomeStore and other retailers.

The property at 1230 Capitol Drive was at about 9 percent occupancy in early 2017 when an investment fund created by MLG Capital in Brookfield acquired it, said principal Andrew Bruce. It sold on Sept. 5 at about 98 percent occupancy thanks to new leases MLG sealed with Ashley, a Domino’s pizza restaurant…

The owners of Khun Kay Thai Café want to develop a 20-story tower called Montrose Garden, replacing the longtime restaurant along Montrose Boulevard.

Houston-based CE Engineers & Development Consultants Inc. submitted a variance request for the project to the city of Houston’s Planning & Development Department last month, according to the agenda for the Planning Commission's Sept. 13 meeting. Plans for the tower include “everything from a retail shopping center, multifamily condominiums and…

We've listed the Sacramento area's largest homebuilders, ranked by 2017 homes sold in the area.

See the top five entries on The List with the slideshow that accompanies this article. Subscribers can view the full version of The List, which includes all 26 companies.

Homebuilders surveyed for this list build homes in Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer or Yolo counties. Information was provided by company representatives, company websites and The Gregory Group. In February 2018, Miami-based Lennar acquired…