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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is donating $250,000 to a November ballot measure that would raise $4 billion in bonds to help solve California’s housing crisis.

Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto, California-based nonprofit, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is giving the money to Affordable Housing Now, a political action committee formed by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Housing California, the California Housing Consortium and the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California.

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Toyota employees relocating to work at the auto giant’s new North American headquarters in Plano face the highest price in the region to live near their corporate campus, with median sale prices in the area hitting $289,000, according to a study released Tuesday by buying platform Open Listings.

The study also pegs the average employee salary at Toyota’s headquarters in Plano at $110,244, meaning employees pay an average of 18 percent of their paycheck to live within 20 minutes of work.

Meanwhile,…

Local developers Dave Murfin and Brent Hurst plan to buy and fix up a long-rundown housing complex near Kellogg and Oliver in Wichita.

It’s part of a growth strategy for Kailua-Kona-based company, which wants to grow revenue while keeping its boutique vibe.

Every year, we strive for our San Francisco Structures publication to cover as much of the city’s real estate trends and economic development opportunities as possible.

We also chart every large development project in San Francisco’s pipeline that’s under construction, approved or proposed.

The maps below features all large residential projects in the pipeline. Major developers such as Related California, Tishman Speyer, Crescent Heights and Shorenstein Properties have thousands of apartments…

A house in Hudson, Wis., with views of the St. Croix River is on the market for $1.2 million.

The home, at 1856 River Ridge Road in Hudson, Wis., has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. It comes with a gourmet kitchen with high-end appliances, a wood-burning fireplace, a hot tub, a deck and a patio. It also has a pool with a slide.

The house features a finished basement, a three-car garage, an invisible fence, central air conditioning and a private sewer.

The property spans a…

A Racine County manufacturer that designs and produces branded clothes and hats would move almost 100 jobs to a new facility planned for Mukwonago.

A midtown Phoenix office building is being used by a federal defense contractor to house immigrant children, according to the California-based Center for Investigative Reporting.

The building, leased to Virigina-based MVM in March, has drawn attention from neighbors with increased security and regular unloading of white vans containing children, according to the report.

The lease for the building does not allow it to be operated as a shelter. MVM officials told CIR the facility is just being used…

The parcel was previously zoned for a planned community district, but no master developer signed on to install the necessary infrastructure.

The Blackstone Group LP, a multinational private equity firm, has bought the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa on San Antonio's North Side for just under $650 million, according to Real Estate Alert.

The price for the 1,002-room hotel, golf course and resort — on a 644-acre site — comes out to nearly $650,000 per room, making it easily the largest single real estate purchase in San Antonio this year.

The property, which opened in 2010, was quoted as being a $600 million project…