North Bay Business Journal

  • People: Week of Jan. 30, 2012

    January 30th, 2012

    Click here for photo gallery Health Care The Northern California Center for Well-Being has hired Annette Zucconi as its new operations manager as part of its leadership team. Ms. Zucconi has dedicated over 20 years to non-profit community education work and brings a breadth of curriculum development, contract and program management experience to the Center [...]

  • Habitat for Humanity, banks, others collaborate on foreclosures

    January 16th, 2012

    While building homes for low-income families remains a part of Habitat for Humanity’s mission in Sonoma County, local volunteers say they’ve found a cost-effective alternative in the current economy – purchasing and renovating foreclosed houses.

  • Nicholas promoted to president of Redwood Trust

    January 12th, 2012

    MILL VALLEY — Brett Nicholas, a nearly 16-year employee of Redwood Trust Inc. (NYSE: RWT), has been appointed president of the real estate investment trust.

  • New Bradley at the helm of Bradley Real Estate

    January 5th, 2012

    SAN RAFAEL — Bradley Real Estate, one of the North Bay’s largest home brokerages, is under new leadership after founder and CEO Melissa Bradley announced her retirement Wednesday.

  • Rick Laws joins Pacific Union

    December 23rd, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Pacific Union International announced that Rick Laws, previously managing broker of Coldwell Banker’s Santa Rosa office, has joined the real estate brokerage.

  • Sonoma County moves closer to smokeless

    December 19th, 2011

    SONOMA COUNTY — The first provisions of Sonoma County’s smoke-free law went into effect in early December, a move viewed by proponents as both a critical step in making the county healthier as well as a relatively rare achievement for a county.

  • Large manufactured-home factory opens in Vallejo

    December 1st, 2011

    VALLEJO — Massachusetts-based Blu Homes today opened a 250,000-square-foot factory in Vallejo, where the company plans to eventually employ 500 and turning out that many of the company’s high-tech, high-green manufactured dwellings annually.

  • Luther Burbank Savings donates two-acre parcel for homeless housing

    November 21st, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Luther Burbank Savings, in collaboration with the Sonoma County Task Force for the Homelessness, has donated a house and two-acre parcel at 2621 Guerneville Road to Community Housing Sonoma County, which will use the property to develop affordable housing for the homeless.

  • Rohnert Park senior apartments sold for $35 million

    October 12th, 2011

    ROHNERT PARK — Oak View of Sonoma Hills, a 207-unit apartment complex for seniors, was part of a $100 million sale of nearly 600 units in three such properties to a New York-based investor.

  • North Bay could exceed a subdued housing forecast

    September 29th, 2011

    NORTH BAY — In the wake of the annual California Realtor Expo in San Jose, many of the North Bay Area’s real estate experts say that growth in the local housing market stands a good chance of outpacing forecasts for the state as a whole, although the levels of price and sales growth remain subdued.

  • People: Week of Sept. 26, 2011

    September 26th, 2011

    Brief news about professionals in the north San Francisco Bay area.

  • Bradley Real Estate expanding to Santa Rosa

    September 19th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Bradley Real Estate is expanding with the addition of a new office in Santa Rosa. “We’re optimistic about the future,” said Robert Bradley, president of the company. “Our business has grown substantially since 2006 and we have continued to add one new office a year during the recession.”

  • New California short-sale law can help homeowners

    September 19th, 2011

    Short sales are increasing as a percentage of home sales, according to recent industry statistics. It’s not surprising since a successful short sale enables the distressed homeowner to sell her home for market value — even if it’s less than the loans against it — with lender consent, and move forward without a foreclosure on her record. Better yet, Fannie Mae has stated that you will be able to obtain a home loan five years earlier if your exit strategy is a short sale instead of a foreclosure.

  • Business news: Week of Sept. 19, 2011

    September 19th, 2011

    Brief news about companies and organizations in the north San Francisco Bay Area

  • People: Week of Sept. 19, 2011

    September 19th, 2011

    News about people on the move in among north San Francisco Bay Area businesses and organizations

  • Q&A: Chris Thornberg, Beacon Economics: Improvement seen in 2011

    August 29th, 2011

    Chris Thornberg is founding principal of Beacon Economics, LLC, which has offices in Los Angeles and San Rafael. He is a nationally sought-after forecaster of financial conditions. His firm’s recent prognostications — accelerating GDP growth in the second half of 2011, no double-dip economic or housing industry recessions — have cut against the grain of those of many firms and agencies. He will be the keynote speaker at the Business Journal’s Impact Napa conference on Sept. 1. The publication asked him to weigh in on some of the larger forces affecting Napa County’s key economic drivers: wine, tourism, housing and construction.

  • HybridCore Homes signs manufacturing, marketing deal with Champion Home Builders

    August 8th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — HybridCore Homes, a designer of modular rooms to make construction faster and more efficient, has signed an agreement with a major factory home builder to make the units throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

  • Economist calls Sonoma County outlook ‘fairly optimistic’

    June 29th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — The pace of Sonoma County’s economic improvement will increase in the second half of this year and into 2012 with improvement in the state and national economy, according to an economist at a Sonoma County Economic Development Board conference this morning.

  • People: Week of June 27, 2011

    June 27th, 2011

    Brief news from companies in the north San Francisco Bay Are

  • ‘Tiny house’ builder Tumbleweed locates in Sebastopol

    June 20th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL – Tumbleweed Tiny House Company recently leased a small warehouse at 400 Morris St. in Sebastopol.

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