Meeting in San Jose, Calif., Resolves to Narrow Latino Homeownership Gap - 2004-03-13
More than 100 people in the real estate, mortgage and housing industries resolved at an a meeting Friday in San Jose to boost their efforts at educating Bay Area Latinos on the home-buying process.

Forty-four percent of California's Latino families own their homes, compared with 72 percent of white households, said Marcela Davison Aviles of the Latino Community Foundation, which co-sponsored the Latino Home Ownership Summit with First American Title.
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Housing Median Touches $406,000 for San Diego County - 2004-03-13
The median housing price in San Diego County broked another record last month at $406,000, as resale houses surged 23 percent from a year earlier.

He said the area is on tap to add 10,000 jobs this year, five times what it did last year. Factor in two other trends declining rather than the previously expected rise in mortgage interest rates and little in the way of increased housing construction and prices will keep going up, not settle back.
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