Real Estate



MARK CROSSE / THE FRESNO BEE
From left: Cara Pierce, Anita Ramirez, CEO Martha Lucey, Xua Yang and Maria Rodriguez, counselors at ByDesign Financial Solutions, all are available to help beleaguered homeowners. The company received an $85,000 grant to expand its counseling programs.
     Valley homeowners get help
Program offers counseling, credit help, resources.
Hundreds of people call the No Homeowner Left Behind hotline each month and speak to one of 20 counselors trained to help families facing foreclosure.

The goal is to save a family's house or, barring that, preserve what equity is available or steer households to other resources. The program, a grass-roots effort based in Fresno -- and an increasing number of others like it -- could possibly help thousands more families in the central San Joaquin Valley facing similar situations, experts say.

By Sanford Nax / The Fresno Bee
06:17:52 PM Saturday, May 10, 2008

Wheatville's new ownersThe Santos family recently purchased a little bit of history when members bought 667 acres in a rural part of western Fresno County.
By Sanford Nax / The Fresno Bee
08:48:23 PM Saturday, May 3, 2008

House of strawTwo years ago, when Katie Flinn and Jason Gardner of Fresno started planning their dream home in the Fresno County foothills, they didn't think they'd end up building a house out of straw.
By Jeff St. John / The Fresno Bee
09:46:30 PM Saturday, Apr 26, 2008

Farmland is holding its valueReal estate isn't considered the best investment these days, but that doesn't apply to agricultural land, which is generating such good returns that farmers are holding on to it -- and expanding when they can.
By Sanford Nax / The Fresno Bee
04:35:12 PM Saturday, Apr 19, 2008



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