As borrowing costs rise, land and commercial property owners are using financing terms to help close the gap between asking prices and what buyers can afford. A property sale can stall even when the buyer likes the asset and the seller is ready to move on. The...
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Bob Marra
Palm Springs Opens Its Modernist Doors for a Fall Weekend of Design
Palm Springs’ midcentury identity is usually encountered from the street: a butterfly roof above a hedge, a glass-walled living room glimpsed across a courtyard, a familiar building that still looks unexpectedly modern. For four days this month, visitors can...
What’s For Sale: Desert Island Golf Course Lists for $24 Million as Caliente Tropics Hotel Cuts Its Price
A Rancho Mirage golf course with hotel development approvals and a Palm Springs resort with a reduced asking price lead this month’s selection of six Greater Palm Springs properties, spanning hospitality, housing, storage and bank-leased real estate. Desert...
La Quinta State of the City: Impressive Next Wave of Growth Highlighted
At its State of the City presentation, La Quinta outlined 433 planned hotel rooms, 659 housing units and a SilverRock restart, with electrical capacity still a central condition for new development. La Quinta is preparing for hundreds of new hotel rooms and...
HARC Is Closing After 20 Years
The Palm Desert nonprofit plans to shut down at the end of 2026 after a series of lost and delayed funding streams. Now the future of its signature Community Health Survey, a 20-year record used to guide grants, programs and public policy across the region,...




