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Home Run Financing Receives Approval in California to Provide Unsecured Home Improvement Loan Product, Called Home Run Loans

September 16, 2021 admin

LOS GATOS, Calif., Sept. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Home Run Financing (previously PACE Funding Group, LLC) announced today that it has received approval from the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) to provide their new, unsecured home loan product, called Home Run Loans, to homeowners in California.

The company has been providing Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) funding for renewable energy and energy- and water-efficiency home improvements since 2014, and later for earthquake hardening and wildfire preparation. Through Home Run Loans, homeowners can now finance the same types of projects allowable under PACE, in addition to

Home Improvement

What $1.25 Million Buys you in North Carolina, Connecticut and California

August 25, 2021 admin

Tryon, N.C. | $1.225 Million

A 1947 house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, including a one-bedroom, one-bathroom attached guest suite, on an 18.12-acre lot with a swimming pool

This house, known as Rosebay, is in a historic resort community of about 1,600 in southwest North Carolina. It was expanded, starting in 2015, with the addition of a guest suite and a detached two-car garage with a workshop. Other recent improvements include a paved driveway that replaces gravel, and a new roof.

The property, which is less than a mile from the town’s commercial area, is in

Real Estate

What $3.5 Million Buys You in California

August 3, 2021 admin

Ventura | $3.49 Million

A modern farmhouse built in 2005, with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 12.87-acre lot

Six of this property’s nearly 13 acres are planted with avocado trees, and there is a citrus grove, as well. The lot, nestled in the hills overlooking the coastline, is private, with no neighboring homes in sight. But it is well located for visiting surrounding areas: Rincon Point, a beach on the border of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, with some of the country’s best surfing, is 20 minutes away; about 40 minutes in the opposite direction

Real Estate

Home design ideas: A Massachusetts bedroom designed to feel like coastal California

July 24, 2021 admin

Before Virginia DesRoches began designing the scheme for this primary bedroom in a Westport summer house, she wanted to alter what her clients saw out the window. A guest cottage “was blocking the view of the water, so we flattened its roof,” says the principal designer of Ironwood Studio, based in Fairhaven. The charming harbor vista, she explains, was imperative to creating a coastal vibe in the otherwise outdated, cookie-cutter house. Now, the bed faces a wall of glass that opens onto a deck, and the whole space feels airy. Plus, the entire look was pulled together using retail finds.

Home Design