Droughts and water shortages limit new development
Before California can solve its housing crisis, it needs to solve its water shortage.
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Tag: drought
New law to add landscaping components to home inspection report
Home inspectors will now be encouraged to include the performance of landscaping systems in their report.
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Fewer California listings featuring drought-resistant features
Listings in California are ten times more likely to feature drought-resistant features than listings in other U.S. states.
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Air quality in the San Joaquin Valley
Local rules real estate agents and their clients need to be aware of to mitigate air pollution in San Joaquin Valley.
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Homeowners’ associations may issue fines for failure to use recycled water for landscape irrigation
Homeowner’s associations may only issue fines for lack of landscaping irrigation under certain circumstances.
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Clothesline use may not be barred or unreasonably restricted
Homeowners associations and landlords may not impose unreasonable restrictions on the use of clotheslines or drying racks.
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Drought-friendly landscaping permitted for individual common interest development unit owners
During government-declared drought emergencies, common interest developments (CIDs) may not prohibit an owner of an individual CID unit from installing artificial grass, synthetic turf or require them to remove water-efficient landscaping after the drought emergency has ended.
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Real estate disaster scenario Part I: Drought
California’s ongoing drought casts a shadow over future home sales. Should buyers be worried about the future of California real estate?
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No fines for brown lawns in state-declared drought emergency
No fines imposed on homeowners who have unwatered lawns in a state-declared drought emergency.
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Homebuyers, sellers and builders see Green in lawn-free houses
Homebuilders’ plans to roll out new housing are not hampered by this lawn restriction. In a preemptive move, builders have already adopted xeriscaping on new properties to eliminate or greatly reduce the need for irrigated water. As you might expect, homebuilders’ early adoption of xeriscaping came not in response to California’s drought, but to consumer demands for low cost maintenance of landscaping.
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