real estate

Despite being outspent 8-1, a coalition of progressive groups in Santa Ana helped beat back a recall of a city council member who was opposed by real estate interests and the city’s police union.

Miller also leads her department’s real estate group, whose responsibilities include evaluating surplus and underutilized properties — at the request of the City Council — that have potential for redevelopment.

All of those measures were defeated, but forced the real estate industry to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in opposition.

Mori said he interviewed the escrow agent, real estate agent and seller of the home, who called the circumstances of the purchase “suspicious.”

He and his family members have also deepened business ties with the Gulf, sometimes through real estate deals.