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VALLEY ECONOWATCH

GENERAL INDICATORS

                                                         % [+ or -] From
                                       Latest  Previous         Previous
                                       Period    Period           Period

Air cargo (November) (1)
 Inbound (lbs. in millions)               2.7       2.8            -0.3%
 Outbound (lbs. in millions)              4.4       5.0            -0.1%
Bankruptcies (December)
 Chapter 7                                815       760            +0.1%
 Chapter 11                                 4         5            -0.2%
 Chapter 13                               138       150           -0.08%

Electricity (December)
 Residential accounts                 453,296   453,379             0.0%
 Commercial accounts                   43,237    43,372            -0.1%
 Industrial accounts                    6,690     6,755            -0.1%
Tourism (November)
 Hotel occupancy rate                   67.3%     69.1%              N/A
 Room rate                             $99.04   $103.19            -4.0%
 Airline Passengers (October) (1)     396,031   377,808            +4.8%


                                         Year  % [+ or -] From
                                          Ago     Year Ago

Air cargo (November) (1)
 Inbound (lbs. in millions)               2.0       +0.4%
 Outbound (lbs. in millions)              3.3       +0.3%
Bankruptcies (December)
 Chapter 7                                826      -0.01%
 Chapter 11                                 8       -0.5%
 Chapter 13                               163      -0.07%

Electricity (December)
 Residential accounts                 451,122       +0.5%
 Commercial accounts                   43,215        0.0%
 Industrial accounts                    6,793       -0.1%
Tourism (November)
 Hotel occupancy rate                  +65.7%         N/A
 Room rate                             $97.23       +1.9%
 Airline Passengers (October) (1)     347,122      +14.1%

REAL ESTATE

                                                         % [+ or -] From
                                       Latest  Previous         Previous
                                       Period    Period           Period

Home mortgages and sales (December)
 Price, repeat sales index (2)          133.7     131.6            +1.5%
 Lending (millions)                    $550.2    $520.8            +3.8%
 No. of home sales                      2,623     2,437            +7.6%
 Average home sale price             $344,417  $352,972            -2.4%
Single-family resales (December)
 Closed escrows                         1,107     1,085           +0.02%
 New listings                             911     1,250            -0.3%
 Active listings                        2,340     2,954            -0.2%
Condominium resales (December)
 Closed escrows                           395       385           +0.02%
 New listings                             302       384           -0.02%
 Active listings                          498       652           -0.23%
Vacant apartments (December)            6,179     5,659            +0.1%
Apartment vacancy rate (December)        2.9%      2.7%              N/A

Office vacancy rates (4th qtr.)
 East Valley                            13.7%     14.3%              N/A
 Central Valley                         11.9%     11.4%              N/A
 West Valley                            17.2%     17.1%              N/A
 Conejo Valley                          18.7%     18.1%              N/A
 Santa Clarita Valley                   13.8%     15.8%              N/A
 Valley overall                         15.3%     15.1%              N/A
Industrial vacancy rates (4th qtr.)
 East Valley                             2.1%      4.9%              N/A
 Central Valley                          2.5%      2.8%              N/A
 West Valley                             2.1%      2.2%              N/A
 Conejo Valley                          12.3%     12.2%              N/A
 Valley overall                          6.7%      7.0%              N/A


                                         Year  % [+ or -] From
                                          Ago     Year Ago

Home mortgages and sales (December)
 Price, repeat sales index (2)          116.3      +15.0%
 Lending (millions)                    $415.5      +32.4%
 No. of home sales                      2,145      +22.3%
 Average home sale price             $290,593      +18.5%
Single-family resales (December)
 Closed escrows                           983       +0.1%
 New listings                             746       +0.2%
 Active listings                        2,854       -0.2%
Condominium resales (December)
 Closed escrows                           349       +0.1%
 New listings                             246       -0.2%
 Active listings                          673       -0.3%
Vacant apartments (December)            6,108      +0.01%
Apartment vacancy rate (December)        2.9%        0.0%

Office vacancy rates (4th qtr.)
 East Valley                            16.3%         N/A
 Central Valley                         12.4%         N/A
 West Valley                            17.0%         N/A
 Conejo Valley                          16.6%         N/A
 Santa Clarita Valley                   27.5%         N/A
 Valley overall                         15.5%         N/A
Industrial vacancy rates (4th qtr.)
 East Valley                             6.6%         N/A
 Central Valley                          6.5%         N/A
 West Valley                             2.1%         N/A
 Conejo Valley                          11.1%         N/A
 Valley overall                          7.0%         N/A

L.A. COUNTY ECONOWATCH

GENERAL INDICATORS

                                                           % + from
                                        Latest   Previous  Previous
                                         month      month     month

Employment (000's) (Oct.) (1)            4,603      4,551     +1.1%
Unemployment (000's) (Oct.)                297        317      -6.3
Help-wanted ads index (Sept)                21         20      +5.0
Jobless-to-job ad ratio (Sept.) (2)         46         47      -1.9
Film permits (Aug.) (3)                  2,505      2,066      21.1
Bankruptcies
Chapter 7 (Dec.)                         3,330      3,179      +4.7
Chapter 11 (Dec.)                           16         21     -23
Exports (mils.) (Oct.) (4)            $4,887.4   $5,169.7      -5.5
Imports (mils.) (Oct.) (4)           $12,758.1  $13,556.6      -5.9


                                          Year   % + from
                                           ago   year ago

Employment (000's) (Oct.) (1)            4,604      -0.2%
Unemployment (000's) (Oct.)                302      -1.7
Help-wanted ads index (Sept)                24     -12.5
Jobless-to-job ad ratio (Sept.) (2)         67     -31.4
Film permits (Aug.) (3)                  1,890      32.5
Bankruptcies
Chapter 7 (Dec.)                         3,313      +0.5
Chapter 11 (Dec.)                           31     -48
Exports (mils.) (Oct.) (4)            $5,688.8     -14.1
Imports (mils.) (Oct.) (4)           $13,778.7      -7.5


FOOTNOTES

(1.) For Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport.

(2.) The index, generated by First American First American may refer to:
  • First American (comics), A superhero from America's Best Comics
  • First American, a division of the now-defunction Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
 Real Estate Solutions, is based on a statistical model that tracks the resale resale n. selling again, particularly at retail. In many states a "resale license" or "resale number" is required so that the state can monitor the collection of sales tax on retail sales.


RESALE.
 value of a preselected group of homes and is considered by the industry to be a more accurate measure than either the average or median sales price. It eliminates trend shifts which occur from differing types of houses sold from one period to another. The index base value is 100 which reflects its level in January January: see month.  of 1990.

(3.) Thousands of jobless job·less  
adj.
1. Having no job.

2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs.

n. (used with a pl. verb)
Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the.
 to index point of lob (1) See BLOB.

(2) (Line Of Business) Refers to people, job titles and product lines, all of which pertain to a specific product or service area of the business.
 ads.

(4.) Film production days

(5.) Through Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  Customs District.

N/A - Not applicable.

BOLDFACE See boldface font.  INDICATES UPDATED FIGURES

Sources: Central District of Calif., (bankruptcies); Economic Development Corporation, Los Angeles (business failures, exports, imports); Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority (Burbank Burbank, city (1990 pop. 93,643), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1911. Tourism and the entertainment industry are central to its economy; several motion-picture studios and television headquarters are here. Burbank's aerospace industry collapsed with the end of the Cold War.  passenger traffic and air cargo air cargo: see aviation. ); Axicom/DataQuick Information Systems Inc., La Jolla La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and  (construction lending, property lending, refinance Refinance

1. When a business or person revises their payment schedule for repaying debt.

2. Replacing an older loan with a new loan offering better terms.

Notes:
When a business refinances they typically extend the maturity date.
 lending, home sales, home prices); First American Real Estate Solutions (foreclosures); Grubb & Ellis ELLIS - EuLisp LInda System. An object-oriented Linda system written for EuLisp. "Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda", P. Broadbery <pab@maths.bath.ac.uk> et al, in Linda-Like Systems and Their Implementation, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh TR 91-13, 1991.  (office and industrial vacancy VACANCY. A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.
     2. By the constitution of the United States, the president has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate.
 rates); PKF PKF Peace Keeping Force
PKF Pannell Kerr Foster (accounting firm)
PKF Park Falls, Wisconsin (Airport Code) 
 Consulting (hotel occupancy Noun 1. hotel occupancy - occupancy rate for hotels
occupancy rate - the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time
, room rate), city of Los Angeles
For the city, see Los Angeles, California.
The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train jointly operated by the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad.
 Housing Department (apartment vacancies), Southland south·land or South·land  
n.
A region in the south of a country or an area.



southland·er n.

Noun 1.
 Regional Association of Realtors (home resales).
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