Jonathan Lansner has been the Orange County Register's business columnist since 1997 and has been part of the newspaper's coverage of the local business scene since 1986. He is a past national president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and a 1979 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Only two other counties in the nation had more neighborhoods on the priciest housing list – and both were from California: Los Angeles with 15 ZIPs and Santa Clara with...