RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE : Bits and pieces:

* Hard on the heels of word that you’ll soon be able to buy a new car at Westminster Mall comes a report from HomeLife/Orange County Realty in Mission Viejo that it has opened a residential real estate information kiosk at the Mission Viejo Mall. The curious can stop by and get information about interest rates, property values “and other general real estate information in a relaxed, non-pressure atmosphere,” promises Frank DiLauro, the broker who owns the HomeLife franchise.

* Hall & Foreman Inc., a Tustin civil engineering and land-planning firm, won the 1991 Grand Award for Land Development Engineering from the California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors. The project that took the top prize at the group’s annual conference in Hawaii was H&F;’s design and engineering for Village of Heritage in Fontana, a 4,000-unit master-planned community in the middle of a flood plain. The company had to figure out how to make all of those homes compatible with a big flood-control system.