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Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie has purchased the Cecil B. DeMille estate, a Los Feliz mansion once owned by the early filmmaker, for $24.5 million.

Comerica Bank will invest up to $5 million in Detroit Home Mortgage, which provides second mortgages to buyers so they can get past the city's appraisal gap problem.

Louisiana landlords with rental houses walloped by 2005's Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were eventually promised state help to rebuild: If they could get loans to rehab their properties, the state government would later reimburse them.

Odd though it may seem, Los Angeles is too lucky for its own good.

The number of homes sold in Northeast Florida rose last month, and so did the price they sold for.

An Ames family will finally be able to call themselves homeowners, thanks to Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa and a $50,000 grant from the Iowa Finance Authority Board of Directors.

The Erie County, N.Y., Legislature unanimously adopted a resolution asking for a state law that would enable local leaders to shorten the foreclosure timetable for bank-owned vacant homes.

The Bay Area's super-costly housing market has made it hard — sometimes impossible — for schoolteachers to put down roots and buy homes near their jobs.

Casey Crawford, head of the rapidly growing Movement Mortgage, recently recapitalized First State Bank in Danville, Va., with his own money.

Wintrust Mortgage has committed to funding $40 million in below-market fixed interest-rate loans in the Chicago area through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity.

As housing prices continue their climb toward pre-recession levels, enabling homeowners to regain equity, mortgage foreclosures and delinquency rates in the Bradenton-Sarasota, Fla., region remain on the decline.

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10% this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions.

Houston will need more than 214,000 new apartment rental units by 2030 to meet demand from a population that is drifting from homeownership, according to a new study by the National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association.

Robert and Dolores Sexton never saw it coming: a classic real estate ruse the Bay Area retirees say has cost them the home they bought almost 42 years ago.

Home sales and prices in the Baltimore area continued to climb in May, as buyers vied for properties in a market with historically low inventory.

Fewer Colorado Springs homeowners are sinking on their mortgages, a national report released by housing data firm CoreLogic shows.

Following the lead of other California cities, Mayor Eric Garcetti two years ago proposed charging a fee on construction and using those funds to build affordable housing in Los Angeles.

Median prices for single-family houses and condominiums on Maui increased by double-digit percentages in May as low inventory prompted buyers to snap up properties at a rapid pace.

St. Louis County, Minn., made a cool $350,500 selling 25 parcels that had been given up by their previous owners for non-payment of property taxes.

The parent of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services said it had acquired 1st Priority Mortgage Inc. and Nothnagle Home Securities, completing the last stage of its purchases of RealtyUSA and Nothnagle Realtors.