California

Orange County, Calif., may be on the verge of seeing a gain in home sales for the first time in more than a year, new CoreLogic figures show.

Even in the midst of a climate crisis, the Bay Area's skyrocketing housing costs are pushing families into far-flung suburbs like Tracy.

Late last year, Santa Rosa residents Julian and Lisa Corwin wrote down on a whiteboard the money they had available to rebuild their home on Vintage Circle destroyed in the October 2017 Tubbs fire.

It would cost nearly $30 billion to rebuild the tens of thousands of homes that are most vulnerable to wildfires in the Sacramento metropolitan area, a projection that ranks California's capital region fourth highest in the nation for wildfire risk, according to CoreLogic.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a brief Thursday in support of Oakland's lawsuit against Wells Fargo, alleging that the bank illegally discriminated against minority borrowers.

Most homes located in Opportunity Zones sell for below the national median price.

Bay Area home sales slowed slightly in July, with last year's record prices giving way to buyer caution amidst a volatile stock market and trade wars.

Southern California builders sold 13% more homes in July than a year ago as prices fell 8%.

In a region of more than 7 million people, just 266 new homes, townhomes and condos were sold in January.

In a reprieve for Southern California's sluggish housing market, home sales rose in July from a year earlier. It was the first sales increase in 12 months.

Prospective buyers of the boarded-up East Hills Mall recently reached out to Bakersfield city officials with a new vision for demolishing and redeveloping the property into a village-like mixed-use center.

Soaring home prices are pushing homebuyers out of walkable neighborhoods into those that are more car-dependent, Redfin said.

A brazen Beverly Hills Realtor and his accomplice allegedly used open houses to steal from superstar singers Usher and Adam Lambert, prosecutors said.

Cities and counties in Southern California will have to plan for the construction of 1.3 million new homes in the next decade, a figure more than three times what local governments had proposed over the same period, according to a letter released by state housing officials.

Wealthy buyers are pulling back from some of the most expensive housing markets in the U.S., the latest sign that sky-high prices and fears of a recession are weighing on a key sector of the economy.

After two disastrous fire seasons, California officials have been besieged by homeowners in fire-prone areas complaining that their insurance premiums are skyrocketing or their plans are suddenly being dropped.

Despite a record streak of higher prices, some economists believe homes in certain Bay Area communities should be considered a bargain. And that's even with median price tags easily topping a million bucks.

Builders in Oakland are on course to create more new housing units than San Francisco this year, a notable role reversal for a city that has long produced far less residential development than its wealthier and more bustling neighbor across the bay.

For the first time in years, the San Diego County housing market is starting to cool.

Foreign buyers have cooled on the U.S. residential home market, dropping investments by more than one-third over the previous year and spending less in expensive California.