California

A new startup launched in the Bay Area says it can help buyers survive the region's cutthroat housing market by doing away with one of its biggest hurdles — a massive down payment.

The $10 million home that just went on the market in Bennett Valley was built with tech money and there's a good chance tech money will buy it.

Orange County house prices were just 1% above year-ago levels in April, while prices in Los Angeles County increased by a mere 2.3%, CoreLogic reported.

Just over two weeks ago, California lawmakers were planning to advance some of the most aggressive policies in the nation to combat rising housing costs.

The sluggish Southern California housing market showed signs of perking up in April, as prices ticked up one month after they fell for the first time since 2012.

In the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas, more than a fifth of young adults between the ages of 23 and 37 lived with their parents in 2017, according to a Zillow analysis of U.S. Census data.

San Diego County home sales were down for the 12th month in a row in April, said real estate tracker CoreLogic.

Freddie Mac uncovered a growing number of fraudulent school records and work histories in California, where Fannie Mae also has noted increasing instances of falsified employment information.

The number of renters is growing three times faster than homeowners as would-be homebuyers increasingly are priced out of the market.

Big and bold ideas often bomb out in the Legislature. And the biggest bill of this young session — a proposal to spur high-density housing — just blew up.

While regulation and nonbank competition are spooking some banks, others believe low funding costs and the right relationships can help them succeed.

Even as he blocked a major legislative push to spur more apartment construction around public transit and in wealthy suburbs, state Sen. Anthony Portantino acknowledged the need to address a shortage of housing in California.

Single-family home prices in Orange, Los Angeles and San Diego counties changed course, climbing up in April after falling year-over-year in March.

San Jose is slowly chipping away at Mayor Sam Liccardo's goal of building 10,000 affordable homes by 2022.

President Trump's tax reform package had an impact on nearly half of potential buyers searching for a new home, nine percentage points less than one year ago, according to a new Redfin survey.

If you live in a single-family home in California, it's likely everyone else in your neighborhood does, too.

Amid a state-wide housing shortage, developers say they feel increasingly burdened by unpredictable government service and impact fees that are almost three-times higher than the national average.

Ocwen Financial, Fidelity Information Services and Fidelity's corporate parent have agreed to settle a lawsuit over regulatory audit expenses Fidelity submitted to Ocwen for reimbursement.

People don't move like they used to.

Median home sale prices in the Bay Area dipped ever-so-slightly in March, marking the end of a record-breaking seven-year streak as even high salaries and low-interest rates failed to entice buyers into the country's most expensive market.