California

Between two state measures and one regional, California starts with $40 billion of GO bonds on the November ballot, before any other local measures are tallied.

The pending end of the program comes as over half of U.S. states have already ceased accepting new applicants for federal aid aimed to help struggling households with mortgage payments.

Marina Wiant was named to head California treasurer committees that set the debt limit, determine how the private-activity capacity is deployed and play a critical role in financing the construction of affordable rental housing in the state.

The alleged scam targeted elderly Vietnamese-American homeowners in California and fooled banks into distributing illicit funds to the perpetrators.

The owner of Tri-Emerald Financial Group claimed unregistered securities it was offering would increase in value by more than tenfold before an eventual Nasdaq listing.

Adjustments to area median-income levels will make more residents eligible after the state opened up the Homeowner Assistance Fund to households with pandemic-related partial claims or loan deferrals earlier this year, the program said.

State Farm General Insurance Co. said it's no longer accepting new applications for property and casualty coverage in California last week, a year after Allstate Corp. also paused new policies, worsening what FAIR Plan, a state-mandated insurance pool, called a "looming insurance unavailability crisis." 

The case involved incidents occurring in early 2021, when an unauthorized individual obtained access to files containing personal identifiable information of consumers.

The laws will go on the books later next year as part of an effort to provide builders with new tools to deal with the California's lack of land for new residential construction.

The starter home is becoming a myth for many first-time home buyers in the Sacramento market.

Lawmakers approved the first $500 million for the program as a trailer bill to the fiscal 2023 budget. Bonds may be used to fill the gap.

California counties must now work to remove decades-old racist language in property records that once banned people of color from buying homes in neighborhoods across the state.

A chaparral-covered patch of land in southwest Riverside County could soon become a testing ground for a new housing concept.

With resources provided through the Homeowner Assistance Fund, the $1 billion plan will help cover homeowners’ past-due payments and comes after New York unveiled a similar assistance package earlier this month.

CalHFA’s executive director Tiena Johnson Hall discusses her agenda for encouraging affordable housing development in the inventory-strapped state.

Home sales to the top four iBuying companies more than doubled in Southern California this past spring, jumping 123% from the quarter before to an all-time high of 789 homes, a Zillow analysis shows.

Manny Alvarez, the head of California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, told staff that he plans to leave on June 18. Chief Deputy Commissioner Chris Shultz will be appointed to lead the agency on an interim basis.

The defendants face 133 felony counts that include allegedly stealing identities to commit mortgage fraud between 2014 and 2020, resulting in the theft of $15 million.

The busiest season for home buying took off with a bang last month, as fierce competition among buyers drove prices up and sales soared to one of the highest levels in years.

Led by El Dorado County, the Sacramento region became one of California's notable housing and growth hot spots in the final months of 2020, new data show.