California

Sacramento home sales have hit a summer slump as potential buyers back away from escalating prices and rising mortgage interest rates.

The Marin, County, Calif., median home price jumped to $1.165 million in June, up 8.4% over the $1.075 million median price in June 2017.

With values on multifamily properties soaring, some building owners are using aggressive tactics to push out existing tenants to make room for higher-earning ones. That’s raising questions about whether their lenders are abetting this behavior.

Bay Area home buying slowed in June, as the busy summer home shopping season was chilled by scarce inventory and yet another month of near record-setting prices.

The Southern California median home price reached a new all-time high in June, jumping 7.3% from a year earlier.

It's no secret the San Francisco Bay Area can be a tough place to raise kids, and now a new report sheds light on those families sticking out.

Hanging over the Sonoma County, Calif., housing market is the damage done by the most destructive wildfires in state history. The fires of October claimed 24 lives and burned nearly 5,300 homes in the county.

Of the 5,500 housing-unit building permits issued by the city between 2015 and 2017, only 98 were for apartments or houses that people with salaries in the minimum wage range or a little higher could afford.

The number of nonbank lenders and servicers that did not comply with the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act Annual Report requirements grew this year, prompting a reprimand and warning of penalties from the commissioner of the state's Department of Business Oversight.

The measure, which has been compared to the EU’s new consumer privacy rules, grants Californians new rights over how companies collect and use their personal data.

The Southern California median home price surged 8.2% in May from a year earlier, hitting a new all-time high of $530,000, according to a report from CoreLogic.

One-time Modesto City Council candidate Robert Farrace, an attorney and real estate broker, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for defrauding real estate lenders.

Home prices rose to new highs in Sonoma County, Calif., in May, when the median hit a record $692,250, but there are indications the unrelenting price increases may be starting to test buyers' limits.

Los Angeles and Inland Empire house prices increased by more than 8% for the second month in a row in April, the CoreLogic Home Price Index showed.

As house values continued growing, homeowners with mortgages saw their equity increase 13.3% year-over-year in the first quarter, a gain of over $1.01 trillion, according to CoreLogic.

The median price for a single-family home in Santa Cruz County, Calif., remains breathtakingly high: $905,000 in April, according to Gary Gangnes of Real Options Realty.

Two Orange County, Calif., men were to federal prison for their part in a mortgage scheme that led to the fraudulent purchase of more then 100 condominium units and $10 million in losses.

June 04--DeLeon Realty used to shuttle Chinese investors on home tours around Silicon Valley in a 14-seat Mercedes van.

Despite the Bay Area's natural beauty and booming job market, nearly half of its residents now want to get out, citing a creeping disillusionment with the high cost of housing.

Home prices rose again in April for most of the Sacramento region's neighborhoods.