California

Want to buy an affordable house in the Sacramento area? Better get in line.

New and used auto lending broke records, while HELOCs and second mortgages reached levels not seen since 2012.

All hair stylist Erin Bond wants is a decent two-bedroom condo in Orange County, preferably in Huntington Beach.

Laura Whittall-Scherfee will direct a California agency that finances affordable housing.

Prices of single-family homes in Santa Cruz County, Calif., soared to new records in May as the number of sales shrank.

Demand for single-family homes in the Inland Empire has fueled the strongest building activity in nearly a decade, though experts say the recent spike is nowhere near the intensity and volume of the mid-2000s.

The median price of a single-family home in Marin County, Calif., hit a new high in May to $1.25 million.

In summer 2007, the Los Angeles County median home price hit an all-time high of $550,000. It soon plunged as the housing bubble burst and the national economy crashed.

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.

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