California

Just over 1,000 California Association of Realtors members may have been affected by a breach of the online store they use to buy everything from blank home sales contracts and disclosure forms to books, software, magnets, lapel pins and coffee mugs.

Oh, the pain, the pain — and the cost, the cost — of renting a Bay Area apartment.

Southern California house hunters aren't the only ones in the nation being forced to act quickly. Homeowners' reluctance to sell isn't just a local challenge.

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.

The Bay Area's super-costly housing market has made it hard — sometimes impossible — for schoolteachers to put down roots and buy homes near their jobs.

Robert and Dolores Sexton never saw it coming: a classic real estate ruse the Bay Area retirees say has cost them the home they bought almost 42 years ago.

Following the lead of other California cities, Mayor Eric Garcetti two years ago proposed charging a fee on construction and using those funds to build affordable housing in Los Angeles.

A week after officials disclosed a 57% rise in Los Angeles' veteran homelessness, advocates say the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is delaying housing development on its West Los Angeles campus.

Jenni Leocadio vowed not to go couch surfing at her sister's again after getting evicted from her two-story Santa Ana, Calif., apartment in April.

Three Northern California men, including one of Oakland's largest landlords, were convicted of creating a massive bid-rigging scheme to scoop up hundreds of foreclosed properties at suppressed prices.

Auditors performing a review of Ocwen Financial padded time sheets and claimed excessive and improper expenses, including lengthy travel and meals at strip clubs and casinos, according to a lawsuit filed against Fidelity Information Services.