California

Homebuyers are fleeing dense Bay Area neighborhoods for Wine Country environs, heating up a local real estate market rapidly recovering from a pandemic-induced slowdown.

Leslie DeLuca has been a real estate agent in Monterey County, Calif., for 20 years and thought she'd seen every fluctuation of the market.

The lightning-ignited Hennessey Fire destroyed 254 single-family homes in Napa County, Calif., making it one of the most destructive in county history, Cal Fire reported.

In a summer surprise, home values continued an upward surge again last month in the Sacramento region despite the ongoing economic turbulence caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Gavin Newsom late Monday signed a stopgap measure to rein in evictions, offering limited protections for tenants and aid to landlords hit financially by the coronavirus pandemic.

The California plan to create a new, tougher state regulatory agency is at the finish line after lawmakers agreed to key exemptions for banks while maintaining strong enforcement measures for payday lenders and other firms.

Tight inventory and unstoppable buyers pushed Bay Area median home prices higher in July, ignoring the economic drag of the pandemic.

In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, Napa County home sales skyrocketed in July, rising 79.8% from June to July, the California Association of Realtors reported.

Orange County, Calif., home buying rebounded last month to levels above 2019, a buying surge that pushed the median sales price to its sixth record high of 2020.

The California Assembly is considering a bill that would require local governments to permit duplexes on parcels now largely restricted to one house, in effect eliminating single-family zoning that dominates in most suburban residential neighborhoods.