Los Angeles Area Real Estate News
By Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times
What mortgage meltdown?
By E. Scott Reckard
With employment improving and the fiscal cliff averted, fixed mortgage rates have jumped to their highest level in two months, with...
By E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times
In sweeping new rules aimed at fixing the home lending market, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday will define a "qualified...
By Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times
When housing prices first went off the cliff, most mortgage lenders refused to cut deals with homeowners, choosing instead to repossess...
By Alejandro Lazo
Last year was probably one of the most affordable years ever to buy a house as prices bottomed and mortgage interest rates hit record lows.
By Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
Madonna has put her mansion in Beverly Hills up for sale in the Multiple Listing Service at $22.5 million.
By Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
Actor Matt Damon may have been a neighbor to "Good Will Hunting" pal Ben Affleck for several months now, but his purchase of an...
By Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
The Frank Gehry-designed Schnabel House in Brentwood has sold for $9.5 million.
By Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
Topping any L.A. area home sales last year, a 9.5-acre estate in Malibu owned by billionaire Howard Marks and his wife, Nancy,...
By E. Scott Reckard and Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
In two of the biggest civil settlements since the financial crisis, the nation's biggest banks agreed Monday to cough up nearly $19...
