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Rising home prices are raising concerns among some housing analysts that prices could again become unaffordable if price gains outpace income growth.

The practice of agencies’ sharing offices with tax services has slowed as business has grown more competitive. But in some areas of the city, it is still mutually beneficial.

It's still possible to buy a foreclosure and make it the home of your dreams. It's just harder these days.

As home prices rise, some real investment investors see less of an opportunity for a quick buck

The city of Burbank has come in for some serious dissing since news broke that "The Tonight Show" may leave NBC studios at Olive and Alameda avenues in search of an edgier, fresher vibe in New York City .

As welcome as a long-awaited improvement in the American housing market may be, the unusually low level of homes for sale is creating problems for buyers and sellers alike.

WASHINGTON — Home equity is back, and it's growing fast.

According to the latest data from the Federal Reserve, Americans' net equity in their houses jumped nearly $500 billion during the last three months of 2012 and $1.7 trillion since spring 2011.

Southern California once again saw strong home price increases last month as the percentage of absentee buyers hit a record high and cash buyers remained a dominant force.

Robert Schiavelli's laugh got him in trouble with his neighbor -- and now he's facing charges.

WASHINGTON — Could rental houses owned and managed by deep-pocketed hedge funds and big investors be the post-bust steppingstones to homeownership for huge numbers of renters?

Nearly half of all California households can now afford the median-priced home in the state — but that's no help if they can't get mortgages.

Numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau have once again reaffirmed what we all know and complain about every. single. day. Commuting in Los Angeles sucks, and for some, it literally sucks the life right out of them.

WASHINGTON — They're back after barely a decade: escalation clauses in real estate contracts, "naked" contingency-free offers and low-ball-priced listings designed to pull in dozens of bidders and turn routine sales transactions into auctions.

At the REOMAC 2013 Summit & Expo in Dallas on Monday, keynote speaker Rick Sharga, executive vice president of Carrington Mortgage Holdings, addressed what’s in store for the housing market and if the recovery is for real.

Seemingly overnight, many of the nation's major housing markets have gone from stagnant to sizzling, with for-sale listings spurring bidding wars among a large number of house hunters.

Every day Larry Schweber can see his 8-year-old daughter come home from school, even while he's at work. He gets a text message with a video clip every time someone walks through the front door of his home in Georgia's Ansley Park neighborhood.

"If you're selling one house just to move up to another, it does you no good to wait for prices to rise — the price of the move-up home will increase faster than the price of the place you're leaving behind," said Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman.

Fewer borrowers nationwide owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, providing a boost to the housing recovery, according to a new report.

Homes sold faster last month than in any February since 2007 as eager buyers overran the supply of homes for sale, industry figures show.

A minimum wage worker in California must toil about 130 hours a week in order to feasibly afford a two-bedroom rental, a new report found.

Where buyers are shelling out.

Few markets crashed harder than Compton when California's real estate bubble burst.

There’s no question about it, the operative theme of the 2013 housing market is restricted supply. Ever since the bubble burst in 2006, we’ve been hearing about the dangers of over supply, of the

The housing market is seeing prices appreciate at a normal pace, with further growth expected in the next five years, according to Fiserv Inc.
From Q3 2011 to Q3 2012, home prices rose by 3.6 percent, the Fiserv Case-Shiller Indexes revealed.