Leverage: A friend in real estate that can turn on you
There’s a flip side and it's become more common lately: negative leverage.
Housing
Southern California home prices leveling off as sales drop
Price growth fell to the lowest level in two years after the number of homes...
Real estate news: Senior apartments in Tustin sell for $83M; Fullerton Metrocenter snares $118M
The 55-and-older community in Tustin Ranch has 240 units with more than half of them...
Southern California rent inflation cools slower than US
No local market's rent hikes were below the nation's 4% annualized gain in the first...
HOA Homefront: Endless board, no annual meetings and toxic committee members
Unfortunately, it is all too common for HOAs to fail in membership meetings to attain...
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac adding a dose of competition to FICO credit scoring
Adding this competitor created by the big three credit bureaus likely means credit score prices...
Where in California do investors own the most houses?
Investors own more than half the houses in seven, lightly populated California counties.
Seal Beach’s Water Tower House, a relic of 1890s ingenuity, lists for $5.5M
The tower, built around 1892, originally supplied water to steam engines that traveled along the...
California, epicenter of nation’s housing crisis, finally getting a housing agency
Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s organizational chart,...
California’s wind and solar projects face new federal hurdles
Clean-energy projects have new deadlines for federal tax credits and limits on foreign parts, taking...