Real Estate News

While it’s not a significant decline, mortgage applications still reversed course and dropped in the latest mortgage application survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association. However, it’s not like the last report’s increase was any greater. Source link …Read More

A new report says that economic development officials seeking to revive underpopulated urban neighborhoods may be overlooking a promising population to help renovate distressed housing: immigrants. Source link …Read More

Randy Beck’s second home, on more than 6 acres in Big Bear, has all the trappings of a resort. Two arenas and training facilities for horses. A man-made lake sporting an island golf green and stocked with largemouth bass …Read More

The median tenure homeowners plan to stay in their homes soared with the housing recession in 2008 for good reasons. Millions of owners were underwater and millions more lacked the 20 percent equity need to sell their home.  Many facing …Read More

September housing starts fell sharply, but the drops belies a big improvement for the market. Source link …Read More

If there’s one part of the San Fernando Valley that most expressed the go-go spirit of Space Age America, it’s Canoga Park. The neighborhood is where aerospace giant Rocketdyne designed the massive rockets that would take us to the moon and …Read More

A group of senators is already asking the Department of Justice to use a new policy to target individuals at Wells Fargo for corporate misconduct (and maybe even more) in the wake of the fake account scandal surrounding the …Read More

Langston Hughes’ Harlem home has shot up in value in recent years. A group of writers is raising money to save it from being turned into condos or coffee shops. Source link …Read More

Moreno Valley is helping pay for for an apartment project for low-income tenants and seniors. The City Council approved an agreement Tuesday, March 15, with Rancho Belago Developers, Inc., to give the developer $4.5 million in loans through state …Read More

As lending standards have loosened over the past four years, closing rates have steadily improved and in August, approvals rates for all mortgages were more than 50 percent higher than they were in August 2012, according to the latest Origination …Read More