Home sales in Riverside County jumped 4.1 percent in May, compared to the same month a year ago, but prices dipped by 28.6 percent, a real estate information service reported Monday.
According to DataQuick, bargain shoppers pushed Southern California home sales higher in May compared to April, but it was still the slowest May in more [...]
Firefighters from more than a dozen agencies on Monday were battling to stop a 700-acre wildfire as it came within a mile of about 2,000 homes on a hot and windy day, officials said.
Two volunteer firefighters were taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, said Mary Kay Hicks, a Texas Forest Service spokeswoman. No other [...]
An economist might deem the opportunity cost of building versus buying a house right now to be unacceptably high. And judging from emails I have received, so do some of my readers.
With the U.S. in a housing slump there’s an ever growing array of homes for sale at lower prices. Meanwhile, prices for supplies like [...]
A former Republican mayoral candidate who hoped to auction his home to help pay legal expenses for his trial on campaign finance charges ran into a roadblock when the house failed to sell.
Kelty’s legal battle has proven costly since he was indicted on nine counts by an Allen County grand jury last August, three months [...]
FEDERAL Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek has given the thumbs down to tax breaks on loans for first home-buyers.
Aussie Home Loans boss John Symond has said the measure would help ease the housing affordability crisis.
But Ms Plibersek said it wasn’t the fairest way of helping first home buyers.
What needed to be done was to make sure [...]
Homebuilder Standard Pacific Corp. said Monday its net new home orders, excluding discontinued operations, for April and May fell 12 percent from the same period last year, blaming a tough housing market.
Adjusting for the number of active selling communities, new home orders, excluding discontinued operations, were down 18 percent on a same-store basis, the company [...]
A second day of hot weather and dry wind stoked new wildfires across Northern California on Wednesday, as firefighters battled blazes that have damaged at least 50 homes and threaten hundreds more.
About 1,500 residents in the heavily forested hills north of Santa Cruz were told Wednesday afternoon to leave their homes as a quick-moving wildfire [...]
Authorities in southwestern Minnesota are investigating a home invasion in which an intruder was shot and wounded.
Police responded to a call shortly after midnight from a home near Truman, which is southwest of Mankato. Marcella Sauck called to report that a man was in her home and assaulting her husband, Elmer.
Marcella Sauck was flown to [...]
DeKalb County police are looking for two home invaders who tied up a wife and husband in their house Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened around 3 p.m. in a neighborhood near Emory University, police said. A woman living in the 2800 block of Laurelgate Drive on the DeKalb side of Atlanta pulled into her driveway to [...]
Whether a Jackson firm advertised home security system installation without a license will soon be decided in Jackson County District Court.
At the conclusion of a preliminary examination today, Judge Michael Klaeren said there was probable cause to bind over the case involving the Total Security Agency but only by the “barest margin.”
Russ Jennings, who is [...]