Real Estate

A key measure of home prices out Tuesday suggests the California housing recovery has stalled, at least for now.

Signed contracts for previously owned homes rose less than expected last month as the national housing market struggled to gain momentum.

By most measures, the housing market should be roaring.

Question: Our homeowner association manager insists on having the only key and access to all four official association-owned locked glass bulletin board cases above mailboxes throughout the complex. Majority directors let her do whatever she wants. These glass cases are intended to post...

Question: I am a widow who owns two homes. I live in one of the homes and rent the other to provide for most of my monthly living costs. Rents are going up, and I have been giving some thought to implementing a rent increase as my monthly living expenses are going up too. My tenant has been...

There are fewer military boots on the ground overseas, but here at home there have been major campaigns in the housing market this year directed at veterans.

For Alison Berger, the journey to becoming a designer of fine hand-blown crystal and handsomely engineered lighting fixtures began with childhood summer nights catching fireflies in jars.

Ojai, a scenic little agricultural city, has for the better part of a century lured individuals pursuing spiritual enlightenment and artists seeking inspiration and calm. Now a new crop of makers and merchants is traveling the 90 miles north of Los Angeles to bask in Ojai's groovy,...

Original mahogany walls and limestone flooring at the entry of this rebuilt and expanded Irish country-style manor in La Cañada Flintridge recall the gracious living of an earlier era. Streams, bridges and mature trees complete the grounds of the estate.

Lady Gaga has shelled out $23 million to bowl in Malibu.

Set amid oak trees, waterfalls and massive boulders, this steel-and-glass compound has more than 12,000 square feet of living space. The museum-like contemporary is entered through a dramatic center hall with soaring ceilings.