Real Estate

With Los Angeles facing one of the nation's worst housing crunches, Mayor Eric Garcetti urged the city to pick up the pace on home building and add 100,000 new homes by 2021.

Moving higher for a second week, the 30-year mortgage rate broke back above 4%. Freddie Mac calculated that lenders were offering the most popular home loan at an average of 4.02%.

A massive housing development waylaid by the economic downturn is springing back to life, marking a return of large-scale projects to Southern California.

An $80-million outdoor shopping and dining complex under construction in El Segundo has signed up nearly half of the tenants expected for the mall when it opens next summer.

First-time home buyers aren’t buying homes like they used to.

Question: At homeowner association board meetings I ask for current and two prior fiscal years of documents. Nearly a year has passed with none of my requests fulfilled, so at great cost I hired an attorney.

Since the grand opening of the Rose Bowl Flea Market more than 45 years ago, innumerable treasure hunters have crossed the threshold at the historic gates to roam the vast expanse, feeling thrill-of-the-chase excitement. But how do you find the best items, the most favorable prices from...

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.

The equity boom, which has added an estimated $1.6 trillion to the personal net wealth of American homeowners in the last year, has slowed dramatically. It's not over by any means. It has just lost some of its previous pep.

Water elements and a glassed-in breezeway lead to a sleek contemporary in Bel-Air. The newly built mansion opens to an outdoor seating area, lawn and an infinity-edge pool with panoramic cityscape views that stretch to the ocean.

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...