Real Estate

Conversant Inc., a major digital marketer based in Westlake Village, agreed to be acquired by a Texas firm for $2.3 billion in cash and stock, creating one of the world's biggest online marketing and data-driven companies.

Underscoring the rapidly growing influence of Asian investments in the region, a Chinese investor group has sold one of the most desirable properties in the country to a development firm from China.

Newly listed in Beverly Hills: A move-in-ready home with a Dom Perignon-stocked 2,500-bottle wine room, an 18-seat tiered theater with a 14-foot screen and a $200,000 candy bar.

What may be L.A.’s most extreme home has hit the market in Beverly Hills at $85 million.

With mortgage rates at record lows for the year, you might figure that demand for home loans would be high -- but at this point Americans seem more interested in loading up their credit cards.

After stalling amid the housing bust, a 1,400-home development in Riverside County is coming back to life.

Candles that are for enjoying classical music or are shaped by rushing water. Fragrances that encourage guests to linger or scents designed as tributes to the men in our lives. New L.A.-based entrants in the field of home fragrances are differentiating themselves through distinctive...

When Laura Byford and Carol Veronique set up shop in Malibu three months ago, they knew they wanted to bring a couple of very specific things to the design world: microcement and metal.

A program designed to help prop up the Federal Housing Administration is short-changing borrowers and neighborhoods hard-hit by foreclosures, community groups said as they took to the streets to push for changes.

In the latest example of a curious journalistic genre--the pain and suffering of the 1%--the Wall Street Journal asks us this weekend to commiserate with six-figure income-earners facing bankruptcy.

WASHINGTON — If you've got it, tap it. That appears to be the strategy for growing numbers of homeowners across the country who have begun taking out home equity credit lines at a rapidly accelerating pace.