Eleven defendants have been arrested for running a real estate crime ring that stole the identities of elderly homeowners for title deed theft and loan fraud. According to the indictment, between January 2021 to May 2023 the fraudsters obtained the personal...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has dropped his lawsuit against Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), after claiming Pulte used a mortgage fraud investigation against him as an act of political retribution. Politico reports the lawsuit was...
Closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California reached a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 274,820 in February, according to data released by the California Association of Realtors (CAR). Last month’s sales were up by 7% from 256,910...
The Northern California estate that was once the home of Oscar-winning singer and actor Bing Crosby has been listed for sale at $28.9 million, nine months after it sold for $25 million. When the property sold last June, it was marked down from its original asking...
The negative impact of a neighbor’s yard on a home sale, a Seattle billionaire abruptly moves to Florida, and a department store executive vows to keep his locations open. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of March...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
