ANTIOCH -- All African-American residents of the city who receive Section 8 housing aid can join a class-action discrimination suit, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
WASHINGTON -- Mortgage rates fell to the lowest level in decades for the tenth time in 11 weeks, as investors worried about the economy. The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan was 4.
WASHINGTON -- The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak.
NEW YORK -- Mortgage applications rose 2.7 percent last week as more borrowers took advantage of the lowest rates in decades to reduce their monthly loan payments.
The owners of a former nursery in downtown Larkspur have filed a lawsuit seeking to end their nearly 13-year relationship with a Walnut Creek developer, a move that throws long-standing plans to build 85 residences at the site into limbo.
WASHINGTON -- Home prices rose in June for a third straight month as now-expired tax credits inspired a burst of homebuying. But prices are expected to fall through the rest of the year now that demand has faded.
Colliers International is responding with an emphatic "not so fast" to any inkling that the commercial real estate firm is losing ground to Grubb & Ellis in an East Bay turf war.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The home sale slump has left some dwellings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and other architectural luminaries languishing on the Southern California market.