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By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes edged higher in May, as stubbornly high mortgage rates and rising prices made homebuying less affordable even as the inventory of properties on the market continued to increase. Existing home sales rose 0.8% last month from April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of

Compass, the real estate brokerage, claims that Zillow, the website that has 227 million unique visitors a month, has conspired to maintain a monopoly over digital home listings.Compass, the real estate brokerage that sells more houses than any of its competitors in the United States, has sued Zillow, the country’s largest real estate site —

After living in her two-bedroom apartment in Los Feliz for more than a decade, Debra Weiss encountered a problem experienced by many renters in Los Angeles: She was evicted.“I moved into the apartment in 2014, and four years later, my landlord sold it to a wealthy family who bought it at a loss,” said Weiss,

A three-bedroom in Mill Valley, a farmhouse in Philo and a cottage in Berkeley.Emily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveEmily Olman, Hopscotch InteractiveBerkeley | $1.295 millionA 1979 modern-style house, on 0.1

For years, Amale Andraos and Dan Wood didn’t need much when they escaped to their ramshackle second home in rural Rhode Island. Simply having a few days off was all they needed.Ms. Andraos and Mr. Wood are the founding partners of WORKac, a New York-based architecture firm with an international mix of projects. Ms. Andraos

Washing machines hum in the background as customers at Pearl Lee’s Washtub in Crown Heights sip beer, work on laptops and eat on the patio, waiting for spin cycles to finish. It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and what started as a laundry run has turned into an impromptu neighborhood gathering — exactly what the owner Theo

When ICE agents raided the construction site of a burned property in Altadena earlier this month, they made no arrests. The man they were after was not there. But the mere specter of them returning spooked the workers enough to bring the project to a temporary halt.The next day, half of the 12-man team stayed