The Southern California housing market has delivered enough pain to go around this year, so far.Pain for home sellers and their agents in the form of persistently slow sales. Pain for homebuyers in the form of persistently high prices and mortgage rates. “Affordability remains a major hurdle,” Redfin senior economist Sheharyar Bokhari said in a

If all goes well this week, Imelda Collins will sell her cottage in the north of Ireland to an unknown buyer. She doesn’t know exactly how much she’ll get for it. But she’s giving everyone a chance to buy it for $6.70.Ms. Collins is selling her home via an online raffle, a method that eschews

Ms. Lau, who had a string of high-profile clients, died in January. She put her signature stamp on her prewar unit.The interior designer Amy Lau’s Manhattan apartment, which she meticulously renovated and continued working on months before her death, is being sold by her estate.The asking price for the home, a one-bedroom co-op on the

The federal government is offering real estate investors an unusual opportunity — the chance to buy a historic courthouse and office building in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The landmark U.S. Courthouse built in the 1930s on Spring Street near City Hall has been slated for “accelerated disposition” by the General Services Administration as

In This Article When I first became a landlord, I was more worried about finding a tenant than about the lease. I downloaded a template I found online, filled in the basics, and called it good. Rent amount, due date, signatures—I figured that’s all that really mattered.  For a while, it worked. My first tenant

In This Article Last Friday, Moody’s Ratings downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating from Aaa to Aa1. As a result, Treasury yields surged Monday morning, with the 10-year note jumping to 4.53% and the 30-year bill surpassing 5%. The S&P 500 fell by about 50 points, and the Nasdaq dropped 1.3%. While Moody’s downgrade certainly