Home of the Week: A Moorish masterpiece in Hollywood Hills West
A keyhole-arched front door dressed in ornamental details sets the stage for this Moorish Revival-style home in Hollywood Hills West. …
Hot Property Newsletter: Passing go
Welcome to Hollywood’s life-size version of Monopoly, where celebrities are busy buying, selling, expanding portfolios and flipping houses. Among those rolling the dice in the real estate game this week are a music mogul, singers…
Google promises $1 billion to help fix Bay Area housing crisis it helped create
Google is pledging to invest $1 billion to develop housing in and around Silicon Valley, where the success of the search giant and its competitors has contributed to soaring home prices. Over the next decade,…
Google pledges $1 billion to tackle Bay Area housing crisis
Google pledged $1 billion over the next 10 years to try to address an affordable housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area. The tech giant will repurpose $750 million worth of its own land…
Hot Property: Tyra Banks, model home flipper
Supermodel, television host and celebrity home-flipper Tyra Banks has bought a Pacific Palisades home for a little over $3 million. The 1949 traditional house, which has been owned by the same family for 70 years,…
How to boost your credit score before you buy a house
Dear Liz: I am trying to purchase my first home. I have a 20% down payment for the price range that I am looking for. The issue I am running into is that I have…
Hot Property: Adam Levine and Ellen DeGeneres make music in the housing market
No two celebrities have been as prolific in the real estate market in recent years as Adam Levine and Ellen DeGeneres. So, it’s fitting that the two have come together on a deal of their…
Herbert Sandler, half of couple who built a home-lending giant, dies at 87
Herbert Sandler, the surviving half of a husband-and-wife team who built the second-largest savings and loan and helped popularize an adjustable-rate mortgage blamed in part for the housing crash, has died. He was 87. Sandler…
Blackstone bets big on Amazon, e-commerce with $18.7-billion acquisition
The mall is now a warehouse, and Blackstone Group is betting $18.7 billion on the shift. That’s how much the New York investment manager is paying for 179 million square feet of urban logistics properties…