Real Estate

Fixed mortgage interest rates fell this week to their lowest level in more than 20 months, with Freddie Mac reporting that lenders were offering conventional 30-year loans at an average of 3.59%, down from 3.66% a week ago.

After Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927, thousands gathered on Broadway to give the famed aviator a ticker tape parade. A similar throng hailed John F. Kennedy during the presidential campaign of 1960. For most of the 20th century, Broadway was Los Angeles' cultural center.

The nation's richest public pension fund was a big winner in the settlement with Standard & Poor's Financial Services over its ratings on mortgage-backed securities lawsuits.

A pair of 1920s estates, Ashlee Simpson’s onetime Encino residence and a Paul McClean-designed contemporary were among the most expensive sales in the greater Los Angeles area this last week.

In May 2004, as the U.S. housing market was heating up, Standard & Poor's Financial Services lost to a rival a huge deal to rate mortgage-backed securities to be issued by a major Japanese bank.

Question: My family has lived in an apartment for the last five years with no problems, but to our astonishment, we were just served with eviction papers. In the past, we signed a new lease every year. This year when our lease expired, we were told that management had decided not to offer us...

The art of handcrafted woodwork is thriving in Los Angeles, thanks in part to the World Wide Web, which allows artisans to sell their products directly to the public. Here are some Southern California woodworkers whose designs can lend any home a chiseled, natural glow.

Books are a source of endless inspiration as well as a thriving business for Thatcher Wine.

Question: I rent a condo and have noticed several owners growing vegetables and herbs in planters at their front doors and balconies and those with single-family homes gardening in their backyards. Can I grow vegetables too, and how would I go about getting permission to do this?

Call them the prodigal millennials: Statistical measures and anecdotal reports suggest that young couples and singles in their late 20s and early 30s have begun making a belated entry into the home-buying market, pushed by mortgage rates in the mid-3% range, government efforts to ease credit...

This two-story contemporary in Malibu's Point Dume area is designed in an S-shape with curved glass walls to evoke the waves and nearby shoreline. Glass doors open to an outdoor living area to seamlessly blend the interior and exterior entertainment space.