New legislation in Sacramento encourages urban and suburban housing while discouraging exurban sprawl that paves over wilderness and invites fires and floods....
Los Angeles housing officials are planning to step in with immediate help to stabilize residential buildings that the financially strapped Skid Row Housing Trust is unable to maintain in habitable condition....
A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it....
L.A. County's proposed earthquake rules would require certain older concrete buildings in unincorporated areas, and those owned by the county, to be retrofitted....
Columnist Frank Shyong first visited Focus Plaza as a seventh-grader with his family. He sees the mall's renovation as a symbol of Southern California's changing Chinese population....
In an area where there is little undeveloped land and neighbors are likely to push back at new housing, some see the declining malls as ideal places to build....
Oops, it was just a misunderstanding: 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' alum Kim Zolciak-Biermann won't see her home sold at auction over a loan default....
Mark Wahlberg just sold his French-inspired mega-mansion in Beverly Park for $55 million, Southern California's priciest home sale so far this year....
Selling a rental property is more complicated than selling your personal home. If you're not using the proceeds to buy another property, it's going to cost you....
Data reveal that if not a buyer's market, then the Bay Area is a more buyer-friendly market. Homes are relatively cheaper — a pattern that may manifest in Los Angeles....
The San Pedro Fish Market and Restaurant will close its location in the Ports O' Call Village in March. The restaurant plans to remain in San Pedro....
The flaws of non-ductile concrete construction are found across California, with many buildings having not been evaluated or retrofitted and at risk of collapse in a serious earthquake....