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California home sales continued strong last month as investors snapped up mid- to high-end homes, though it was unclear whether the rebound will continue through the year, real estate research firm DataQuick reported Wednesday.

The region recorded its highest February sales in six years, with 15,945 homes sold in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San

Increasing demand from new arrivals to the United States is helping to strengthen the housing sector, according to a new report from the Mortgage Bankers Association analyzing the effects of immigration on real estate market trends.

“Immigrants are an important and growing source of demand that has bolstered housing markets in recent decades,” Prof. Dowell

Almost every corner of the Bay Area is poised for robust home-price  appreciation this year in a surge that will outpace projected national growth,  according to a forecast from real-estate information site Zillow.com.

Looking at 245 Bay Area ZIP codes, Zillow projects that 244 will see home  values ratchet up by significant margins in 2013, with 27 ZIPs

There is a lot of current discussion in the City of Santa Cruz about needle exchange, and quite a few anecdotal reports of people encountering discarded needles in public.

Unfortunately, there isn't information about what to do if you find a discarded needle, who to call, or how to dispose of it. After asking around, a contact with SC County who wishes to

Photos from 2013's Open House Extravaganza: the snacks were delicious. The art was plentiful and varied. The crowd was friendly and the accordionist played on...

At MakersFactory, Gamealot showed game pieces, some made by 3D printing 

Dave Britton shows a visitor around MakersFactory:
 

Back in the coworking atrium, people enjoy art, snacks, beer and

Many states with faster foreclosure processes are seeing sharper increases in home prices.

There are exceptions. And other factors, such as job growth, are likely stronger drivers of home price trends, economists say.

But home price data generally show stronger price increases in states where courts don't have to approve foreclosures than in states where they

Turnaround trends continued apace in the Bay Area housing market last month with the strongest January sales in six years and the tenth straight year-over-year increase in the median sale price, a real estate information service reported.

A total of 5,501 new and resale houses and condos were sold in the nine-county Bay Area last month. That was down 28.4

What has been reported nationally about the resurgent single-family housing market and the reasons for its recent growth spurt undoubtedly applies to California. Low inventory, rising median sales prices and a swarm of cash investors are just a few of the explanations, but it's important to remember that the local market is unique inits own right. From

The CoreLogic Pending HPI indicates that January 2013 home prices, including distressed sales, are expected to rise by 7.9 percent on a year-over-year basis from January 2012 and fall by 1 percent on a month-over-month basis from December 2012, reflecting a seasonal winter slowdown. Excluding distressed sales, January 2013 house prices are poised to rise

If California is a setter of future real estate trends -- as it has been in the past -- a report that foreclosures in the Golden State fell to the lowest level since 2006 is good news for the entire nation. According to San Diego-based DataQuick, the number of California homeowners pushed into the foreclosure process fell last quarter to the lowest level in