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LOS ANGELES — As the office market bottoms out after a long fall, renters are swooping in to buy their own buildings.

Occupant businesses are seizing the opportunity to become owners, especially in downtown Los Angeles, where glittering high-rises have plummeted in value since occupancy dropped during the pandemic. It has never fully ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Culver City, a once-quiet corner of L.A. County people would pass through on their way somewhere else, has emerged as a destination of choice for some of the world’s best-known companies.

Apple, Amazon, TikTok, and Sony are just a few of the big names with a strong presence in the city of fewer than 40,000 residents, ...Read more

“Eat real food.” That new message, a key pillar of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, isn’t controversial. Nutritionists, scientists, politicians and lunchbox-packing parents all generally agree that’s a solid goal.

You’ve heard this statistic before: More than half of the calories Americans consume — 53% for adults and...Read more

Q: Our neighbor two doors down lets their dogs run wild. They have a fence, but they never keep the gate closed, and their three dogs are always all over the neighborhood doing their business on various lawns and bothering people. Is there anything we can do to stop this? — Juan

A: Handling neighborhood problems can be tough, especially when ...Read more

Mortgage rates ended March near their highest levels since mid-2025. In an ominous sign for the spring homebuying season, it’s possible that they’ll keep rising, mortgage experts say.

Blame the war in Iran, which has sent oil prices soaring in recent weeks. Higher energy prices translate to both higher inflation and rising 10-year Treasury ...Read more

MONTEREY PARK, California — Bryan Marsh was booed by the crowd as he approached the podium in Monterey Park's City Hall. Things weren't going as planned.

In front of a wall of people holding "No Data Center" placards, he outlined how his company, Australia's HMC StratCap, invested tens of millions of dollars and became the city's largest ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Before Caroline Podraza and her husband, Evan Roth, could find the right house, they had to find the right agent. There were, of course, agents attached to the listings they had saved, plus referrals from friends and suggestions from colleagues. But the choices quickly became overwhelming.

With more than 11,000 real estate ...Read more

Nevada’s HOA dispute resolution process is being looked at right now for “potential improvements” by the Nevada Real Estate Division, a spokesperson said.

Homeowners who have a dispute with an HOA must currently go through the state’s dispute resolution process before they’re allowed to file a civil suit, Teri Williams, a spokesperson...Read more

LOS ANGELES — All things considered, La Vina’s fire recovery is going fairly well.

The luxury community on the northwest tip of Altadena lost 52 of its 272 homes in the Eaton fire last year, but more than 70% are currently being rebuilt, and repairs to communal spaces are well underway.

But behind closed gates, a battle has been brewing ...Read more

The line between brokerage accounts and savings accounts is blurring as financial companies compete for your deposits. You don’t have to move money between different institutions to get competitive returns on your cash. Your brokerage account can act as both an investment platform and a high-yield savings alternative.

As brokerage accounts ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Do not trust anybody who says your money is not safe in the bank and it needs to be converted to cash or gold bars and moved to another location.

These instructions might seem simple to heed, but San Diego County crime victims are falling prey to a trending crime where people hand their life savings to criminals in the form of ...Read more

CHICAGO – As banking giveaways go, fintech company Acorns is offering Chicagoans something a little more valuable than the traditional pens and calendars.

Acorns is handing out cold, hard cash.

On Thursday, Acorns debuted its compounding vending machine at Big Star Wrigleyville, an out-of-the-box promotion that replaces potato chips with ...Read more

At a moment when America’s home insurance crisis has become bad enough to turn conservatives into socialists, a possible solution may just involve — you guessed it — big government. And contra Ronald Reagan, in this case there’s reason to think the government truly can help.

To address soaring insurance premiums and coverage gaps in an ...Read more

SEATTLE — A push to temporarily roll back Seattle’s defining housing policy of the late 2010s is gaining traction in City Hall as both developers and lawmakers look to plummeting permit applications with growing fear and search for ways to inject new supply into the city’s housing stock.

The Mandatory Housing Affordability program was the...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Twin Cities office market is a paradox: There’s a glut of empty space but rents keep rising.

“It’s opposite of what you’d think,” said Tom DeSautel, a commercial broker with Cushman & Wakefield. “No one is in the office. … How could my rent possibly be going up?”

New data shows that during February, the ...Read more