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Existing Home Sales Rise to Fastest Pace in Three Years
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Expedites Temporary Housing For Residents In Areas Struck By LA Wildfires
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Pasadena Native Lost Her House To LA Wildfires One Day After Paying Off Her Mortgage: 'It's Gone'
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How The Mircale Malibu Mansion And Pacific Palisades Home Survived The Devastating LA Fires
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What Happens To Your Mortgage And Property Tax When You Lose Your Home In A Natural Disaster?
China home prices showed fresh signs of recovery taking hold in November, the fourth month in the last five to show a rise as a two-year long government campaign to curb prices frays. Israel Approves 1,500 More Settler Homes in East Jerusalem
Israel approved plans to build 1,500 more Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem on Monday, an official said, days after provoking international protests against a project for another 3,000 such homes on land it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. UBS Faces $1.5 Billion Day of Reckoning Over Rate Rigging
UBS AG will pay around $1.5 billion to settle charges that a group of traders at its Japanese unit rigged Libor interest rates, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday as the Swiss bank prepares for a deal with regulators. As Crisis Brewed, Growing But Uneven Concerns at NY Fed
Top officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York expressed growing but uneven concerns about the brewing mortgage-market crisis in 2007 and 2008, according to minutes of board meetings that underline how authorities failed to grasp the real dangers the economy faced at that time. After Sandy, Adjuster Comes, But Not the Cash (Commentary)
When your home is destroyed, your first urge is to fix it. You want to rebuild, remove the smell of saturated insulation and the sight of mud-stained floors with the new, the clean, the livable. Dundee Shares Surge After Restructing Real Estate Unit
Shares of Dundee Corp soared as much as 14 percent on Friday after the asset management company said it would distribute half of its stake in its real estate unit to shareholders, unlocking value in frustration over what it believed was a low share price. Squatters of Rome Scrape By at the Margins in Italy's Crisis
When Mariangela Schiena moved to Rome from southern Italy 11 years ago, all she hoped for was a simple life, with a roof over her head and a home where she could start a family. Hong Kong Leader Survives No Confidence Vote Over Building Work
Hong Kong's new leader Leung Chun-ying narrowly survived a motion of no-confidence on Wednesday over unauthorized building works in his home that have undermined his integrity and triggered calls for his resignation. U.S. Seizes Texas Condo Says It Was Owned By Former Mexican Governor
A U.S. federal judge said the government has seized a luxury Texas condominium purportedly owned by a fugitive former Mexican governor wanted on suspicion of aiding drug traffickers, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Tuesday. PIMCO Flagship Fund Cut Mortgages, Treasures Ahead of FED Call
The PIMCO Total Return Fund, the world's largest bond fund, reduced its exposure to mortgage bonds and Treasuries in November after profiting as a result of the Federal Reserve's stimulus measures, data from the firm's website shows.