FULL COVERAGE: SOUTHLAND HOUSING MARKET

Recent coverage of the current Southern California housing market and related issues.

(Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
WAITING IT OUT: Eric Broida is interested in buying a nearby house but doesn't plan on doing so until the asking price drops an additional $400,000. Experts say prices could fall 15% to 25% before rising again.
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U.S. home prices still falling, but not quite as steeply
REAL ESTATE
By Peter Y. Hong
S & P/Case-Shiller index shows a decline of 18% in April from a year earlier. The January year-to-year drop was 19%. In the L.A. area, prices fell 21% from April to April; the January drop was 25%.
July 1, 2009

KB Home chief says prices are stabilizing in some parts of the U.S.
By Peter Y. Hong
Yet challenging conditions are still ahead for the nation's home builders, Jeffrey Mezger says. The company reports a narrower second-quarter loss of $78.4 million and a 40% drop in revenue.
June 27, 2009

May's new-home sales in U.S. drop almost 33% from a year ago
By Peter Y. Hong
From April to May, the national rate was down less than 1%. New-home sales in the West rose slightly from April, by 1.3%.
June 24, 2009

Sales of previously owned homes in U.S. fall in May
REAL ESTATE
By Peter Y. Hong
Last month was better than April, as usual, but sales nationwide fell 3.6% from a year earlier, despite low prices and tax incentives. The West bucks the trend with an 8.7% increase.
June 24, 2009

Existing home sales in the U.S. rose in May for a second month as record foreclosures caused prices to drop.
June 23, 2009

associated press
The Dow sheds 16 points, while the S & P 500 index edges up in a relatively quiet session as investors await word from the Fed on interest rates.
June 24, 2009

By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
The median price jumps for a second month in a row. Overall sales are up for a ninth consecutive month.
June 19, 2009

Southern California home prices rise slightly in May
REAL ESTATE
By Peter Y. Hong
The median price was $249,000, which is up less than 1% from $247,000 in April. It was the first month-to-month gain since July 2007.
June 18, 2009

Rising interest rates send Dow down 24 points
WALL STREET
By Tom Petruno
Investors are demanding higher yields on long-term Treasury notes, and that in turn is pushing up mortgage rates.
June 11, 2009

Opinion
By Douglas C. Neff and Gerd-Ulf Krueger
Despite the shaky economy, resales have been booming. That may be a sign that basic economics is working to stabilize the market.
March 28, 2009

By Paul Pringle
The charity was founded by a scandal-ridden Los Angeles chapter of the Service Employees International Union. Its stated aim was to provide housing to low-income workers.
December 13, 2008

Bring your latte and join us in the 'hood
Blowback
By Alisa Smith
Everyone in Glassell Park -- gang members included -- deserves a better community, not just those who fled high home prices in West L.A.
November 24, 2008

By Louis Sahagun, Mike Anton and Mitchell Landsberg
From Santa Barbara to Orange County, hundreds of homes burn and thousands of people are evacuated. A mobile home park in Sylmar appears to lose the highest number of housing units in L.A. history.
November 16, 2008

TRENDS
By David Hay
Homes by Lautner, Neutra aren't fetching the prices they once brought.
October 18, 2008

Editorial
Bullet trains, children's healthcare and veterans' housing all deserve support.
October 2, 2008

By Paul Pringle
Two government lots were sold for $1 each to a housing corporation that lacked the tax-exempt status it claimed. The group was founded under the direction of Tyrone Freeman, head of the local.
September 6, 2008

THE SCOUT
The home furnishings designer will close its La Brea store to focus on Web sales. Look for large markdowns.
June 12, 2008

Housing downturn is a jolt to upscale Temecula
OUT THERE
By Scott Gold
In the inland city, sold as a sort of Napa of Southern California, as many as 15% of the 22,500 single-family homes may be bank-owned or in some stage of foreclosure.
June 6, 2008

By Larry Gordon
Conquest Student Housing agrees to stop challenging rival developers' plans to build within two miles of the university's main campus.
January 28, 2008

THE BIG FIX
By CHRISTOPHER THORNBERG
Southland house prices have risen past sustainable levels for most homeowners.
December 28, 2007

On a Palmdale street, foreclosure is in the air
MORTGAGE MELTDOWN
By Peter Y. Hong
Though the city in theory stands to benefit from Bush's mortgage relief plan, agents and homeowners say it may be too little too late.
December 18, 2007

THE ECONOMY
By Jonathan Peterson
The White House's move to deal with the growing foreclosure rate comes amid concerns about the '08 elections.
December 5, 2007

LOANS
By Kathy M. Kristof
The mortgage lender is subpoenaed over charges to homeowners in bankruptcy.
November 29, 2007

L.A., O.C. home prices decline sharply
By Peter Y. Hong
Local prices of single-family homes fell 7% in September from a year earlier. San Diego had the third-biggest drop, at 9.6%, about double the average in a survey of 20 metro areas.
November 28, 2007

By Peter Y. Hong
Eric S. Broida wants to trade up. He has been eyeing a multimillion-dollar house near his Pacific Palisades home and thinks it might be a bargain. Eventually, that is.
November 27, 2007

Those at the San Diego event urge more help for mortgage borrowers at risk of foreclosure.
November 22, 2007

Programs help low- and moderate-income buyers finally get in the door.

By Peter Y. Hong and Maura Reynolds
Southland purchases in September fall nearly 50% from a year earlier. Prices drop overall, but L.A. County's rise 1.2%.
October 17, 2007

REAL ESTATE
By Ann Brenoff
Discounted new homes and foreclosures sink sales of existing houses.
October 14, 2007


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