Real Estate

The Ithaca Tenants Union is trying to get rent canceled in their city, where the unemployment rate is 11%. The group’s co-founder, Liel Sterling, and organizer Sam Kwan explain their strategy and how others can do the same in their own cities and towns.

Millennial real estate agent Jonathan Alpart addresses how expiring eviction protections due to the coronavirus are affecting the housing market and provides tips for first-time buyers, including talking to your real-estate agent about a COVID-19 Addendum.

A Southern California woman was arrested Friday on charges of swindling investors, mainly from China, out of $21.6 million in a phony condominium and hotel complex project. Ruixue “Serena” Shi, 36, of Arcadia, was taken into custody by FBI agents on a criminal complaint charging her with wire fraud, a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office said. It wasn’t...

If millennials once piled into the cities, fueling downtown renewal and growth, apparently they are now piling out. The stay-at-home orders brought on by coronavirus have more potential homebuyers looking for properties in the suburbs. Millennials are now the largest cohort of buyers.

‘Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles’ is returning for an all new season and one of its stars Josh Altman has some tips to help get rid of your real estate blues.

Rent or buy: it’s a decision many millennials are pondering. A recent study shows that it’s cheaper to purchase rather than rent in the majority of the top 50 markets.

With all the time we’ve spent at home lately, have you thought of maybe upgrading, and is it a good time to buy? Amber Pfister zoomed with our real estate expert Arvin Haddad to get some answers.

Surveys show a growing number of tech workers now say if they can work from home, they would likely work from home in a cheaper state.

New leases for Manhattan apartments plunged by 71% in April, and vacancies soared as the rental market froze amid the coronavirus pandemic and more residents left the city, according to a new report.

At a two-hour open house in Atlanta on Saturday, about a dozen mostly masked families toured the six-bedroom, six-bathroom, newly built home priced at just over $3 million. Noah Graubart and his wife were looking for something close to their children’s new elementary school.

Keeping a safe social distance in the time of Covid-19 is aimed at protecting us from getting sick, but it’s also creating a new opportunity for scammers who are now targeting people looking for a place to live. Comedian and actress Vickie Eisenstein has encountered this herself. Eisenstein loves her YouTube audience.  So in typical Hollywood style, when she...

Home prices have only fallen nationally once since the Great Depression, and that was following the subprime mortgage crisis and the Great Recession. Now, barely eight years after hitting bottom, and after a mighty recovery, prices are predicted to fall nationally again, down 2-3% this year, according to Zillow.

More than 800 tax-defaulted properties throughout Riverside County will be on the auction block, open for electronic bidding, beginning Thursday. The Office of the Treasurer-Tax Collector is again partnering with hosting site Bid4Assets.com to conduct the exclusively online auction on houses and vacant parcels seized as a result of unpaid property taxes. The auction is scheduled to run from...

Home sales nearly ground to a halt at the end of March, as the coronavirus pandemic forced an economic shutdown that scuttled open houses and shattered consumer confidence. Now, demand appears to be coming back, especially for newly built homes.

Would you spend your savings on a home, sight-unseen? That’s the new reality, thanks to the “stay at home” guidelines in the city of Los Angeles, as the mayor has now banned in-person viewings. Open houses aren’t allowed in Los Angeles, and prospective homebuyers can’t even book a private viewing.  It’s one of the tightest restrictions when it comes...

Amber Pfister talks to an expert about buying or selling a home during the pandemic.

Many agents are relying on virtual tours to showcase houses, since the stay-at-home order prohibits in-person visits. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 9, 2020.

Buying or selling a home? Here are some tips to ensure you do not get scammed when making a payment.