Fairfield Real Estate News

Thursday Dec 10 | via Contra Costa Times 

New-home sales soared in the East Bay, South Bay, the Peninsula-San Francisco area, and Solano County - but they plunged in San Joaquin County, Sonoma County and Napa County, the California Building Industry Association reported.

Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Housing, Solano County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

Wednesday Dec 9 | via Fairfield Citizen-News 

Debbie Sheiman walked into Eileen Gombos's office Monday afternoon with a gift-bag that held a dress she bought for her 3-year-old granddaughter.

Related Topix: Fairfield, CA, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Home, Mortgage

'For sale' signs harder to find on local homes

Tuesday Dec 8 | via Vallejo Times-Herald 

With median home prices as low as they've been in a decade, Solano County is running through its available inventory at breakneck speed, local experts say. 9 comments

Related Topix: Housing, Solano County, CA, Vallejo, CA, Real Estate, Benicia, CA

Friday Nov 20 | via The Reporter 

The Bay Area's housing market continued to ease back toward normalcy last month as fewer distressed properties sold and $500,000-plus sales accounted for a greater share of transactions than a year ago.

Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures

Unexpected water bill brings dismay to Solano County woman

Thursday Nov 19 | via The Reporter 

Ednalee Kelly looks through bills she received from the Vallejo Water Department. 39 comments

Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Solano County, CA, Home Listing, Home, Real Estate, Green Valley, CA

2 hrs ago | via KTLA 

The 39 branches of the failed First Federal Bank of California will reopen Saturday as branches of OneWest Bank.

Related Topix: California, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services

10 hrs ago | via Los Angeles Times 

Two more loss-battered Southern California banks were shut down by regulators Friday and immediately sold to two of the largest financial institutions based in the region.

Related Topix: California, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Pasadena, CA, IndyMac Bancorp, Financial Services, Banking, City National

10 hrs ago | via Victoria Advocate 

Originally published December 18, 2009 at 5:46 p.m., updated December 18, 2009 at 8:51 p.m. WASHINGTON a ' Regulators on Friday shut down two big California banks, as well as banks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Illinois, bringing to 140 the number of U.S. banks brought down this year by the weak economy and mounting loan defaults.

Related Topix: The Regulators, Country, California, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Construction

12 hrs ago | via WTOP 

Four years ago, suicides in this northern city were running at nearly double the national rate, and as the global financial meltdown hit Japan, they might have been expected to go even higher.

Related Topix: MPS Group, IT Services, Human Resources, Adecco SA, Florida, Florida Government, Airlines, Ryanair Holdings, Housing, California, California Government

Yesterday | via Miami Herald 

Sales and home prices inch up in Southern Calif. Similar stories: Sales and home prices inch up in Southern Calif.

Related Topix: Housing, California, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

9 min ago | via UPI 

Two Southern California banks stung by mortgage defaults have been closed by federal regulators and their assets assumed by others, officials said.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Pasadena, CA

10 min ago | via San Diego Union-Tribune 

Foreclosure sales have been canceled at an increasing rate as loan modifications take hold, according to ForeclosureRadar, a Stockton-area data company that monitors California's distressed housing market.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, San Diego County, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

13 min ago | via AdelaideNow... 

BORROWERS saw interest rates rise on almost 200 home loan products in the first week of December, with the average standard variable home loan rate growing to six per cent, a financial comparison website says.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group

21 min ago | via MyFoxAtlanta 

Regulators on Friday shut down two big California banks, as well as banks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Illinois, bringing to 140 the number of U.S. banks brought down this year by the weak economy and mounting loan defaults.

Related Topix: The Regulators, Country, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Construction, Banking, Financial Services, Pasadena, CA

21 min ago | via Myrtle Beach Online 

The compensation package for Rockwell Automation Inc.'s top executive fell more than 28 percent during the 2009 fiscal year after the industrial automation equipment company was battered by the deep recession, according to a company regulatory filing Friday.

Related Topix: Food, Hormel Foods Corporation, Construction, Horton D R, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Home, Mortgage, Jacobs Engineering Group