Newport Beach Real Estate News

Yesterday | via The San Diego Union-Tribune 

A 52-year-old Escondido woman has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for bank and tax fraud tied to an eight-year real estate scam, authorities said.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Newport Beach, CA

Yesterday | via Fortune 

FORTUNE Only a year after the U.S. housing market hit bottom, it may be bubbling up -- again.

Related Topix: Housing, Trulia, Startups, Texas

Tuesday May 14 | via TheStreet.com 

National home prices are still undervalued relative to their fundamental value, Trulia economist Jed Kolko noted in a blog post Tuesday, soothing concerns the market is heading into bubble territory.

Related Topix: Trulia, Startups, Housing, Orange County, CA, Business News

Monday May 13 | via Patch.com 

A woman who would be out of prison if she had followed through with a plea bargain offer from prosecutors, but fought for a jury trial instead, was sentenced today to 63 months behind bars for a $2.5 million tax fraud and money laundering scheme that included two Newport Beach properties.

Related Topix: Newport Beach, CA, Tax, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

Sunday May 12 | via Patch.com 

About this column: Chris Jotblad is a 33-year resident of South Orange County and an experienced Realtor® with Keller Williams Realty.

Related Topix: Laguna Niguel, CA, Orange County, CA, Real Estate, Housing

Thursday | via Housing Wire 

The California housing market continued to gain steam in April, with both home sales and prices experiencing strong increases due to high demand and tight inventory.

Related Topix: California, Housing, Real Estate

Thursday | via Mortgage News Daily 

The median price of homes in California topped $400,000 in April for the first time in five years.

Related Topix: Housing, California, Real Estate, Mortgage

Wednesday May 15 | via News10.net 

In April, Stockton became the fourth California city - and the nation's largest - to go into bankruptcy protection since the recession began five years ago.

Related Topix: California, California Government, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Housing, Orange, CA

Friday May 10 | via WKBT 

California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a lawsuit against JPMorgan on Thursday, alleging that the bank "engaged in fraudulent and unlawful debt-collection practices against tens of thousands of Californians." Harris says that from January 2008 to April 2011, JPMorgan filed more than 100,000 lawsuits against consumers in the state over ... (more)

Related Topix: California, California Government, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Wednesday | via Monterey County Herald 

The Bay Area housing market's median sales price crossed the $500,000 mark for the first time in nearly five years in April, according to a report Wednesday.

Related Topix: Housing, California

8 hrs ago | via JD Supra 

The Federal Reserves guidance is significant because it applies to all regulated bank servicing, rather than specific consent orders.

Related Topix: Foreclosures

Yesterday | via Albany Times Union 

The fight over the Capital Region Multiple Listing Service , the real estate sales database that is the lifeblood of the local real estate industry, could be over by next month.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Schenectady, NY, Colonie, NY, Albany, NY, Saratoga Springs, NY

11 min ago | via Ananova 

The outgoing governor of the Bank of England has warned that George Osborne's plan to boost the housing market is "too close for comfort" to the US mortgage guarantee schemes that triggered the financial crisis.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

51 min ago | via Alabama Live 

Enjoy the WiRE compliments of the ACRE Corporate Cabinet. Click link in article to see the corporations that are building Alabama's real estate multimedia network.

Related Topix: Alabama, Real Estate

1 hr ago | via Hays Daily News 

Robert Readle , Hays, has accepted a position of loan officer at First Assured Mortgage, 1702 Vine.

Related Topix: Hays, KS, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Commerce Bancshares, Financial Services, Kansas City, KS