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Coinbase files with SEC to bring leveraged stock bets to US
Coinbase Global Inc. is taking the first regulatory step toward letting U.S. investors make leveraged, round-the-clock bets on stocks without owning them, seeking to bring one of crypto’s most popular forms of trading onshore.
The push is part of a broader effort to bring the crypto trading playbook onshore just as digital-asset venues are ...Read more
Think your HOA is strict? Meet the rules of Indian Creek's Billionaire Bunker
In Indian Creek Village, money can buy you a $100 million mansion, a sprawling waterfront compound and a front-row seat to one of the most exclusive enclaves in South Florida.
But you still have to follow the rules created when the village first incorporated in 1939.
Welcome to Billionaire Bunker, where some of the world’s richest people ...Read more
Real estate Q&A: Can my mortgage company hold money from insurance check for home repair?
Q: A storm damaged our roof, and we filed a claim. The insurance company finally sent the check, but it is made out to our mortgage company and us, and now the mortgage company says it will hold the money and release it as the work gets done. We are current on our loan and just want to pay our roofer and be done with it. Can they really do this?...Read more
Is this the worst time to buy a house in California? Why timing really is everything
Home seekers around Southern California were feeling profound sticker shock.
Median prices had hit records never seen before.
First-time buyers were desperately slapping down-payments on modest ranch homes in far-flung desert communities, enduring long commutes just to escape the rental market.
“We were lucky,” said one new homeowner who ...Read more
Developers buy 900-plus acres for Las Vegas' biggest new community in years
The developers of Las Vegas’ biggest new community in years have closed their purchase of the site, giving them 900-plus acres with plans for thousands of homes.
Olympia Companies and Bruin Capital Partners teamed up to acquire roughly 940 acres in the upper northwest Las Vegas Valley for $94 million, Olympia executive vice president Chris ...Read more
WA tenants dread rental fees. Could an end be in sight?
When Aleks Posielski received a lease renewal offer from his landlord in May, he was taken aback by an unexpected charge.
Posielski would have to pay an $85 “lease renewal fee,” if he committed within 10 days, even though his lease wasn’t up for six months.
Otherwise, the lease renewal fee would start to increase every 10 additional days...Read more
One of the world's longest housing booms is cracking in Sydney
For the past three decades, buying a home in Sydney has been the surest bet in Australia. Rising prices have enriched families and made property the engine of household wealth. Now the boom is under threat, and the consequences are rippling across the financial system.
Home values are sliding as borrowing costs rise and buyers react to the ...Read more
WA real estate service settles with Compass in transparency fight
A fierce fight over transparency in the local real estate industry appears to have reached a truce.
The primary repository for home listings across Western Washington, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, has settled with the brokerage Compass and loosened its stance on semiprivate home listings.
Compass touted the settlement Monday, saying...Read more
Study: How much income is considered middle-class in the Bay Area?
A new study looks at how much annual household income it takes to be considered middle-class in the most expensive cities in the U.S. Not surprisingly, Bay Area cities took up eight spots in the list of the 10 most expensive cities with a population over 100,000, compiled by MoneyLion, a mobile banking company.
The most affluent city on the ...Read more
Homeowners in Black neighborhoods are paying more for insurance. Pittsburgh offers a troubling example
Lyft driver Elwin Green knew exactly what he was paying to insure his home in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood.
What he didn’t know was that his homeowners insurance bill was more than twice what the average homeowner in some of Allegheny County’s wealthiest communities are paying.
Green, 74, pays Allstate $3,875 a year to insure his 2,...Read more
Cities turn to AI to speed housing permitting
New housing projects can sometimes stall out as a developer applies to city or county planning boards and goes through cycles of inspections, reviews and approvals.
Now, cities are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to address one of the most persistent sources of housing permitting delays: incomplete applications. And two new ...Read more
Starter home prices have more than doubled in Las Vegas in 10 years, report says
Starter home prices in the Las Vegas Valley have more than doubled in the past decade, according to a new report from Zillow.
The latest numbers from the online real estate marketplace paint a bleak picture for potential first-time homebuyers, as the price of a starter home in the valley sits at $312,141 in July, down 3.2 percent from the same ...Read more
Real estate Q&A: Under 'as-is' contract, is buyer responsible for water damage seller hid?
Q: We bought our first house two months ago and signed an “as-is” contract. After the first heavy rain, water poured in around a bedroom window. When we pulled up the new laminate, we found the subfloor was already rotted and had been painted over. The sellers must have known. Do we have any recourse, or did we give that up when we agreed to...Read more
California bill targets abandoned funds. When can state seize your forgotten stocks?
SACRAMENTO, California — Proposed legislation to streamline California's ability to seize abandoned stocks and mutual funds is drawing opposition from business groups and dividing Democratic lawmakers.
State Controller Malia Cohen sponsored Assembly Bill 1447, which seeks to define the process for California to take custody of securities when...Read more
Want a lower credit card interest rate? Just ask
If you have a credit card, you have a relationship with your card issuer. Your card issuer values that relationship and wants to keep it. There are many types of offers your issuer can make to ensure you stay (and don’t default on your debt), but it won’t advertise them — since they don’t exactly make the banks more money. It’s like a ...Read more
Mark Zuckerberg buys an Irish castle
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's latest home purchase appears fit for a billionaire who runs the world's largest social media empire.
Zuckerberg, who is married to Dr. Priscilla Chan and has three children, bought the Strancally Castle in Waterford, Ireland, a spokesman for the tech executive confirmed Friday.
"Mark and his family look ...Read more
US housing affordability gauge worsens for first time since 2023
A key measure of U.S. housing affordability worsened for the first time in almost three years, as higher borrowing costs soaked up a bigger chunk of earnings for new homebuyers.
Monthly payments on a median-priced $410,700 home accounted for 34% of a typical family’s income in the second quarter of this year, according to data published ...Read more
Real estate Q&A: Should I consider getting a reverse mortgage?
Q: I am 71 and retired. My house is paid off, but money is tight every month, and I keep seeing ads for reverse mortgages. My son says they are a scam, and that the bank will end up owning my home. Is that true, or is this something I should actually consider? — Patricia
A: A reverse mortgage is not a scam, nor is it a miracle. Like any loan,...Read more
Seattle area doesn't have 'enough family-sized units to go around'
A Seattle renter’s search is always a struggle — some alchemy of budget constraints, need for space and tolerance for the grueling process of scouring listings. For families with children, that search can be even harder.
Fewer than half of available rentals in the Seattle area have two or more bedrooms, the smallest share among major metro ...Read more
How to save $2,000 a month in Los Angeles: Rent
Some Los Angeles-area renters may feel a secret shame of not owning their homes, but maybe they should be bragging. Right now, renting is a much better deal.
People in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area looking to get into a smaller home on average would save more than $2,000 a month by renting rather than buying, according to...Read more
Popular Stories
- Is this the worst time to buy a house in California? Why timing really is everything
- WA tenants dread rental fees. Could an end be in sight?
- Developers buy 900-plus acres for Las Vegas' biggest new community in years
- One of the world's longest housing booms is cracking in Sydney
- Real estate Q&A: Can my mortgage company hold money from insurance check for home repair?






