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Housing starts fall 16.5% in April, but building permits jump

2013-05-16 07:39:00

WASHINGTON --� Housing starts dropped 16.5% in April to the lowest level since November, but permits for future construction rose to a nearly five-year high, providing mixed signals for the red-hot real estate market. Construction on privately owned...

Home builders struggling to find enough construction workers

2013-05-08 00:00:00

The real estate bust idled hundreds of thousands of construction workers. Now, with housing on the mend, builders are hiring again. Trouble is, many workers aren't coming back. Years of sporadic employment drove many from the industry. Incomes aren'...

After a long fall, Antelope Valley is back on upswing

2013-04-20 08:00:00

In the brutal cycles of California real estate, the Antelope Valley has been among the last to boom, the first to bust and the slowest to recover. But in the High Desert, separated from downtown Los Angeles by 65 miles and a mountain range, the...

Stop dissing the humanities

2013-04-19 00:00:00

If any line item in the state or federal budgets cries out for more resources, or even just a little more respect, it's the arts and humanities. Never mind that many writers, artists and scholars have the fresh ideas that our times so desperately need....

Housing starts jump dramatically in March; building permits fall

2013-04-16 06:45:00

New residential construction rose significantly in March as builders started more multi-unit dwellings. Housing starts rose 7% from upwardly revised February figures to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,036,000, the Commerce Department said...

L.A. and other hot housing markets are getting frothy, report says

2013-04-12 11:14:00

Home prices are rising faster than incomes in Los Angeles, making it more prone to a new housing bubble than many other major cities, a real estate report indicates.� Rising home prices and strong demand are making the market feel particularly bubbly in...

Teen summer employment expected to rebound, job firm says

2013-04-11 11:01:00

After facing several years of stiff competition from recent college graduates and other displaced workers, teenagers are expected to find more summer job openings as retailers expand hiring, according to�outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc....

Home builder Taylor Morrison sees stock rise during IPO

2013-04-10 11:37:00

Taylor Morrison Home Corp. is riding high so far in its Wall Street debut as the newly public home builder benefits from an improved housing market and a renewed appetite for building. Shares of the Arizona firm rose $1.05 from its initial public...

Groups sue to block Wal-Mart grocery from opening in Chinatown

2013-04-04 12:11:00

Foes of a planned Wal-Mart grocery store in Chinatown filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city of Los Angeles seeking to bar the chain market from opening. The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance L.A., working with the Southeast Asian Community...

Truck sales get a lift from housing rebound

2013-04-02 16:55:00

Surging truck sales paved the way for one of the biggest auto sales months in nearly six years. That's a sign of the housing rebound making its way into new construction, as contractors buy new pickups. Growth in the vital housing and auto industries...

U.S. is a loser in business group's March Madness-style tax bracket

2013-03-20 06:51:00

WASHINGTON -- If the world's major economies had a competition like the NCAA basketball tournament, the U.S. would enter as the No. 1 seed -- but a leading business group said the nation's corporate tax policies would get it bounced in the first round....

Housing starts, building permits climb in February

2013-03-19 07:15:00

New residential construction increased in February, while builders look to put up more homes in the near future to meet rising demand for housing--a positive trend for the broader economic recovery. Housing starts jumped 0.8% from revised January...

National homebuilders are reporting on a great first quarter. In the Chicago area, housing starts rose 37 percent.

2013-05-03 15:48:00

Dream home of Jamila Ward and her fiance, Lionel Jennings.

2013-03-18 00:00:00

The front exterior of the two-story custom cottage that is the dream home of Debbie and John Burk.

2013-03-12 00:00:00