Apartments

Airbnb rentals ruled illegal in New York City

2013-05-21 13:04:00

A judge has ruled that Airbnb, the popular online service that allows homeowners and apartment dwellers to offer their residences as temporary rentals, is illegal in New York City. The decision from the city’s Environmental Control Board found...

Apartment rents keep on rising in Los Angeles County

2013-05-01 15:40:00

Apartment vacancies plunged in Hollywood during the last 12 months and rents increased as the neighborhood continued to rebound from the recession. But vacancies were still more plentiful in the Santa Clarita Valley, where former renters bought low-priced...

San Gabriel council deems itself judge over election results

2013-04-27 20:45:00

San Gabriel Councilman-elect Chin Ho Liao was the second highest vote-getter in the city's March elections, but his first time on the council dais last week was as a witness under cross-examination. The City Council voted not to seat Liao after resident...

Downtown L.A. landlord Brookfield is bullish on office market

2013-04-26 18:29:00

The head of the firm that wants to buy some of downtown Los Angeles' biggest skyscrapers is bullish about its long-stagnant office market. "We like the direction the market is heading and think it will be improving quarter over quarter." Dennis...

Former Desmond's downtown warehouse to become creative offices

2013-03-28 05:30:00

A showplace of the early automotive age in downtown Los Angeles a century ago is set to be revived by new owners who have ambitious plans to turn it into offices, a restaurant and a nightclub near L.A. Live. Long vacant, the stocky five-story building at...

California lawmakers OK bill that bars requiring online rental payments

2012-08-21 14:53:50

Affordable travel tips from the experts

2012-09-02 00:00:00

We long for travel, but we long even more deeply for affordable travel. To that end, we asked industry experts to weigh in on budget travel: from getting there to eating there to staying there to choosing where to go. Amy Chen, online editor, Frommers....

Can spouse move back into jointly leased unit despite divorce?

2012-03-18 00:00:00

Question: My sister and her husband recently decided to end their marriage. He moved out of their apartment, which they had rented under a one-year lease, and filed for divorce. A few months later, he told my sister he couldn't afford his new place. He...

Mosaic Apartments to open in L.A.'s Pico Union district

2011-12-06 21:35:03

Stalled Hollywood condo project reborn as luxury rentals

2011-12-11 16:34:29

Susan Spano's homecoming: Life unpacked, at long last

2011-12-13 16:34:12

Curiosity for Rent: '80s Pop in Koreatown

2011-12-14 16:34:12

Photographer Renee Jacobs of Los Angeles, who has made five trips to Paris in the last six months to work on a book, pays as little as $130 a night to stay there. She uses online rental agencies to find apartments. "The one I loved the most was 85 or 90 euros per night," she said.

2011-08-03 16:20:26

Renter Susan Batchelor and her daughter have been living in their rehabbed apartments at the 800 block of E. Preston Street since Feburary. Ten rental apartment units were rehabbed as the first phase of the redevelopment of the 800 block of E. Preston street by Mi Casa Inc., a D.C.

2011-06-17 20:55:14

The scene where a 9-year-old suburban Philadelphia girl whose body was found around midnight Monday in a trash container outside the apartment complex where she lived.

2011-05-09 21:00:00