Home buyers must meet deadlines, income limits and purchase price limits to qualify for tax credits. Now that the Feds have approved the extension and expansion of the first-time homebuyers tax credit, many homebuyers are wondering how this will affect their next home purchase. For first-time homeb...

Beverly Hills Properties was just hit with a $2.725 million dollar fine from the U.S. Department of Justice for housing discrimination. According to an article from the California Association of Realtors, a lawsuit brought in August of 2006 claimed Donald T. Sterling and others engaged in discrimant...

As of November 6, 2009 an encouraging 40% of available listings in the beautiful wine country town of Sonoma are in escrow. For the month of October 2009 33 homes sold for an average final selling price of $465,276. The average original asking price of these homes was $523,709. The range of final se...

As of November 6, 2009 an encouraging 42% of available listings in Petaluma are in escrow. For the month of October 2009 6o homes sold in Petaluma for an average final selling price of $439,140. The average original asking price of these homes was $481,687. The range of final selling prices was from...