According to MDA Data Quick, homeowners in San Diego County defaulted on their highest monthly rate in more than a year in February.

The 10-Year Treasury rate spent another week suspended in a very tight range after making the leap to its new level last week.The market kept a close eye on equities and auctions but by the end of the week it was clear that there was just very little action to move the market in one direction of another.

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THe averge rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 4.97 percent this week, down from an average of 5.01 percent last week.

As noted by CNBC.com, The Federal Reserve has decided to hold interest rates at a record low while the US Economy Recovers.

The Wofford family of Encinitas, California, got their house from the Extreme Makeover Home Edition show five years ago, but now claim that after struggling for two years to pay their bills, they're facing foreclosure

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared Friday that the U.S. economy is on the verge of a long-awaited recovery after enduring a brutal recession and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Foreclosure filings were up 32 percent from the same month last year, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday. More than 360,000 households, or one in every 355 homes, received a foreclosure- related notice, such as a notice of default or trustee's sale.

Solana Beach was awarded the Sierra Club of San Diego's Cool Cities Honorable Mention Award at the June 24 City Council meeting. Members of the Solana Beach Clean and Green Committee were also present.

Despite a judge’s ruling Monday, which ordered the city of San Diego to start dispersing La Jolla’s harbor seal colony within 72 hours, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hours later approved a bill that representatives from the mayor and city attorney’s office said would nullify the judge’s order saving the colony.

According to news released by the closely watched Standard & Poor’s/ Case Shiller index. “San Diego home prices continue to fall, but the pace of their descent is slowing”

After four difficult years of a housing recession, the market is clearly healing. Sales rose, inventories fell, and home prices declined less sharply than before. The 3 straight months of sales increases and the rise across all four major regions of country suggest a sustainable recovery ahead.

Getting Mortgage lenders to lower payments for troubled homeowners has become easier under Obama's plan, the task is still a long and complicated slog.

DEL MAR, CA- The county's smallest city wants to buy the San Diego County Fairgournds.

The residents of the U.S. almost doubled from 1950 to 2000 but with that increase our water demands more than tripled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The government expects that there will be water deficiencies in 36 states by the year 2013. That’s unacceptable news to homeowners who love their green lawns and think that they add significance to their homes. The good news is that a yard can still look beautiful and yet use less water to preserve its attractiveness.

Homebuyers’ appetite for foreclosure-discounted land has been high recently, causing transactions to increase and some analysts are beginning to talk about a potential bottoming of home prices.

Violent crime and property crime rates in San Diego County hit a 25-year low in 2008

Mortgage rates lower than today's 5 percent range? Smaller down payments? Below-market value pricing? Special amenity packages? Or a big tax credit?

NEW YORK – The price of money for American consumers went on sale in a spectacular way Tuesday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to their lowest level on record and promised to keep them low for a long time.

In a grim real estate market where homebuilders and sellers across the nation are offering incentives from Harley Davidson motorcycles to wide-screen TVs, a Hawaii couple is upping the ante by offering a $100,000 bounty to anyone who can locate a buyer or two.

San Diego's housing market shows little sign of hitting bottom, with the widely watched Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index for September showing prices down a record 26.3 percent from a year earlier. Price declines in other markets also showed no sign of slowing, with home values in the 20 largest U.S. cities down 17.4 percent, according to Case-Shiller data released yesterday.

A Carlsbad construction firm has completed a $3.5 million retrofit at the Encinitas Civic Center to improve its energy efficiency.

CARLSBAD: Airport's new terminal building opens for business Construction work to continue for two more months

“These changes will allow VA to assist a substantial number of veterans with subprime mortgages refinance into a safer, more affordable, VA-guaranteed loan,” Secretary of Veterans Affairs James B. Peake said in a prepared statement. “Veterans in financial distress due to high-rate subprime mortgages are potentially the greatest beneficiaries

Citigroup becomes latest big bank to adopt measures to keep at-risk borrowers in their homes

Highlights Foreclosures: Impose a 90-day stay for owner- occupied homes on which a notice of default has been filed. Loan modifications: Exempt lenders from the 90- day stay if they have an “aggressive” program to ease mortgage terms for distressed homeowners. New loans: Implement various steps to prevent lenders from making unsustainable loans in the future.

LA JOLLA, Calif. UC San Diego is ranked by Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine in the top 10 among the best values for public colleges and universities in the United States, it was announced Friday

Existing-home sales increased last month as buyers responded to improved housing affordability conditions, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

According to Connie Lewis of the San Diego Business Journal the La Jolla luxusious oceanfront mansion of Doug Manchster could possibly be up for sale.

In a unanimous vote Oct. 21, the San Diego City Council cleared a long-term plan to grow the nonprofit La Jolla based Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

“I'm working really hard on Proposition A, and probably most of you haven't heard of it,” Sanders told the La Jolla Professional Men's Society. That statement highlights one of the bigger hurdles facing the Nov. 4 ballot measure that would impose a $52 parcel tax on most of the county's landowners.

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