Fancy grocer Erewhon will return to Pacific Palisades in an entirely rebuilt store, as the neighborhood’s luxury mall, owned by developer Rick Caruso, undergoes renovations for a reopening…
Read more Erewhon and others shut by fire set to reopen in Pacific Palisades mallLos Angeles landlords may soon be required to keep rental units cool — or at least make it possible for tenants to do so. County supervisors last month…
Read more In face of extreme heat, L.A. may require landlords to keep their rentals coolWASHINGTON — With two conservatives in dissent, the Supreme Court on Monday turned down a property-rights claim from Los Angeles landlords who say they lost millions from unpaid rent during…
Read more Supreme Court turns down claim from L.A. landlords over COVID evictions banTinder co-founder Justin Mateen has invested in Hollywood with the $69-million purchase of retail property near the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. In a bet on…
Read more Tinder co-founder buys Walk of Fame property in HollywoodInvitation Homes, the nation’s largest single-family landlord, has agreed to pay $48 million to settle a handful of allegations, including that it illegally charged undisclosed junk fees, withheld…
Read more Single-family landlord Invitation Homes misled consumers over cost of a home, the FTC allegesThe days of needing to save two to three months’ worth of rent for a security deposit are largely over in California. Legislation took effect Monday that limits…
Read more Californians won’t pay more than one month’s rent for security deposits under new lawImagine the first morning you wake up inside your new house in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. An AI robot rolls in to deliver you breakfast…
Read more A house under $500,000 in the Bay Area? The catch is there’s a tenant until 2053Alexa Castelvecchi was glad when she and her roommates found their new apartment about a year ago, in a modern building in Hollywood with a big, sleek kitchen…
Read more In L.A., thousands of newer apartments have rent caps. Tenants don’t always know.Nearly a year ago, every tenant at the massive Westside apartment complex Barrington Plaza was served with an eviction notice by their landlord, who said the residents of…
Read more Is the eviction of hundreds of renters from Barrington Plaza legal? A court case to decide is now underway.Arnel Management Co. has agreed to settle allegations it illegally withheld security deposits, the California attorney general announced Friday. The move came nearly eight years after a Times…
Read more Landlord Arnel Management illegally withheld security deposits, attorney general allegesAt a time when office landlords are struggling to attract and keep tenants, a Hollywood real estate developer is forging ahead with plans for a visually arresting high-rise…
Read more Office tower planned for Hollywood gets new design and billion-dollar price tagIn the hierarchy of commercial real estate, office space has long been king. Developers and landlords lived by the conventional wisdom that there was no better use for…
Read more A sign of the times: Tearing down an emptying O.C. office complex to build a warehouseRenting in Los Angeles is about to become more difficult for many people. The last of Los Angeles’ pandemic-era renter protections expired Feb. 1. For the first time…
Read more Opinion: Renting in L.A. could go from bad to worseCalifornia Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta on Wednesday announced new consumer tools for tenants and landlords to understand how much rent can rise each year under a state rent…
Read more How much can your rent go up in California? Check this websiteAs soon as the floodwaters subside in Southern California, many tenants will start the daunting task of assessing what’s been damaged or lost in their rental homes or…
Read more Is your rental home flooded? What tenants can do to fix the damageMost renter protection programs launched during the pandemic in Los Angeles have expired, and tenants who couldn’t pay rent due to economic hardships brought on by the COVID-19…
Read more What L.A. renters should know now that COVID tenant protections are goneAfter a lengthy discussion, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to prohibit the eviction of tenants whose rental assistance applications have been approved but who have not…
Read more L.A. City Council votes to protect tenants while they await rental assistanceIn 2022, not long after a new owner bought the Highland Park rental home where Ana Lopez, 66, lives with her husband, the tenants began receiving offers to…
Read more Would you take cash to leave a rent-controlled apartment? Data show it happens often in L.A.Landlords across the country have been empowered to act as a kind of police force in the name of crime prevention for decades. How? Through local “nuisance property”…
Read more Opinion: California just banned 'crime-free' housing. Here's why other states should tooIn 2021, four years after finishing her last jail term and living in transitional housing in Riverside County, Erica Smith was ready for a permanent home. She’d saved…
Read more New law has Californians with criminal records 'quite hopeful' they'll finally find housing
