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Movie and TV Production Up in Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita saw an 8 percent increase in the number of permits issued in 2014 for television and feature film production, the city announced on Monday. The city’s film office issued 502 permits used for 1,339 days of location filming, a ...
California seeking to suspend Ocwen Financial’s mortgage license
The state is seeking to suspend the mortgage license of Ocwen Financial Corp., saying the payment collection firm has failed to turn over documentation showing that it complies with California laws protecting homeowners. The action is the la...
Faery Hunt Today at Tarzana Community And Cultural Center
Date/Time Date(s) – 01/11/2015 10:30 am – 11:30 am Location Tarzana Community And Cultural Center 19130 Ventura Blvd. Tarzana, CA, $12.50 www.afaeryhunt.com Children, boys and girls, and the young-at-heart come join the fae...
Two Macy’s Closing at Westfield Promenade Woodland Hills
Two Macy’s stores will close at the Westfield Promenade mall in the spring as part a larger series of closures announced this week by the Cincinnati-based department store chain. The Woodland Hills shopping center at 6100 Topanga Canyon Bl...
FHA to lower mortgage insurance fees
President Obama said Wednesday that the Federal Housing Administration will lower its high fees for mortgage insurance, a bid to encourage more purchases by first-time and middle-income home buyers. The agency will drop its annual premiums o...
Many buyers no longer see marriage as prerequisite to a mortgage
In more than two decades as a real estate agent, Marc Tahler has seen his client base of would-be buyers shift. He used to see a lot of younger couples, married, maybe with a kid in tow or one on the way. Lately, though, his buyers are tr...
Is 2015 the year to sell your house?
Home price gains are slowing, credit is thawing and more first-time buyers may be hitting the real estate market in 2015. Better balance in the housing sector is “in” next year, as far as trends go. That’s likely to put buyers and sell...
Senate action gives tax relief to short-sellers this year, not next
For David Foster of Chicago, it was a stunning and welcome early Christmas present for him, his wife and three young children. The Senate’s 11th-hour extension of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act through Dec. 31 will save Foster, w...