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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims to be a man of the people by continuing to live in the first house he ever owned, but he just bought, and is now set to demolish and redevelop, the four surrounding homes to his liking.

The Bay Area’s traditionally black neighborhoods are slowly becoming white. First it was San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point, and now Oakland is losing some of its longtime black residents.

Tim and Eva Jisser started a mobile home park in Palo Alto, California, in 1986. Now the family wants to move on, but the city told them they must pay $8 million to do so.

Robert De Niro’s plans for an exclusive Caribbean beachfront resort are meeting stiff opposition from local citizens and lawmakers.

A $50,000 driveway for sale in San Francisco’s Light District is highlighting the exorbitant heights of the city’s real estate market.

Credit Suisse claims that China’s middle class is now the biggest in the world, growing much faster than America’s, but the reason for this situation is less obvious than one would think.

An analyst and writer, who has appeared on Fox News as an unpaid guest analyst since 2004, has been arrested in part for fraudulently claiming that he worked for the CIA.

While it may lack the size and luxuries of Aaron Spelling’s famed 56,000 sq. ft. mansion, actress Emily Blunt’s former residence is now up for rent on the lodging website Airbnb, and it is giving renters a chance to see how well America has treated the British-born leading lady.

Police in southeast San Francisco are investigating a string of anti-Chinese spray-painted taggings, which were discovered this past weekend, as both acts of vandalism and hate crimes.

China is teetering on the edge of a 1929-style stock market meltdown, and Greece might be about to exit the Euro. China is worried about what the Grexit, or an even larger collapse of the Euro, might do to its house-of-cards stock market. Everybody else is worried about what a Chinese collapse could do to their markets, especially since Western socialists have sold so much of their own nations to China over the years.

Residents of the affluent Los Angeles neighborhoods of Beverly Hills and Bel Air, including actress Jennifer Aniston, are speaking out against the construction of sprawling mega homes in their once-quiet communities.

In 2015, Trump: The Game very much still exists– in thrift shops and eBay listings nationwide. Your authors were fortunate enough to snatch up some copies and play, and discover the buried lead about Trump: The Game that everyone reviewing it has missed: it is incredibly fun.

S&P data showed that the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) real estate market is red hot: home prices jumped 9.3 percent, twice the national average of 4.1 percent. Only San Francisco at 10.3 percent and Denver, at 10 percent, rose higher.

Our tax and regulatory systems should be prudently administered to protect property rights and the free, honest flow of commerce. Instead, we’re subjected to value judgments and accusations of bad faith from politicians who refuse to entertain such criticism of themselves.

Two Texas cities — Austin and Houston — are among the top ten metropolitan areas in the United States that had the highest percentage increases in rental prices last year. San Francisco and San Jose, California were ranked first and second, both with median rent prices of over $3,000 per month. Austin was ranked sixth and Houston eighth.

China’s Shanghai futures market crashed by the maximum 10 percent, and trading was suspended on January 19th, while Shanghai Composite Index fell by 7.7 percent. Both events were the worst day of trading since shortly after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy launched the financial crisis six years ago.

High housing costs across the Golden State are causing hundreds of thousands of low and middle-income workers to pack up and leave for other states.