Despite the slow real estate market and no shortage of 'for sale' signs, competition is surprisingly fierce for houses owned by banks.

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Southern California home prices plummeted 24 percent in March, jerking property values to a nearly four-year low amid the real estate market's deepening distress.

Newly released data shows the median price of Southern California homes plunged 24 percent during March in the latest sign of the real estate market's deepening distress.

If you tried to engineer a real estate market to give the advantage to first-time buyers, the result would look a lot like the market we have now.

Despite the slow real estate market, millions of people are hiring movers, packing boxes, loading up the truck and getting on with their lives.

In the Bay Area's stratospheric real estate market, the deal is pretty enticing: For a starting bid of $100, you can buy a creek-side lot in the Santa Cruz Mountains near a reservoir where locals like to boat, fish and picnic with their families.

As foreclosures continue to grow in the capital-area real estate market, Sacramento and Elk Grove are copying a trend launched last year in Stockton: bus tours of bank-owned homes.

Foreclosure rates in San Benito County have skyrocketed from last year. With four foreclosures this week and an additional 13 letters of default sent out to homeowners, it would seem to indicate trouble for the real estate market.

California's growing Latino population has been hit especially hard by the meltdown in the real estate market and many now are paying the price for purchasing homes with subprime mortgages that should never have been approved.

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