Months after many eager homeowners started gearing up to refinance their mortgages, interest rates for Bay Area-size mortgages are finally falling. Vote: Will you refi? | Search local real estate transactions

Sacramento County supervisors, on a 4-1 vote Wednesday, gave new life to a controversial plan to build a four-year college and housing on more than 2,000 acres of undeveloped land east of Rancho Cordova.

Vote/comment: When will market improve? | Local home sales, more Just 750 existing detached houses were sold in November, down about 42 percent from November 2006, according to DataQuick Information Systems. That's the fewest sales for any month since February 1995.

Vote/comment: When will market improve? | Local home sales, more Home sales plunged 36.2 percent last month in nine counties around San Francisco Bay, marking the biggest annual drop for November in the past 20 years, a real estate tracking firm said Thursday.