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Voters in Upland will decide next year whether to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in their city. The city council voted 3-2 to include the ballot measure – which would allow three dispensaries to operate in the northwest part of the city – on next year’s general election ballot, according to …

More good housing news: foreclosures fell dramatically across the country during the first month of this year. The national foreclosure inventory dropped 33.2 percent year-over-year in January while completed foreclosures fell 22.5 percent during that time, according to data released Tuesday by CoreLogic in Irvine. Forty three thousand foreclosures were …

By Ed Hoffman In 1988, militant rap group Public Enemy released a song with this title – and over the next 27 years, “don’t believe the hype” would join the ranks of other phrases that transcend pop culture to be applicable in all kinds of discussions. Why would I bother …

Cash sales made up 35.5 percent of all home sales in December, down three percentage points compared with the previous year. That marked 24 consecutive months of year-over-year declines in cash sales, according CoreLogic, which issued its monthly report on cash transactions in the U.S. housing market Monday. Cash purchases …

A grocery store chain in the Pacific Northwest will open 83 stores in California in locations that are occupied by Albertsons or Vons. Haggen, based in Bellingham, Wash., bought 146 of 168 stores that both chains were ordered to sell as the result of a merger agreement that was reached …

Sales are down over the last six months, and no one seems to know why. Lack of inventory is one possible explanation, along with high prices, but jobs and income are both growing. So why aren’t more people buying houses? Has Southern California’s housing recovery ground to a halt? That …