CHICAGO, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Online rentals category leader, Apartments.com, today launched the Southern California Wildfires Resource Center within its site to help the estimated 500,000 homeless and displaced citizens in Southern California. The Resource Center provides valuable information to help individuals locate rental information or other wildfire relief resources quickly and easily.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- GMAC ResCap will offer mortgage relief counseling, and other assistance to about 330,000 GMAC Mortgage and Homecomings Financial customers that may be affected by the Southern California wildfires within the areas that have been declared federal disaster areas

SPRING VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of Covenant's Mount Miguel Village are doing well after spending another night at San Diego High School. They were evacuated from the Spring Valley campus late Monday night, but are receiving excellent care and attention from Covenant staff and volunteers including doctors and nurses who were on-hand.

Real estate professionals, including some local ones, are pushing the federal government to declare California a "high-cost" state to ease the home foreclosure crisis that has hit the Vallejo area especially hard.

PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Home sales declined by 30 percent in the Bay Area, year-over-year, across all housing types, according to a third quarter report released today by the research division of Prudential California Realty based on an analysis of MLS data.

CALABASAS, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Countrywide Financial Corporation (NYSE: CFC) today announced a comprehensive home preservation program to reach out to borrowers at-risk of default.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Among the top 10 metro areas with the largest number of foreclosure filings are six California cities. Merced topped the list followed by Modesto, Stockton, Riverside-San Bernardino, Vallejo-Fairfield, and Sacramento.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- First American LoanPerformance, a member of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies and a leader in residential mortgage data and analytics for the mortgage industry and Wall Street, today announced the release of its August 2007 LoanPerformance Home Price Index (HPI)

House puts in place legislation to set up next wave of foreclosures; tax break on forgiven debt could incent mid-tier homeowners to flee without fear

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the national real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, conducted an inventory closeout auction of Paseo West, a community of one- and two-story single-family homes ranging up to 3,310 square feet in Manteca, Calif.

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- RealtyTrac(TM), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Orange County, a ranking of the fastest-growing technology companies in the area.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning today, homebuyers in Southern California are eligible to receive up to 250,000 airline miles on their next new construction home purchase. Incentive Real Estate, Inc., a licensed California real estate brokerage, is providing the unique reward to anyone who purchases a home from one of Incentive's select homebuilder partners in the region.

Internet's fastest-growing real estate search engine provides listings, data and community features to help consumers make better real estate decisions

BREA, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether a Top Producer or a Rookie, realtors across the country use thousands of business cards every year, which can be very costly. One office product company is offering a new business card alternative that not only saves time and money, but lets agents turn their cards into a marketing tool.

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- National Disclosure Authority (NDA), an independent hazard disclosure company, founded by the most experienced disclosure experts in the industry, announced today that Keller Williams Realty Westside, a leading Los Angeles real estate brokerage firm, has chosen to name NDA as one of their preferred providers.

PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Charles R. Wilson & Associates Inc., a leading valuation and consulting firm based in Pasadena, has become part of Integra Realty Resources, the largest national commercial real estate valuation and consulting firm in the U.S. The name of the new office is Integra Realty Resources-Metro.

Foreclosure Crisis Hits Hardest in Minority Communities - Research Shows 40 Percent of All Loans to Latinos are High Cost Loans

RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Other participating agencies may include U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service, United States Secret Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.

RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Other participating agencies may include U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service, United States Secret Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- This weekend, Sacramento-based homebuilder Tim Lewis Communities is opening Amberleigh at Madeira, a new community of energy-efficient, solar-powered homes in Elk Grove, Calif. The planned 61 homes will feature building-integrated solar-electric power systems from SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWR), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency, commercially available solar cells, solar panels and solar systems.