The agent allegedly offered a Glendale home to a family displaced by the Eaton Fire for more than 50% above the listed rent.
County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger, who both saw swaths of their districts decimated by fire, asked county ...
A real estate agent in La Cañada is the first person to be charged with price gouging after the Los Angeles fires.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed new price-gouging charges against a real estate agent accused of trying to ...
On Jan. 7, after California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County, rent hikes of more than 10 ...
Blueground US Inc. illegally jacked up rents for furnished apartments in Los Angeles — more than 50% in one example — after ...
The realtor denied the accusation, and said the home was rented to a family affected by the wildfires at a lower price.
Rob Bonta charged a La Cañada Flintridge real ... released a report last month that found 1,300 instances of price gouging on Zillow in the first week and a half after the fires started.
While L.A. city officials have floated tripling that penalty to $30,000, county leaders want to take it even further. Not ...
Gavin Newsom, which protects fire victims from price gouging and limits price increases of things like rent, and other essential goods, to no more than 10% following a natural disaster, state Attorney ...
Some landlords are hiking prices beyond the 10% the law allows. Some listings have increased thousands of dollars a month.