Jeff Collins

Residents can apply for cash starting June 12 to make three months of loan payments on homes lost in the LA wildfires and other recent disasters.

At $820,000, the region’s median home price remains near all-time highs. But March sales were the third-lowest on record.

Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, Huntington Beach, Laguna Hills, Chino Hills and Rancho Cucamonga.

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Insurance providers could charge policyholders a “supplemental fee” if the state’s insurer of last resort runs out of money.

“There are a lot of well-to-do people who are going to be looking for rental property now, and landlords know that,” says USC professor Adam Rose.

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