Topic: California

Writers are known much more for their way with words than for their ability to put impressive roofs over their heads. Of course, there are many exceptions, and their names can be found on the bestseller lists.

A gated community situated between North Lake Tahoe and Truckee, Calif., counts among its members bigwigs from Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Google. Will such upscale communities become standard for the titans of Silicon Valley? The following slides single out one of the houses in the community that’s currently on the market.

Many jobs that let reserved types work in solitude offer poor salaries and unchallenging work. But there are other careers that are stimulating, well-paying and require little human contact. Read ahead to see some of the best jobs in the U.S. for loners.

The following is a list the most expensive of the sporting events that had the most expensive luxury box suites, from baseball to basketball to football and more.

Colleges and universities are pouring millions into renovating residence halls and freshening up cafeteria food. Administrators believe it can give them an edge in recruiting top students, while also improving the overall education by improving quality of life.

As baseball players are traded, bought, or signed as free agents, they leave behind homes and need new ones. Consequently real-estate markets from Boston to San Diego become  awash each spring in high-end homes for sale belonging to departing and arriving Yankees, Dodgers, and Braves.

Wonder no more about the homes seen in popular network television dramas and sitcoms, as well as reality homes you see on MTV and Oxygen.

The stereotype about professional athletes’ wives is that they’re gold-digging arm candy, with few accomplishments. What follows is a list of the wives of athletes who’ve made names for themselves as columnists, models, designers and more.

What is the deal with airport food? To find some of the most praised restaurants, TripAdvisor looked at the busiest U.S. airports and user-generated reviews to see which ones were rated the best by the general flying public.

The team at Top Ten Real Estate Deals has just compiled the annual list of the most luxurious golf homes on the market, so they dug up information on a few of the private estates of professional golfers. For the rest of this list, they sought out high-end properties located on award-winning golf courses across North America.  The resulting ten homes reflect styles from Antebellum to modern. They range from a reproduction of a 17^th century British palace to a couple of homes situated on the 18^th hole.

Some U.S. airports see more late or missed connections than others, depending on which airlines use them and where they’re located. Using data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, CNBC.com ranked the 10 airports with the worst records for on-time arrivals.

With home prices down more than a third from their peak and the market swamped with foreclosures, large investors are salivating at the opportunity to buy perhaps thousands of homes at deep discounts and fill them with tenants. The New York Times reports.

An improving jobs outlook in Northern California, continued low mortgage rates and the ongoing influx of new residents into the Golden State provide support to a healing housing market.

State governments wait hopefully to collect the taxes on the Mega Millions jackpot, which would give a boost to struggling states.

Not all states are created equal. Some have average credit scores that indicate a rebounding economy, and others have credit scores that indicate decline. Read ahead to see which states have the best credit scores in the country.