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OAKLAND — The state Department of Industrial Relations filed a $17 million lawsuit Monday against Emeryville-based ZipRealty, claiming the firm has failed to properly compensate its employees since at least 2006. The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, is based on three class-action lawsuits filed against ZipRealty and complaints waged by four employees working [...]

The Japanese prime minister, Naoto Kan, introduced his resignation on Friday amid wide-spread criticism of his dealing with of the aftermath of the 11 March tsunami along with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant. But uncertainty grew over the identification of Japans next leader the countrys seventh in 6 many years after [...]

Are homebuyers walking away in droves from the contracts they’ve signed? Or are they essentially fouling out of the game, unable to close deals because of financing and credit issues? Whatever the answer, this much appears to be certain: Exceptionally large numbers of signed real estate contracts fell apart last month, failing to reach settlement. [...]

Singer Katy Perry and comic actor Russell Brand have bought a Sunset Strip-area compound from former National Lampoon Chief Executive Daniel Laikin for $6.5 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows. Perry and Brand are selling their Los Feliz compound, a $3,395,000 listing that was on the market in May for just nine days before entering [...]

email Realtor associations generally have websites that are, to be polite, not very good. It’s like they are stuck in the early 1990s. My own association, the Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors (SAAR) fell squarely at the peak of the bell curve of association websites. Fell, as in past tense. B Find more info…