The agent allegedly offered a Glendale home to a family displaced by the Eaton Fire for more than 50% above the listed rent. She denies the allegations.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed new price-gouging charges against a real estate agent accused of trying to rent a Glendale home for more than 50% above the property’s listed rent after fires destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles.

A real estate agent in La Cañada is the first person to be charged with price gouging after the Los Angeles fires.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced charges against a La Cañada Flintridge real estate agent for allegedly raising the price of his rental by 38% after L.A.'s wildfires.

Attorney General Rob Bonta said he would go after alleged rent gougers, and this week his office filed its first case. The agent strongly denies breaking the law.

During a state of emergency, most landlords can only raise rents by 10%. Members of the LA Tenants Union have compiled a spreadsheet of well over 1,000 listings they say exceed the 10% threshold. Irani said for her, it was a way to help fire victims.

Tenant advocacy groups, landlord associations and elected officials are condemning rent gouging after tens of thousands of people were displaced in deadly fires this month.

Some landlords are hiking prices beyond the 10% the law allows. Some listings have increased thousands of dollars a month.

Here’s what “The Rent Brigade” found after combing through 1,343 Zillow posts that appear to have broken California’s ban on post-fire price gouging.

A new study by a tenant advocacy group shows a major increase in rent prices across the Los Angeles area during Southern California’s recent wildfires despite laws preventing price gouging

As wildfires leave residents displaced across the city, some landlords are raising rents beyond legal limits, forcing evacuees into an increasingly unforgiving housing market.

A law barring monthly rents of more than $10,000 for new listings is stopping high-end homes from going on the market, real estate agents and brokers say. Such homes could be in demand for wealthy fire victims.