Elina Tarkazikis

Growth in home prices continued wearing down affordability at the start of the season, preventing first-time buyers from entering the housing market.

From Washington to Baltimore, here's a look at the 12 best housing markets for homebuyer purchasing power, where median house values and mortgage rates are more favorable.

The 55+ housing market showed continued strength in the first quarter on healthier economic conditions, but high lumber prices are causing hurdles for homebuilders trying to keep up with consumer demand.

Housing markets with the strictest land-use regulations saw home price appreciation shoot up by more than double the rate of those with lighter regulations, despite similar job growth, according to Zillow.

An increase in millennials making home purchases is a call to the mortgage industry for a quicker, more efficient digital process.

CoreLogic has updated its Risk Quantification and Engineering tool amid California wildfires to include U.S. Wildfire and U.S. Severe Convective Storm models to support the mortgage and insurance industries in better assessing natural disaster risk.

Homebuilding industry leaders are pledging to train more laborers as part of an executive order from President Trump, marking an important step forward for the residential construction sector.

International activity in the U.S. real estate market plummeted as foreign homebuyers are competing with domestic purchasers for a limited supply of homes, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Tight home supply remains a top challenge for house shoppers, but the slowing pace in which inventory is declining could signal more favorable conditions for homebuyers.

As regulators move forward with policy changes designed to curb so-called refinance churning of Department of Veterans Affairs-insured mortgages, concerns have surfaced about the fate of loans originated during the transition period.

As the mortgage industry continues evolving digitally, MISMO is developing standards for business-to-consumer transactions on mobile devices, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

As purchase mortgages continue to dominate overall industry volume, lenders aren't letting the extra work required to close these loans affect their productivity.

As property values continue appreciating, Caliber Home Loans added a jumbo loan product to its portfolio lending suite to support borrower needs in a climate of higher home prices.

From Cleveland to Pittsburgh, here's a look at 12 markets offering favorable costs for housing, helping turn renters into potential homebuyers by quickly saving for a down payment.

Foreclosure filings plummeted in the first half of the year, but 40% of local markets saw foreclosure starts increase, with the last housing bubble no longer to blame for the growth, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The average millennial borrower credit score remained unchanged in May, but values by city painted very different pictures, according to Ellie Mae.

Healthier economic conditions, more effective underwriting methods and recovering hurricane-impacted states helped drive delinquency and foreclosure rates to their lowest level in over 10 years, according to CoreLogic.

Despite available home equity shooting up in the first quarter, the share of total equity withdrawn by borrowers hit a four-year low, likely due to an increase in interest rates, according to Black Knight.

While affordability remains a top challenge for homebuyers, rental costs are also soaring, which could bring even more house hunters to the market.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's practice of "regulation by enforcement" and use of nonbinding guidance materials makes its regulatory efforts "unfair and ineffective" to lenders and servicers, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.