Home prices

The creation of new houses in Rochester, Minn., is on the decline.

Millennials — now more than ever — dictate the direction the housing market is moving in, and with the deceleration of starter home prices, more should become homeowners soon, according to CoreLogic.

Home prices have more than recovered since the recession, but higher-than-ever medical and student debt is robbing many homeowners from realizing the benefits, while keeping others away from the market, according to Zillow.

Realtors and community leaders are hailing a new milestone for the Rockford, Ill., area housing market.

As the affordable housing crisis comes to a head, the Mortgage Bankers Association put up opposition to the "not in my backyard" mindset by getting behind the Yes, In My Backyard bill introduced in the House of Representatives.

Prospective Bay Area home buyers abandoned the market in August, as home sales dipped to a nine-year, monthly low despite falling interest rates and more choices.

The three federal banking agencies moved to raise the threshold for residential transactions that require an appraisal from $250,000 to $400,000.

Neither boom nor bust, the Palm Beach County, Fla., housing market ended the summer selling season with a steady but unspectacular performance.

Economic uncertainty and high housing prices will put a damper on home sales next year, but low mortgage rates will offset that, pushing house prices to all-time highs in 2020, the California Association of Realtors forecast.

Rising home prices are likely to constrain affordability for some time to come, with only the current low mortgage interest rate environment softening the blow, Attom Data Solutions said.

Local and state home sales statistics paint a hot seller's market in New Mexico.

Southern California home sales slipped back into reverse in August after recording the first gain in a year the previous month.

It looks like lower mortgage rates are helping lure Americans who are buying the priciest properties.

Fueled by strong job growth and low mortgage rates, the metro Atlanta housing market last month recorded its biggest jump in home prices since January.

Sales of new homes rebounded at a faster pace than forecast in August as a decline in mortgage rates sparked demand for higher-priced properties.

Most South Florida median home prices continued their inexorable march upward in August, while the number of sales in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties declined year over year.

Home-price gains in 20 U.S. cities decelerated in July for a 16th straight month, as values proved still too elevated for buyers despite low mortgage rates.

Orange County, Calif., may be on the verge of seeing a gain in home sales for the first time in more than a year, new CoreLogic figures show.

Even in the midst of a climate crisis, the Bay Area's skyrocketing housing costs are pushing families into far-flung suburbs like Tracy.

Maine homes have sold at a near-record pace this year through the month of August.