Home prices

Experts don't see a way for Bloomington's current infrastructure to provide the kind of housing middle-income residents need.

Private mortgage insurance was the largest source of credit enhancement for new homeowners in the second quarter making a low down payment for the first time ever, according to Genworth Mortgage Insurance.

A decade after a collapse in the housing market triggered the 2008 Great Recession, South Florida still has many homeowners who owe far more money than their property is worth.

Connecticut closed out the spring home buying market on a positive, with both sales and prices rising in July, a new report showed.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose in June at the slowest monthly pace in almost two years, as demand cools in the face of affordability constraints including elevated mortgage rates.

Sales of single-family homes in Maine showed strong gains in both their prices and the number sold in July, according to data by Maine Listings.

More Charlotte home listings saw price cuts in June than a year earlier, indicating that Charlotte’s housing market is shifting "ever-so-slightly in favor of buyers," a Zillow report says.

The Congressional Budget Office has found that restructuring the mortgage market would save the government billions of dollars but may increase the cost of housing.

The typical Portland-area home is out of reach for a median-wage family, new home-sale figures show.

In New Mexico, total home sales rose 32% year-over-year for a total of 18,274 homes sold across the state. The median price increased 5.5% to $200,000.

Home sales climbed back up in central Ohio and throughout the state in July, despite dropping nationally to the lowest level in more than two years.

Home prices climbed 6.5% in the second quarter from a year earlier, a slower pace that adds to signs of a cooldown in the market.

Almost $50 billion. That's how much Spokane County, Wash., is worth, according to this year's property assessments, up $4.1 billion over last year.

Colorado Springs home prices rose at one of the fastest clips in the nation during the second quarter, according to the National Association of Realtors.

After four straight months in which four out of 10 home buyers in Santa Cruz County, Calif., paid in excess of $1 million, more buyers in July closed deals in the less expensive areas of the county and the median price dipped from $927,500 to $885,000.

The market for vacation homes at Hawaii resorts rebounded last year to its highest level of sales in nearly a decade, according to a recent report.

While home sales are down across New York City during the second quarter of 2018, Staten Island is bucking this trend with an uptick in both sales and prices.

An improved economy, a healthy labor market and the large population of millennials should have accelerated home sales much higher, but all hope for more transactions this year is not yet lost, according to the NAR.

It's happening in larger, pricier housing markets: Buyers are starting to get fatigued, indicated by modest drops in existing home sales, mostly in competitive Western states like California and Washington.

Home prices are rising again in New Orleans after taking a dip last year, giving a boost to property owners but also likely intensifying the city's shortage of affordable housing.