Home prices

With the end of the summer home buying season, consumers were less optimistic that it was a good time to purchase or sell a home in October.

As employment and home prices reach and surpass previous levels of normal economic and housing activity, building permits continued holding markets back from hitting historic norms during the third quarter, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

A House Republican tax proposal that infuriated housing groups and sent homebuilder stocks sliding would only have a modest impact on the market for new homes and could end up being a net positive for the industry, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts.

Denver's housing market continued to struggle with a frighteningly low number of homes and condos available for sale in October, which helped push up prices and cut into the pace of sales.

Seattle is now a full year into its reign as the hottest housing market in the country, an unusually long surge that doesn't look likely to end anytime soon.

San Diego had the third highest annual home price increase in the nation in August, a distinction not reached since 2014.

Home-price gains in 20 U.S. cities accelerated in August amid tight inventories and steady economic growth.

U.S. home prices hit another new peak in August after just reaching a new high the previous month, according to Black Knight.

As Bay Area sales dwindled, in a reflection of the region's shrinking home supply, buyers continued to bid up the region's notoriously high prices.

A major mortgage insurance company has lowered the threat level for Dallas-Fort Worth's housing market.

Home sales in greater Hartford rose for the fifth consecutive month, but prices fell the most of any month so far this year on year-over-year basis.

The 63,398 homes sold in the first nine months of this year in Wisconsin set a new record, but low inventory continues to vex buyers.

Strong growth in the sale of existing homes in Lake County in September was almost enough to pull the seven counties that make up the Greater Northwest Indiana Association of Realtors into positive territory for the month.

The CFPB's practice of "regulation by enforcement" forces mortgage companies to develop compliance standards based on the mistakes of their peers, rather than clear guidance from the enforcement agency, said David Motley, the new chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Home sale prices in Western New York hit new peaks over the summer, as the region's housing market continued to churn past historic records.

For the second year in a row, a North Texas city is being honored as the country's hottest housing market.

Maui condominium sales and prices surged in September as home buyers pursued more affordable housing options.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma affected new-home sales in Texas and Florida, resulting in a 7.5% year-over-year decline in mortgage applications to purchase these properties in September.

While the DFW home market is still good or even great compared to a lot of places around the nation, things have definitely cooled a bit from the last few years.

For buyers now house hunting in metro Toledo, Ohio, a word to the wise: Think very carefully about the offer you submit to a seller.