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The average price for a Spokane, Wash.-area home rose to $256,000 in January, as low numbers of properties for sale continued to put pressure on prices.

The pickings are still pretty slim for homebuyers in the Buffalo-Niagara area, but that may be starting to change.

HomeStreet Bank will attempt to sell its stand-alone mortgage business and portfolio of servicing rights, a move that comes amid growing pressure from an activist investor to exit home lending and concerns about declining demand and regulatory challenges.

Home sales fell for the third straight month in January, as buyers closed on 362 fewer homes than they did last year at the same time, according to the Houston Association of Realtors.

The year-over-year median home sale price dropped in January for the first time since February 2012 in metro Portland, according to new numbers from the Regional Multiple Listing Service.

Amazon.com Inc.'s decision to drop its expansion plans in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens plunged local real estate brokers into despair — just months after the euphoria that followed the company's announcement that it would open offices there and bring thousands of jobs.

Listings in Washington, D.C., fell 20% in January from a year earlier, marking a third straight month of double-digit declines, according to Zillow.

Amazon.com Inc. said it's pulling out of a plan to build a headquarters in New York City, after a backlash from some residents and politicians.

In another sign that the Bay Area housing market is cooling, the number of homes for sale here has spiked — signaling more options for buyers, and potentially lower prices.

Columbus home prices rose 5.1% in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared with the previous year, above the national average of 4%, but below almost all other Ohio metropolitan areas.

Charlotte's housing market got off to a slow start in 2019, and some experts say that the government shutdown is partially to blame.

Home prices in the greater New Orleans region were on the rise at the end of 2018, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Ocwen Financial Corp. now alleges that Fidelity Information Services misled California officials about its ability to conduct the audit at the heart of litigation.

Economic growth in the Rockford, Ill., region helped the housing market reach sales milestones in 2018 not seen in more than a decade.

A year after forming, the Erie County, Pa., land bank is compiling a list of blighted, tax-delinquent properties outside the city that need to be demolished or rehabilitated.

Homebuilders in the Twin Cities are off to a running start this year, but topping 2018 won't be easy.

If the government insists on forcing another shutdown, business owners are intent on letting Congress know how much the last one hurt.

The market for new homes in Houston is expected to be flat for the next couple of years amid a tight supply of lots, a local housing analyst said.

The rising cost of housing in the Bay Area has dramatically resegregated neighborhoods by race and pushed minority families to the outer edges of the region, a new paper shows.

A lawsuit alleging Wells Fargo improperly compensated its California-based mortgage loan officers could have broader ramifications now that it has been granted class certification.