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The good news for Oahu homeowners is they likely will be able to get more for their houses if they were to sell them. The bad news is they'll likely see their property taxes go up next year.

Tampa Bay has seen two booms in house flipping — one in the mid 2000s, when prices appeared on a steadily upward trajectory and again from 2011 to 2014, when the market was flooded with cheap foreclosures.

Sonoma County's fire-ravaged housing market last month posted the most sales for November in 13 years, even as the median price rose slightly to a new record high.

PHH Mortgage was the first mortgage servicer to be fined by the New York Department of Financial Services for failing to maintain a "zombie" property.

The council is exploring legislation to collect around $492 million in delinquent real estate taxes that could aid the city’s school district.

The tech boom that Mayor Ed Lee embraced ensured that the man who began his career fighting for poor tenants ended up presiding over a city known for some of the nation's most unaffordable housing and pervasive homelessness.

It was like a scene from the pre-oil-bust housing boom: A steady stream of prospective buyers trekked through an open house last Saturday in a family neighborhood in northwest Houston. Their cars were parked up and down the block.

The risk to Canada's financial system from tapped-out borrowers is merely shifting — this time to a market where there's no oversight from the country's national bank regulator and new stress-test rules don't apply.

A former UBS Group AG senior strategist for commercial mortgage-backed securities developed suicidal thoughts and felt like a "pariah" in the industry after his 2012 firing and later lawsuit against the Swiss bank, a psychiatrist told a jury.

A Milwaukee landlord who continued to buy foreclosed properties at auction after being sanctioned, must pay $64,550 in municipal court fines that he has been effectively dodging as far back as 2009, a Wisconsin Court of Appeals judge ordered.

The company will pay $186 million for First Bank Lubbock in a deal that also includes mortgage unit PrimeWest Mortgage.

November sales of existing homes rose more than 5% in metro Milwaukee, even amid a continuing shortage of houses on the market.

Two months after the October wildfires leveled more than 3,000 homes in Santa Rosa, Calif., "For Sale" signs are popping on vacant lots in Coffey Park and other fire-ravaged neighborhoods

Home sales in metro Toledo, Ohio, in November rose 2% over the same month a year ago, but home sale prices fell, according to a report released by the Toledo Regional Association of Realtors.

Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin has charged a Milton, Mass., man with using a fraudulent house-flipping scheme to convince friends and investors to lend him money that he then used on restaurants, hotels and groceries.

Baltimore-area home sales and prices continued to climb in November as the inventory of available homes sunk to a 10-year low.

Early-stage mortgage delinquencies had their largest year-over-year gain during September in over eight years, a direct result of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Spokane, Wash., home sales continued at a strong pace in November, with the market benefiting from mild temperatures and the lack of significant snowfall.

As mall owners around the world seek a defense against Amazon.com, Europe's largest commercial landlord is betting the solution lies across the Atlantic.

The company has agreed to buy the operations of Veterans Mortgage in Salt Lake City.