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A new city program approved by the Chicago City Council will offer vacant lots to affordable housing developers for $1 each.

The elimination of private activity bonds “would throw gasoline on a housing shortage," said John Chiang, California's treasurer.

Marco Laureti owned several real estate and mortgage businesses, a real estate license, a mortgage broker's license and a house on San Marino.

As the economy improves and millennials move around the country in search of jobs, some are finding themselves far from the youth culture they learned to expect from city life in other parts of the country.

The treatment of local property taxes and the mortgage interest deduction in the House Republicans' tax plan would cause homeowners in high-cost states like California to incur much higher tax bills.

The numbers tantalize leery minds: Housing prices, population growth and job creation in Southern Nevada all rebounded from the Great Recession over the past few years.

Here's a look at the 12 housing markets with the largest percentages of mortgages over $500,000 — the new threshold House Republicans have proposed for the mortgage interest deduction in their tax plan.

Distressed home sales in the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla., metropolitan area during the third quarter accounted for 11% of the residential real estate market.

Oahu's housing market stayed on track to set a sixth consecutive price record as the latest tally of home sales showed slight gains for prices in October.

An emerging group of local entrepreneurs is taking up arms against the sky-high cost of living in the Bay Area, hoping to end once and for all the housing crisis crippling the region.

Capital Corps, led by Steven Sugarman, aims to provide financing to homeowners and small businesses that it believes are overlooked by banks. The firm features several former Banc of California executives.

Three real estate investors illegally pushed down prices in Palm Beach County, Fla., foreclosure auctions, federal prosecutors say.

Renita Barbee has begun packing up the belongings in her rented South Los Angeles home. She was trying hard to hold her composure as she told her story the other day.

Central Texas new-home construction surged to an 11-year high in the third quarter, the latest numbers show.

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.

The Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio was supposed to be buzzing with construction workers and equipment by now — after sitting vacant for decades.

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.

As is the case with most communities across Western New York, Lockport has its share of "zombie" properties.

Connecticut was the lone state in the nation in September to see a decline in borrowers misrepresenting facts on mortgage loan applications.