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Home sales in November tumbled by 11.9% compared to last November, and sales over the first 11 months of 2019 are down 2.3% compared to the same period last year.

Tom Lopp abruptly suspended a program that accounted for 83% of Sterling Bancorp's mortgage production this year. An ongoing audit of the program and pressure to diversify beyond mortgages are reasons to watch Lopp and Sterling in 2020.

Bay Area real estate has long been hailed for its sizzling hot prices, tear-downs and bidding wars, but a new report shows that what goes up does tend to come down eventually.

Single-family homes in Maine sold for more this November than last year, reflecting a national trend for higher home prices.

A trade group is looking into why New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo felt foreclosure risks were too high to sign a bill that would have approved reverse mortgages for cooperative properties.

In 2009, there was hardly a block in the Tampa Bay area that didn't have at least one house in foreclosure.

The Bay Area home market remained sluggish in November, as buyers searched for cheaper homes and sales slowed entering the holiday season.

Houston secured the top spot in the new-home sales market in Texas as builders sold 1,481 new homes in the area in November.

Palm Beach County's housing market continues to confound the lofty expectations created by robust job growth and rock-bottom interest rates.

The deadline for China Oceanwide to complete its acquisition of Genworth Financial was extended for a 13th time, following completion of the sale of Genworth MI Canada to Brookfield Business Partners.

No matter who's doing the talking, Colorado Springs' red-hot housing market is expected to continue to sizzle next year, and possibly beyond.

The owner of the MacArthur Center Mall in Norfolk, Va., has defaulted on a $750 million loan which includes the property as collateral.

The mayor of Taylor, Mich., was indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations of bribery related to the sale of tax-foreclosed properties

Pending new home sales increased both on a month-to-month and annual basis, benefitting from the current low mortgage rate environment, although they are still constrained by inventory issues, a Meyers Research report said.

The United Kingdom’s legal separation of retail deposit-taking from risker activities prevents banks from transferring domestic earnings internally, and the trapped capital has become the catalyst for a mortgage price war.

Downtown San Jose, which has been overshadowed by its Bay Area neighbors, is having a real estate development boom because it qualifies as an opportunity zone

HomeTrust Bancshares in Asheville, N.C., sold a portfolio of residential mortgages as part of a balance sheet restructuring, with plans to sell more.

Metro Atlanta home prices continued their climb in November as sellers continued to hold the advantage in negotiations.

Although the housing market in the Twin Cities metro posted only modest gains during November, house prices rose to a new high.

Mortgage rates ended the week unchanged from the previous seven-day period, according to Freddie Mac, although not without some gyrations from the results of the elections in the United Kingdom and U.S-China trade talks.