Minnesota

Mortgage interest rates dropped this week to the lowest level on record, fueling an already hot spring housing market and triggering a refinance boom in the Twin Cities.

The Twin Cities have become one of the most competitive housing markets in the country and there's no relief likely during the upcoming peak buying season.

A deepening imbalance between entry-level buyers and sellers is creating stiff competition, and multiple offers for more than list price aren't unusual.

Forget about Edina, Arden Hills and other coveted communities. A flight to affordability is upending the housing market in the Twin Cities.

Ramsey County, Minn. officials agreed to sell Wesely Pettiford's house back to his family, but obtaining financing to make badly needed repairs has been difficult.

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

Entry-level home buyers outnumbered sellers in the Twin Cities metro in October, boosting prices and stifling sales of houses priced at less than $300,000.

It's the season when estimated property tax bills for 2020 show up in the mail, and the numbers could be eye-opening for some Minnesota homeowners.

Homebuilders in the Twin Cities had their busiest October in nearly two decades.

Many home sellers in the Twin Cities are feeling a fall chill.

The creation of new houses in Rochester, Minn., is on the decline.

The housing market in the Twin Cities metro last month was a little less intense than it was last year at this time, with demand for the least-expensive houses still outpacing more expensive ones.

It was the most robust August in at least five years for Twin Cities homebuilders.

Home price gains in the Twin Cities metro have outpaced the national average for much of the year, but those gains have cooled in recent months.

A healthy gain in home sales in the Twin Cities metro last month helped push prices to a new high.

There's a silver lining to the recent economic turbulence: Mortgage rates have tumbled in recent weeks, triggering a rush to refinance and a race to the closing table for many Twin Citians.

Increasingly, it's becoming a tale of two housing markets in the Twin Cities.

Rising prices and a shortage of starter homes hobbled home sales in the Twin Cities last month.

It's been a dreary spring for many homebuilders in the Twin Cities.

A shortage of starter houses is choking home sales in the Twin Cities, making it a less-than-stellar spring for first-time home buyers in the Twin Cities.