Texas

With extreme winter weather about to give way to ballooning insurance and mortgage forbearance claims in Texas, servicers will need to get through their pipelines with urgency while weeding out fraud.

Mortgage companies are working to forge links with homeowners’ insurers to avoid delays that could compound damage to customer service and properties.

First Foundation is relocating its corporate headquarters to Dallas, where the tax burden is lighter and it sees more opportunity to beef up lending, add wealth management clients and pursue acquisitions of community banks.

For the 10th straight year, annual home sales in Central Texas and the median price of those sales surpassed the year-before totals, with 2020's records coming despite the global coronavirus pandemic.

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, San Antonio's housing market is booming.

The homeownership rate in Texas just hit an all-time high of 70%, according to the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.

The coronavirus pandemic has made for a rough year for a number of industries in Central Texas, but the home construction sector hasn't been one of them.

Expected to make landfall as a Category 2 storm, Hurricane Delta's surge is estimated to cause damage to 293,685 residential properties across Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, according to CoreLogic.

Each state has a different set of laws that governs electronic notarization, and companies have varying interpretations, which can lead to delayed closings.

Sales of new homes climbed in Houston and other large Texas markets in August, with September shaping up to be another strong month for sales for the homebuilding industry.

As the summer home-selling season came to a close, median sale prices — both across Central Texas and within the Austin city limits — reached all-time highs in August, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

The North Texas housing market continued to thumb its nose at the pandemic in August, with home sales up 11% from a year ago.

High-end home sales fueled the market in August while inventory fell to its lowest level in five years, culminating in one of the busiest summers ever for Houston housing.

America's real estate meccas aren't what they used to be as COVID-19 revives U.S. mobility.

If it makes landfall as a Category 3 storm as was initially projected, damage from Hurricane Laura's surge could potentially devastate 432,810 residential properties in Texas and Louisiana, according to CoreLogic.

After seemingly falling off a cliff in April and May amid the cornavirus pandemic, Central Texas home sales have bounced back in a big way.

Houston-area new-home sales volume and prices continued on an upward track in July for the second straight month as mortgage rates fell to historic lows.

Mortgage delinquency rates in May were even higher in some Texas markets.

A Dallas developer has admitted to paying bribes to a former city councilwoman in exchange for her lobbying efforts and votes to provide $650,000 in taxpayer money for his Fair Park apartment project.

U.S. home purchases by foreign buyers have dropped to the lowest point in more than a decade.