Texas

The percentage of Americans behind in their mortgage payments is at a 20-year low. And even fewer Dallas-area homeowners are late with payments than the national average, according to CoreLogic.

Lower mortgage rates sent Dallas-Fort Worth homebuyers to the closing table in record numbers in July.

The Central Texas housing market appears to be on track to set records this year for home sales and prices, an economist said.

While strong housing demand continues in Central Texas, new numbers show the area's homebuilding pace slowed in the second quarter as builders grappled with a shortage of lots.

With more houses on the market, fewer North Texas home sellers getting their original asking price.

After a jump in May home sales, North Texas housing activity retreated in June.

The value of construction projects started in the greater Houston area fell sharply across both the residential and nonresidential sectors in May, according to a new Dodge Data & Analytics report.

Pending home sales fell sharply in May, a sign that buyers may have a bit more bargaining power this summer in the Metroplex.

Investors last year purchased a record share of Dallas-area homes and these for-profit homebuyers are expected to continue to gobble up thousands of houses in North Texas and nationwide.

Because automated valuation models have not been subjected to a stressed housing market, their increased use holds negatives and positives for residential mortgage-backed securities credit quality, a Moody's report said.

May was a record-setting month for the housing market both in the city of Austin and Central Texas as a whole, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

New-home sales in the Houston area rose for the fourth straight month in May, but the market could be tightening as the number of pending sales continued to decline, a new report showed.

The Houston housing market logged another solid month in May as buyers closed on 8,346 homes, up 2.8% from a year ago, new data shows.

North Texas home sales gave their best showing of the year in May.

The rise in home prices in North Texas has pushed home foreclosure rates to some of the lowest levels ever recorded.

The price of a new home in Houston rose slightly in April, while the number of pending new-home sales dropped in Houston and other large Texas metros.

Single-family home sales across the Houston area were up 7.8% in April, the third straight monthly increase and the biggest gain so far this year, according to the Houston Association of Realtors.

Dallas-Fort Worth is still the country's top homebuilding market.

Lubbock, Texas, recently ranked in the top 100 cities where owning a home is the most affordable.

With strong housing demand continuing in Central Texas, new home starts increased almost 7% in the first quarter compared to the first three months of last year, according to new industry data.