Texas

Despite an especially strong hurricane season last year, the national mortgage delinquency rate fell on an annual basis, signaling a healthier economy, according to CoreLogic.

Dallas-area home prices grew slightly faster than the nationwide rate in the latest comparison by CoreLogic.

A Texas lawyer pleaded guilty to his role in an elaborate $5 million mortgage fraud scheme involving pricey beach homes, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston.

There is a minimal risk of another housing bubble developing in Southern California, even as there is just a slim chance area home prices will fall in the next two years.

Businesses are investing more, people are finding jobs, and inflation is picking up, meaning higher interest rates for homebuyers.

More than half of Dallas-area neighborhoods saw a decline in home purchases in early 2018 after years of rising sales.

The Austin area's home sales and median home sales price both hit record highs for the month of March, bringing the region's housing market to a strong close for the first quarter.

March's increase in foreclosure starts was a direct result of the end of the moratorium for borrowers affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Black Knight said.

However, mortgage growth and servicing income weren't the only reasons profits rose by double digits at the Dallas bank.

Dallas-Fort Worth homes was one of the fastest-selling home markets in the country last year.

Foreclosure timelines that rose notably each quarter during the past year fell back to 2016 levels during the first quarter of 2018.

Houses are taking longer to sell and sales across the region fell last month for the first time since Hurricane Harvey, a new housing report shows.

North Texas homebuilders ramped up for the spring and summer housing market with an increase in first quarter starts.

Local delinquencies that rose in Hurricane Harvey's wake are lower than they were right after the storm, but they are still higher than they were a year ago.

There was a modest decline in hurricane-related delinquent mortgages in February, a sign that there are lingering problems in the affected markets.

First-time home buyers won't catch a break from the Dallas-area's hot home market this spring.

Quicken Loans affiliate Amrock Inc. is appealing a jury verdict ordering it to pay $706.2 million to analytics company HouseCanary in a legal dispute over a software licensing agreement.

Residential mortgage originations fell 19% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2017, due primarily to a large drop in refinance volume, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Forget about the millennials. North Texas homebuilders are betting that boomers will be among the biggest buyers of new houses in the next few years.

Houston-area homebuyers face a tightening supply of homes just as the busy Spring home-buying season is about to hit.