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Rising interest rates are holding back existing homeowners from listing their properties, driving the gap between existing and potential sales even as that disparity narrows, First American Financial said.

Subprime originations are climbing in multiple consumer loan categories, including mortgages, but the increase is much smaller in the home loan sector than it is in other markets, according to TransUnion.

Confidence among homebuilders plummeted by the most since 2014 as the highest borrowing costs in eight years restrain demand, adding to signs of a cooling housing market that will weigh on the Federal Reserve's debate over how far to raise interest rates.

The end of one-party rule in Washington could move the needle on efforts to devise a new housing finance framework.

Challenges will likely increase as interest rates rise and investors grow more concerned about a downward turn in the economic cycle.

Bank jumbo mortgage underwriting standards weakened in the third quarter by the most in three years and as profitability remains under pressure, loosening should continue at an accelerated pace, a Moody's report said.

Borrowers buying new homes produced fewer loan applications than they did a year earlier due to October's rising interest rates.

The Buffalo Niagara housing market remain strong during October, but there are signs that it's cooled a bit since its sizzling days this summer.

Now that Akron, Ohio, has named the buyer, the estimated $20 million redevelopment of the CitiCenter Building joins a glut of downtown projects competing for private funding, public tax breaks and future tenants.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Nov. 16.