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After home prices soared due to a lack of inventory and a recovering economy, three-quarters of experts believe the shift to a buyer's housing market should come in two years.

Nearly half of July's millennial homebuyers were single, a sign that they are not waiting for certain milestones like marriage before deciding to become homeowners, according to Ellie Mae.

The Federal Housing Administration is providing a new waiver that gives mortgage companies the ability to start inspecting properties affected by Kilauea Volcano lava flows in Hawaii.

Mortgage applications decreased 0.1% from one week earlier, dropping for the seventh time in eight weeks even with scant movement in interest rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The median Bay Area home price fell from June to July but was still up double digits over last year, according to CoreLogic.

The pace of home construction in the San Antonio market has surged to its highest level since 2007, but it likely won't be enough to correct a woeful shortage of affordable homes.

Lennar Corp. closed its first fully electronic digital mortgage with a remote notary, just a few months after the homebuilder made an equity investment in digital mortgage vendor Notarize.

The average new home in the U.S. went for $324,467 in June, 28% more than the $254,200 price for existing homes.

Delinquencies for loans securing commercial mortgage-backed securities continued to decline, although they are still well above rates for other types of investors, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Growth in home prices remained churning at a steady pace, with sellers holding out for better returns and suppressing the supply of available housing.