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Purchase-loan share held steady month-to-month for the first time this year, even though it is still above year-ago levels in line with a seasonal decline, but growth remains in the forecast.

Prospective buyers of Metro Orlando homes who sat on the sidelines in June might have scored a bit of a bargain in July as prices dropped 1.3% during the month.

Mortgage applications waned for the fifth week in row, hitting their lowest levels in six months, as the summer's growing interest rates plateaued.

Homes in the Toledo, Ohio, area continued to sell quickly as they have done now for two years.

Confidence among homebuilders fell to an 11-month low in August on rising construction costs and shortages of skilled labor, a National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo report showed.

There would be over six million more new homes built in the last decade if new construction remained at the same pace prior to the housing boom, according to Zillow.

As housing affordability continues eroding on growing property values and mortgage rates, nearly a quarter of millennials believe they need to delay having children to afford a home purchase.

The investors initially won the right to sue as a group in 2015 before an appeals court reversed the ruling; the $13 billion lawsuit can now proceed as a class action.

The number of consumers being pursued by debt-collection agencies fell dramatically in the past year, but it's as much technicality as achievement, and bankers need to keep that in mind when reviewing the credit scores of millions of Americans.

The percentage of low down payment loans using private mortgage insurance continues to grow, and should continue as more first-time homebuyers get conforming loans, according to Keefe Bruyette & Woods.