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Loan applications to purchase newly constructed homes during October rose by nearly one-third year-over-year as sales reached their highest annual pace since the Mortgage Bankers Association started tracking this data.

New-home construction rose in October as single-family starts registered the strongest pace since the beginning of the year.

Elizabeth Warren called out Blackstone Group Inc. for its real estate practices as she laid out her tenants' rights plan, accusing the company of "shamelessly" profiting from the 2008 housing crisis.

Orange County's Housing For All task force has unveiled a 10-year plan to add tens of thousands of new homes and establish for the first time a local funding source that could pump $160 million into fighting Orlando's affordable housing crisis.

Newport Beach needs to approve 4,800 new housing units over the next decade.

Stephen Calk, who faces a bribery charge in connection with loans his bank made to former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, is asking a judge to suppress evidence that prosecutors obtained from his mobile phone.

1st Alliance Lending is officially closing, but its CEO still plans to fight Connecticut's allegations that it used unlicensed personnel to take mortgage loan applications.

Home sales in Hong Kong plunged over the weekend as increasingly violent protests shut down parts of the city.

With economic expansion expected to keep churning through at least the first half of next year, Fannie Mae upwardly revised its single-family mortgage origination outlook for 2019 and 2020.

The 2015 decision posed new legal challenges for institutions trying to sell loans to third parties, but the federal regulatory agency proposed steps Monday for banks and debt parties to evade state interest rate caps.