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Southern California house prices continued rising in September, although gains remain the smallest since the housing recovery began in the spring of 2012, new data shows.

Taylor Morrison Home Corp. has agreed to buy William Lyon Homes in a deal that would combine the two companies' in-house mortgage divisions and make the resulting entity the fifth-largest U.S. homebuilder.

Tighter mortgage regulations are making Canada's housing market less risky, according to the government agency responsible for its oversight.

It was activity at the upper end of the housing market that helped to keep mortgage application volume level with the previous week, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The price for a home in Southern Nevada didn't move much in October, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

For months now, the question in metro Denver's real estate market has been where have the buyers gone. But in October, a whole bunch of sellers went missing in action as well.

From the Tennessee-Kentucky border through coastal North Carolina, here are the 15 metro areas where millennial VA purchase-loan activity increased the most over the past fiscal year.

The housing bond measure, the largest of its kind in San Francisco's history, comes as the ballooning wage inequality has sent the city's homeless population skyrocketing 17% over the last two years.

Toronto's housing market continued to bounce higher in October, with prices rising the most in almost two years amid dwindling supply.