Mortgage rates

The South Florida housing market is experiencing its highest overvaluation in eight years. Still, a housing crisis is unlikely, one expert said.

The rise in late and suspended payments following the coronavirus outbreak in the United States may have helped the FHA realize it's high time to improve the process.

Property owners are taking a wait-and-see approach, possibly because of economic uncertainty.

After steep declines in April and May, North Texas home sales rebounded in June. Area real estate agents sold 16% more single-family homes than in June of 2019.

The current refinancing boom might seem like the worst time to buy leads, but for some, it may be the best.

Mortgage rates continued their slide, with the conforming 30-year fixed at its closest point ever to breaching the 3% mark, according to Freddie Mac.

While very low inventory prevented a full market recovery, pricier home listings only trail year-ago totals by 9.2%, according to Zillow.

Booming refinancing is expected to more than offset the tighter underwriting in second-quarter mortgage results.

The $38.7 billion of equity withdrawn during the period was down 8% from the fourth quarter.

Homebuyers in metro Denver made up for lost time in June, closing on 5,581 homes and condos and putting another 7,676 under contract, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.

While the new employment numbers bode well for housing and loan performance in the short term, concerns abound regarding how the unemployment rate and furloughs could affect prospects for the business later.

Mortgage rates reached their lowest level this week since Freddie Mac began its Primary Mortgage Market Survey in 1971, but they might not have yet gotten to their floor.

As the country wrestles economic volatility, millennial homeownership demand rises, fueled by historically low mortgage rates.

Home prices rose in April despite record unemployment and widespread shut downs, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index.

San Diego home prices continued to increase into COVID-19's second month and grew at a quicker pace than other California cities.

Despite a statewide stay-at-home order, massive job losses and an uncertain economic outlook, home prices in the Seattle area zoomed up faster in April than any large metro in the country save Phoenix.

From Southern California to the Great Lakes, here's a look at 12 housing markets with the biggest annual declines in pending sales, according to CoreLogic.

Contract signings to purchase previously owned homes surged in May by the most on record as mortgage rates fell and some states began to reopen from coronavirus lockdowns.

Sales of homes for May were down in Butler County and the Greater Cincinnati area, a trend that was anticipated due to the Ohio stay-at-home order.

But the coronavirus put a hold on the market in April and remains an overhanging cloud for the future.