Origination

The council is exploring legislation to collect around $492 million in delinquent real estate taxes that could aid the city’s school district.

The median down payment for single-family homes purchased with financing has reached a new high in the third quarter, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The tech boom that Mayor Ed Lee embraced ensured that the man who began his career fighting for poor tenants ended up presiding over a city known for some of the nation's most unaffordable housing and pervasive homelessness.

It was like a scene from the pre-oil-bust housing boom: A steady stream of prospective buyers trekked through an open house last Saturday in a family neighborhood in northwest Houston. Their cars were parked up and down the block.

The mortgage market had already priced the Federal Open Market Committee's 25-basis-point hike into its rates so there was little change, according to Freddie Mac.

A $300 million, interest-only first mortgage that the REIT obtained from Wells Fargo this month is being used as collateral for a transaction called WFCM 2017-SMP.

The Southern California wildfires are causing additional inventory shortages in what is already a tight housing market, Redfin said.

The Obama administration had tried to ease restrictions on the Federal Housing Administration's condominium program, but the agency under President Trump is seen as moving more aggressively.

The share of new refinance mortgage applications reached its highest point since January, but overall activity fell compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Supply constraints tempered real estate and title professionals' outlook for the home purchase market over the next year, according to First American Financial Corp.'s fourth quarter Real Estate Sentiment Index.