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Dallas-Fort Worth home sales and construction totals are expected to rise only modestly in 2020, but the expected increases could still be enough to push area home numbers to new highs.

Southern California house prices jumped 7.5% in the 12 months ending in November, the biggest gain in the state, according to the California Association of Realtors.

London bore the brunt of heightened political uncertainty in October, with house prices posting their biggest monthly decline for more than eight years.

With housing projected to grow hand-in-hand with the economy, Fannie Mae boosted its single-family mortgage origination outlook for 2019, 2020 and 2021.

November was another month in the latter part of 2019 where actual existing-home sales outperformed their potential, but that momentum seems unlikely to continue in 2020, First American said.

Finance of America Reverse has launched a revolving credit line product that allows borrowing power to increase over time by allowing 75% of funds to grow for future use.

A judge dismissed New York's mortgage-fraud case against former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, undermining the state's effort to ensure that the jailed political adviser doesn't go free if he’s eventually pardoned for his federal crimes.

Canadian home sales picked up in November as a rebound in Toronto and Vancouver offset weakness in Calgary.

Mortgage applications decreased 5% from one week earlier as, absent any rate incentive, activity slowed because of the holiday season, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

A property deal for hundreds of apartments near downtown San Jose has cleared the way for a major renovation of the property that will also ensure the preservation of affordable housing for decades to come at the complex.