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It appears a relatively good time to be a homebuyer in the Portland, Ore., area.

Sentiment among homebuilders climbed to the highest in almost a year on stronger current sales momentum, adding to signs that lower mortgage rates are giving the industry a boost.

As the summer home-selling season comes to a close, the number of houses sold and the median price of those sales hit all-time highs for any August on record, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

A mortgage industry executive with ties to a firm penalized in a U.S. predatory lending crackdown is being considered by the Trump administration to run Ginnie Mae, according to people familiar with the matter.

For the first time this year, the inventory of homes for sale in Central Florida has dropped, leaving fewer homes for first-time buyers and others.

Home construction surged in August to the fastest pace since mid-2007 on more apartment projects and single-family houses, a welcome sign for the housing sector that has struggled to gain momentum.

Late last year, Santa Rosa residents Julian and Lisa Corwin wrote down on a whiteboard the money they had available to rebuild their home on Vintage Circle destroyed in the October 2017 Tubbs fire.

The housing market in the Twin Cities metro last month was a little less intense than it was last year at this time, with demand for the least-expensive houses still outpacing more expensive ones.

Seven real estate companies are now facing age-discrimination complaints over allegations they used advertisements posted on Facebook to filter out potential clients over a certain age.

Sales of previously owned homes rose in August to the highest in more than a year amid lower borrowing costs and sustained income gains, adding to signs the housing market is breaking out of a slump.