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Despite soaring home prices, other factors needed to inflate a housing bubble are absent from the real estate market. But experts warn falling home values and rising mortgage defaults are inevitable, even if conditions naturally cool off.

San Diego County home prices jumped 8.6% in February compared to a year ago, while sales remained tight as the region struggles with a shortage of homes for sale.

Southern California home prices continued galloping upward at double-digit rates in February amid a lopsided mismatch between the number of buyers and sellers.

The median sales price of existing single-family homes rose across the Sacramento region in February compared with the same month last year, while newly built homes accounted for a larger share of the region's residential real estate market.

CoreLogic will have to provide property data to Attom Data Solution's RealtyTrac unit for three additional years to resolve allegations it did not adhere to a 2014 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Home equity levels increased year-to-year in the fourth quarter of 2017 following a larger-than-expected surge in home prices during the past year.

More signs have that last year's market strength is kicking off a repeat in 2018 home prices.

Increased numbers of homeowners in Orlando — and most of Florida — fell behind on mortgage payments late last year, bucking national trends.

Though early-stage mortgage delinquencies inched up in December 2017, the serious mortgage delinquency rate hit its lowest point for the month of December since 2006.

Greensboro, N.C., home prices increased by 3.34% from January 2017 to January 2018, according to a report from CoreLogic.

First time home buyers are dealing with the worst of the nationwide housing inventory shortage, due to prices of entry-level houses growing at an even faster pace than other properties types, according to CoreLogic.

Bay Area home prices rose in January, and sales dropped again — continuing trends in one the nation's least affordable housing markets.

Sacramento County's median price for resale homes rose by nearly 14% in January compared to the same month last year, though the number of sales slumped from December in a typical seasonal pattern.

Marin County's already inflated housing market climbed even more in 2017, with the median price of all homes at $980,000, an 8.9% jump from the 2016 median of $900,000.

As inflation fears put upward pressure on 10-year Treasury bonds and mortgage rates nationally, borrowers could start to take more notice of what lenders are charging them locally.

The percentage of Marion County, Fla., mortgages that are behind on payments was greater in November than it was in November 2016. This could be a residual effect of Hurricane Irma.

Serious delinquency rates were up sharply in November in both Texas and Florida compared to a year ago, while lower in all other states but Alaska, according to CoreLogic.

Dallas-area home prices were 6.9% higher at the end of 2017 compared with a year earlier, according to a new report by CoreLogic.

Communication between all parties in the chain, from borrower through guarantor, is the best way to minimize mortgage losses after events like last year’s hurricanes and wildfires, according to servicers and federal officials.

Efforts to move out of the Bay Area continued in recent months, with 16,000 residents packing up and taking to the road for cheaper housing and new opportunities.