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Mortgage applications waned for the fifth week in row, hitting their lowest levels in six months, as the summer's growing interest rates plateaued.

Homes in the Toledo, Ohio, area continued to sell quickly as they have done now for two years.

Confidence among homebuilders fell to an 11-month low in August on rising construction costs and shortages of skilled labor, a National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo report showed.

There would be over six million more new homes built in the last decade if new construction remained at the same pace prior to the housing boom, according to Zillow.

As housing affordability continues eroding on growing property values and mortgage rates, nearly a quarter of millennials believe they need to delay having children to afford a home purchase.

The investors initially won the right to sue as a group in 2015 before an appeals court reversed the ruling; the $13 billion lawsuit can now proceed as a class action.

The number of consumers being pursued by debt-collection agencies fell dramatically in the past year, but it's as much technicality as achievement, and bankers need to keep that in mind when reviewing the credit scores of millions of Americans.

The percentage of low down payment loans using private mortgage insurance continues to grow, and should continue as more first-time homebuyers get conforming loans, according to Keefe Bruyette & Woods.

Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group and Virginia Community Bank have agreed to back out of a merger that would have been a rare instance of a nondepository lender acquiring a depository institution.

For the first time in a year and a half, Washington is no longer the state with the hottest housing market in the country, though not because homes here have suddenly become cheap.