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San Mateo County, Calif., officials opted to spend $43.75 million over the next two years to boost the number of housing units geared at working families.

The old record was set just before the Great Recession, and what may be most remarkable is that it took nearly nine years to reach a new milestone.

As financial institutions look closer at the increasingly detailed consumer credit data available, they are learning consumers are more apt to pay off personal loans before mortgages, auto loans and credit cards.

Here's a look at the 12 cities where the number of affordable homes increases the most when buyers have a 20% down payment rather than only putting down 10%.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has taken pains to stress that the Trump administration isn't out to kill Americans' beloved mortgage-interest tax deduction — but a side effect of the plan could turn it into a perk for only the wealthy.

Goldman Sachs is marketing nearly $1 billion of commercial mortgage bonds backed primarily by office and retail properties.

An El Paso real estate investment trust, run by some of city's most successful business people, faces new allegations of fraud in a failed housing venture just as another lawsuit against the trust has been dismissed by a federal judge.

Only 32% of California households could afford to purchase the $496,620 median-priced Golden State home in the first quarter of 2017, according to a report issued by the California Association of Realtors.

All post-closing reviews of new Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgages must now use the defect taxonomy, effective immediately.

Unexpected declines in new-home construction and building permits in April indicate the market is off to a weak start this quarter.