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Home prices fell slightly in December, keeping values down by more than 10% from the peak reached before the crisis, according to a monthly report from Black Knight Financial Services.

Most millennials do almost all of their other business on a portable device, so they want to have this same functionality when buying a home.

Financial services firm Radian Group has hired Clifford Rossi to be its chief economist and senior vice president.

You'll need to earn more in San Francisco than throughout the rest of the country to afford a median-priced home.

The Real Estate Roundtable's quarterly Sentiment Index dipped slightly during the first quarter of 2015.

Lenders must carefully ensure that all potential motivations for advice, recommendations, and referrals are provided to borrowers, as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has positioned itself to utilize Unfair Deceptive or Abusive Acts Practices claims as an enforcement tool.

Although the new rules address many of the issues presented by non-borrowing spouses, one of the rules' principal shortcomings is that they do not sufficiently outline the rebalancing of principal that is often required to substitute these new borrowers.

Sales of previously owned homes fell more than expected in January as a tight supply forced up prices, showing the residential real estate market faces an uneven recovery.

A new program in California aims to help low- and moderate-income seniors with reverse mortgages on their homes to avoid foreclosure.

NMI Holdings, the parent company of National Mortgage Insurance Corp., reported a net loss again in the fourth quarter as it saw growth in new insurance written.