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California home sales increased 5% between December and January but the median transaction price fell by almost 9%, according to the California Association of Realtors.

More Americans today have no retirement savings and/or no personal savings than 18 months ago, a recent Harris Poll survey found.

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January's frigid weather didn't stop Houston's home buyers, who heated up the market with the first year-over-year increase in sales since June.

Multifamily housing starts took off like a rocket in January, rising 80% while single-family starts fell 1% during the month, according to new government figures released Wednesday morning.

Higher mortgage rates are starting to take their toll on the origination business.

The Federal Housing Administration is making it easier for existing FHA borrowers to qualify for a streamline refinancing while capping increases in the loan amount.

CoreLogic, the Santa Ana, Calif.-based analytics firm, believes existing home sales for all of 2010 may be 15% to 20% lower than reported by the National Association of Realtors.

Redwood Trust on Tuesday filed notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission, signaling its intention to sell a $292 million MBS backed by jumbo mortgages.

The CMBS delinquency rate for multifamily product tracked by Moody's jumped 121 basis points in January, marking the biggest increase seen in that property class since the Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town loan was added to its calculations in March 2010.