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Census Bureau data shows that builders started 19,000 single-family attached houses in the quarter, up from 18,000 for the April-May-June period in 2012.

After dedicating 28 homes last year (the first on the reservation since 1972) the San Felipe pueblo has made considerably better time on its next development.

The members of the Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America did $13.0 billion of primary new insurance written in July.

El Paso changed underwriters to sell $61 million of bonds for a downtown baseball stadium after the first try failed.

A surge in borrowing costs to a two-year high is starting to cool demand from homebuyers as higher rates combine with surging prices to reduce affordability.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is considering a reduction in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's loan limits that is slated to kick in the first day of January.

LaTanya Moore-Newsome, a real estate agent with Century 21 in Atlanta, has been calling Wall Street-backed landlords for months on behalf of her low-income clients with government housing vouchers.

Zais Financial Corp., Red Bank, N.J., has purchased a residential mortgage loan portfolio with an unpaid principal balance of $98.2 million.

There was a 10 basis point decrease in the price of whole loans securing commercial mortgage-backed securities in July.

The Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey finds the average rate for the 30-year fixed rate loan is still 92 bps higher than it was for the same week last year.