Appraisals

Home prices continued to climb in April as Southern Nevada now has less than a two-month supply of homes available for sale.

Residential property in the city is becoming more valuable — a fact that could drive up potential sale prices for many city residents, but also could raise their property tax bills.

The gap between what homeowners believe their home is worth and what the actual value widened for the fifth consecutive month in April, according to Quicken Loans.

Here's a look at the 12 markets where rising home prices, along with shifts in wages and interest rates, have combined to put the most downward pressure on consumers' purchasing power.

North Texas home prices hit another all-time high in April.

The median sales price for condominiums on Oahu hit an all-time high in April as more buyers appeared to opt for condos while the supply of single-family homes remained low, the president of the Honolulu Board of Realtors said.

U.S. securities regulators are investigating whether bonds backed by single-family rental homes and sold by Wall Street's biggest residential landlords used overvalued property assessments.

ExactBid has released new automation that allows exchanges of information between its lender appraisal-workflow technology and its appraiser reporting system.

Median prices for homes sold on Hawaii island and Kauai in April were mostly flat or down, as was the volume of sales in the two neighbor island housing markets.

The lack of available homes, which drives up sales prices in Southern Nevada, continues to have an effect on the local rental market as well.