Coronavirus

The coronavirus market disruption actually caused the company's execs to speed up its return.

Now the shutdown has stretched into mid-June, effectively canceling the long-anticipated Memorial Day listings bonanza.

The coronavirus pandemic is driving rents down in San Francisco and across the region, reshaping a housing market that for the past decade has generated enormous profits for residential developers while displacing tens of thousands of workers from the inner Bay Area.

Some lawmakers fear that when forbearance plans and enhanced unemployment coverage expire, the consequences for mortgage borrowers still affected by the pandemic will be severe.

If delinquency rates rise, all four stand-alone firms would have a capital shortfall.

Looming economic uncertainties forced mortgage lenders to tighten underwriting standards in May.

Southern California housing markets are rebounding off what arguably was the worst April in the history books.

As brick-and-mortar shopping centers steadily lost market share to online competitors, the family behind three of the four biggest malls in North America built a thriving business by infusing their properties with heavy doses of entertainment.

Sales of single-family homes and condominiums on Oahu tanked in May as owners and buyers elected to practice social distancing.

The number of loans going into coronavirus-related forbearance slowed to a rate of 7 basis points between May 25 and May 31, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

After bottoming out at a 10-year low in April, consumer sentiment for home buying rebounded in May, according to Fannie Mae.

About 9% of government-insured loans in forbearance have low equity, which could hamper post-forbearance servicing.

A house in Cornwall, N.Y., goes on the market and has eight buyers check it out in one day. Two promptly offer the full price of $305,000, which the winning bidder later upped to $340,000.

Framework Homeownership CEO Danielle Samalin helped support consumer organizations after the housing bubble burst. Now she’s using that experience to help borrowers and homebuyers navigate new challenges.

When the coronavirus pandemic began in earnest in March, the Las Vegas real estate market was able to hold steady, thanks in part to an abundance of sales already in the pipeline.

With the impacts of the coronavirus in full bore, housing market experts predict home prices to fall in 2020.

After months of hiding out from the coronavirus, North Texas homebuyers are heading out to hunt for properties.

But there was an increase in private-label mortgages in forbearance.

Nonbank mortgage hiring inched down when overall employment plunged in April. The subsequent recovery in overall jobs suggests the housing-finance industry is still bearing up well despite coronavirus-related strain.

Eager buyers and reluctant sellers pushed Bay Area homes prices higher again in April, fueling quick sales and a robust market despite coronavirus restrictions.