Economy

The number of single-family homes sold in the Tampa Bay area during August rose 2.8% when compared with the same month last year, according to Florida Realtors.

From Manhattan to Denver, here's a look at 12 housing markets with the highest monthly rent, making home buying potentially more attractive to consumers.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is ending a Freddie Mac pilot that posed a competitive threat to the private market for mortgage servicing rights financing.

The dollar volume of financing to buy fix-and-flip properties increased 31% annually to its highest level since the heights of last decade's real estate boom, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Any progress made with loosening housing inventory was lost as a high demand of buyers scooped up homes from the market, but sales still slipped from a year ago, according to Remax.

Existing-home sales exceeded their market potential again in August, and the improvement may continue for some time before there's a correction, according to First American.

Freddie Mac is partnering with Finicity to give lenders access to a new automated process that advances efforts to consolidate borrower-authorized data validation checks used in the secondary market underwriting process.

The residential construction market is giving off conflicting signals about whether the nation is heading toward a downturn, according to BuildFax.

Lower rates and signs that more affordable housing inventory is being built drove Fannie Mae's 2019 origination numbers higher in its latest forecast.

It would cost nearly $30 billion to rebuild the tens of thousands of homes that are most vulnerable to wildfires in the Sacramento metropolitan area, a projection that ranks California's capital region fourth highest in the nation for wildfire risk, according to CoreLogic.

Canadian home prices recorded their biggest gain in more than two years, and sales advanced for a sixth straight month in another sign of health in the country's real estate market.

With the qualified mortgage patch expiring and a recession likely, wealth inequities that have hurt black and millennial homeownership could worsen, according to the National Association of Real Estate Brokers.

Property values recovered, and in some cases even surpassed housing bubble peaks, but the same can't be said for waning new construction activity, which won't return to historic norms for years, according to Zillow.

Banks in Denmark have seen their aggregate profits sink this year, according to calculations by the industry's main lobby group, which has repeatedly urged monetary policy makers to provide relief from long-term negative interest rates.

If warning signs of a possible U.S. recession are currently flashing, Valeria Kremser doesn't see them in the Philadelphia housing market.

Reverse mortgages are surging in Canada as more older people join the country's debt bandwagon.

For the third time this year, the monthly median sale price for single-family homes hit a new high for Maui County.

Offerpad claims its upcoming program can help homebuyers move into a house within 24 hours of finding it, while the industry average move-in and closing time sits at 43 days.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is revising the multifamily loan purchase caps for the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase affordable housing.

Whether Congress and/or the mortgage industry is able to untangle two opposing threads in the Trump administration's plans is anyone's guess.