Economy

Maui condominium sales and prices surged in September as home buyers pursued more affordable housing options.

A rebound in homebuilders' confidence to a five-month high indicates concern over fallout from major hurricanes has been alleviated, according to data from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo.

Rising home prices, wages that haven't kept pace with those increases and high levels of student debt are forcing first-time home buyers on Long Island, N.Y., to find creative ways to afford the biggest purchase of their lives.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma affected new-home sales in Texas and Florida, resulting in a 7.5% year-over-year decline in mortgage applications to purchase these properties in September.

With issuance of marketplace securitizations now exploding — rising 300% cumulatively in the past two years — the idea of online lending as a niche is quickly deteriorating.

California faces a different set of housing challenges from other U.S. areas that are reeling from recent natural disasters.

While the DFW home market is still good or even great compared to a lot of places around the nation, things have definitely cooled a bit from the last few years.

For buyers now house hunting in metro Toledo, Ohio, a word to the wise: Think very carefully about the offer you submit to a seller.

It's a renter's market in New York, and after a year of being bombarded with landlord offers of gift cards and free months, apartment seekers are getting bored with all the perks.

Fannie Mae is putting more than $2 billion in reperforming loans up for bid and also marketing a smaller package of more than $1 billion in nonperforming loans.

Hundreds of federally subsidized housing residents in Pittsburgh's East End are being forced from their homes because of squalid conditions.

Houston-area home sales bounced back in September after a double-digit decline in storm-battered August, when Hurricane Harvey flooding forced real estate offices to close and open houses to cancel.

The Tennessee bank said it has bought Professional Mortgage in Greenville, S.C., which services about $1.1 billion of commercial mortgage loans for 23 correspondent life company lenders.

A group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch unveiled a television and digital campaign that argues "corporate welfare" threatens Republican efforts to dramatically alter the U.S. tax code.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created in part to ensure that nonbanks are subject to federal oversight, but the fact is that 99% of banks are exempt from CFPB supervision.

Over 172,000 homes in Napa and Santa Rosa, Calif., are at some level of risk from wildfires, according to CoreLogic.

For families with household incomes below $50,000, the improving housing market in 2016 meant rising prices, and fewer homes and apartments they can afford to rent or buy, according to a report from HousingWorks RI.

The gap between what consumers think a home is worth and its appraised value narrowed in September because of rising prices due to the continued inventory shortage.

Overall housing confidence rose in September, with renters becoming particularly optimistic, according to Fannie Mae.

Both home sales and prices in North Texas were higher in September than a year ago. But the rate of increase is slowing, which analysts say is good for the market.