Economy

Home sales in Ventura County and throughout Southern California fell sharply from June to July, according to a report released by CoreLogic.

The Seattle-area home market keeps picking up steam, with prices rising faster than anywhere else in the country for the 10th straight month.

Houston’s hotel market, already the worst-performing in the U.S., is poised to take a further beating from Hurricane Harvey as the natural disaster creates chaos in a city that’s been reeling from low oil prices for the past three years.

As Downtown Boise's popularity as a residential neighborhood grows, housing prices are climbing beyond the affordable range for many people who want to live there.

Toledo is near the bottom of a list of the 300 best and worst real estate markets for 2017, but it is in the top 10 markets where people can buy the most home for the buck, two conflicting reports show.

Steady growth in home prices in 20 U.S. cities in June reflects a limited number of available houses for sale, according to S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data.

From San Francisco to Jackson, Miss., here's a look at the 12 cities where home sales are expected to be the weakest during the third quarter of 2017.

If mortgage rates rise slowly as the economy continues to grow, the impact from the Fed’s unwind on housing likely will result in a decline in refinancing activity.

Their immediate effort is to ensure colleagues and clients are safe and that banking services are available to hurricane victims. The next big issue is preparing for the financial hit banks and customers will take from wind and water damage.

Hurricane Harvey’s second act across southern Texas is turning into an economic catastrophe — with damages likely to stretch into tens of billions of dollars and an unusually large share of victims lacking adequate insurance.

U.S. home prices reached a new record high in June, with values increasing 5.5% since the beginning of the year, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will adjust their risk-sharing deals so that they can accommodate high loan-to-value loans refinanced under the programs replacing the Home Affordable Refinance Program.

Homeowners are eager to hold onto the ultra-low mortgage interest rates they were able to get after the crash, and they are leery about taking a chance on a move.

Google's effort to acquire a broad swath of downtown San Jose properties for a massive new tech campus is triggering a sharp jump in selling prices for commercial real estate in the area.

A midyear report says the average vacancy rate across the Twin Cities metro during the second quarter was just 2.4%, down slightly from last year and the previous quarter.

The family-owned real estate group affiliate has committed a significant amount of capital to growing the finance and investment side of the organization, which includes balance sheet lending.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is calling on the FDIC to hold a public hearing on SoFi's application for deposit insurance.

With Hurricane Harvey rapidly making its way toward the Texas coast, lenders and servicers have activated business continuity plans to accommodate pending transactions and provide options and support to existing borrowers affected by the storm.

Signs are mounting that rising home values are starting to close the door for more Americans, threatening to temper the momentum in residential real estate.

Sales of existing luxury condos (priced over $1 million) in Miami-Dade jumped 51.1% year-over-year in July.