Economy

Affordability concerns influenced a consumer's decision to search for a home in a different city, a Redfin study found.

Just as Toronto's housing market is beginning to slow down, Vancouver’s is roaring back to life.

Home sales and prices in the Baltimore region rose in July as housing inventory continued to dwindle, limiting buyers' choices.

Apparently, the finance department of the San Francisco Housing Authority can't balance its own checkbook.

Picking a new benchmark for adjustable-rate mortgages is the easy part. Industrywide implementation is where things get tricky.

The New York City Council voted to rezone about 78 blocks of east Midtown Manhattan, enabling an aging building stock to be replaced by newer, larger and taller office towers.

If there's one word that comes up more than any other in the Seattle-area housing market, it's probably "bubble."

Real estate in Miami-Dade continues to boom, with the total sales volume in the second quarter of 2017 reaching $3.3 billion — a 3.1% jump from $3.2 billion mark a year ago.

With condominium lending rising, CoreLogic is now offering lenders self-service access to its condominium project review data service.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency promoted Andre Galeano to oversee its regulation and supervision of the 11 Federal Home Loan banks.

Farmer Mac's second-quarter net earnings increased 46% year-over-year, driven by a boost in net interest income that was enhanced by its growing loan and securities portfolio.

Oahu's more affordable option for homeownership is climbing in cost as median sales prices for condominiums hit historic highs, as evidenced in July.

A Denver-based real estate company specializing in affordable multiunit family and senior housing has bought several low-income or senior housing units in central Maine for $21 million and expects to renovate the properties.

Homeowners continue to view their property value higher than appraisers do, while homeowners in areas experiencing rapid growth may be more likely to underestimate their home's worth.

People 55 and older own 53% of U.S. owner-occupied houses, the biggest share since the government started collecting data in 1900.

The 1999 Avenue of the Stars tower in the Century City submarket is part of a second Goldman Sachs CMBS transaction, and is the largest loan in the new 2017-GS7 portfolio.

Low-down-payment purchases are on the rise, but not necessarily with the same pre-crisis practices and risk factors.

PHH Corp. will pay the Justice Department $75 million to settle a False Claims Act investigation of its underwriting practices on government-insured mortgages and loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

For the first time ever, the median King County, Wash., home price has grown more than $100,000 in just a year, a new grim milestone for buyers already dealing with the hottest housing market in the country.

The mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could need nearly $100 billion in bailout money in the event of a new economic crisis, according to stress test results released Monday by their regulator.