Economy

Although the Charlotte region's inventory of homes remains tight, February sales rose slightly over the same time last year as more sellers gained the confidence to put their properties on the market.

Hawaii tourism had another record year of arrivals in 2016, but statewide sales of homes typically bought by visitors barely budged.

Wall Street speculators are zeroing in on the next U.S. credit crisis: the mall.

Nondepository mortgage companies cut 1,500 full-time employees from their payrolls in January, ending 10 consecutive months of job growth.

Two Memphis agencies heavily reliant on Department of Housing and Urban Development funding could face deep, far-reaching cuts if the Trump administration slices $6 billion from HUD's budget.

North Texas home sales were 5% higher in February, with the most houses sold ever in the second month of any year.

Freddie Mac is preparing a transaction that transfers credit risk on $640 million of super-conforming residential mortgages.

More consumers are looking to buy a home than ever before. And while new home sales are indeed picking up — data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed January's new home sales rate was 5.6% higher than a year earlier — new home construction still remains well below its pre-recession peak.

The median sales price for a single-family house on Oahu climbed in February to the second-highest level ever at $755,000.

The Houston-area housing market saw gains for the fifth consecutive month in February as buyers closed on 4,933 single-family homes.

Lenders started and completed more foreclosures in Worcester County, Mass., during January than they did at the same time last year.

Connecticut home sales in January were the highest in a decade for that month, but prices slipped compared with a year ago.

Most real estate closings are routine for Tom Hundman, a managing attorney with the Frontier Title Co. of Bloomington, Ill., so when something doesn't appear right, he knows to check into it.

While the inventory of new and existing homes is tight, competition for smaller homes is heating up as aging baby boomers are down-sizing and selling their residences.

The area housing market is whispering optimism in the new year. Prices are moving up. Inventory is balanced. Foreclosures are down.

The steady pace of home price growth stretched into January, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic.

New Orleans metropolitan area home prices surged in the suburbs and slowed in the city center during the last half of 2016.

Florida's leading real estate industry group cautioned members against replying to a "Final Notice" bill from the Florida Board of Realtors.

Fannie Mae has selected electronic document management vendor eOriginal to host the government-sponsored enterprise's new electronic vault.

Bankers oppose legislation that would let local governments finance energy efficiency projects with liens ahead of the mortgage.