Homebuilders

Now that Akron, Ohio, has named the buyer, the estimated $20 million redevelopment of the CitiCenter Building joins a glut of downtown projects competing for private funding, public tax breaks and future tenants.

Beazer Homes USA is working to encourage competition among its approved lenders in order to help control upward pressure on home prices and lending rates that could slow sales.

After more than doubling local home starts in the last decade, don't expect Dallas-Fort Worth builders to increase construction by much in 2019.

Rising home prices and climbing mortgage rates pulled down affordability to the lowest point since before the housing market crash.

D.R. Horton Inc. fell the most in more than three years after executives at the builder said the market for homes is getting "choppy" and that the pace of order growth may slow next quarter.

Minnesota Housing will invest $87.5 million in 1,700 new and existing housing units for low-income Minnesotans this year.

Lennar Corp. is selling a portion of its Rialto business to Stone Point Capital for $340 million, adding to Stone Point's holdings in the real estate and financial industries.

After a massive fire gutted the Ice House townhome project in West Oakland recently — the latest in a series of suspicious blazes targeting residential construction projects — developers and housing experts say the fallout could ultimately hit the pockets of Oaklanders already struggling to rent or own homes in the city.

Despite rising mortgage rates and a dismal start to the fall, homebuilders in the Twin Cities are picking up the pace.

Purchases of new homes fell more than estimated in September to the weakest pace since December 2016, adding to signs that a lack of affordability is crimping demand, according to government data.