Homebuilders

The U.S. will impose further punitive tariffs on imports of softwood lumber from Canada, escalating a longstanding trade dispute that’s already led to higher timber prices.

Demand for single-family homes in the Inland Empire has fueled the strongest building activity in nearly a decade, though experts say the recent spike is nowhere near the intensity and volume of the mid-2000s.

Record prices for new homes amid a sales pickup indicate the supply of houses may be tight at the lower end of the market, pinching first-time buyers.

Three straight months of declines in new-home construction show homebuilding may weigh on second-quarter growth.

Homebuilders might be starting to feel some pressures of scarce labor and rising prices as sentiment slipped to a four-month low in June.

An Ames family will finally be able to call themselves homeowners, thanks to Habitat for Humanity of Central Iowa and a $50,000 grant from the Iowa Finance Authority Board of Directors.

New home purchase application activity bounced back in May as sales of these properties increased by 5.6% compared with April.

Wintrust Mortgage has committed to funding $40 million in below-market fixed interest-rate loans in the Chicago area through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity.

Houston-area homebuyers snapped up a record number of houses in May and drove the region's median sales price to unprecedented levels.

Houston will need more than 214,000 new apartment rental units by 2030 to meet demand from a population that is drifting from homeownership, according to a new study by the National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association.

For the first time in a decade, new-owner households created in the first quarter were higher than the creation of renter households.

A new tariff on Canadian lumber threatens to further disrupt homebuilding at a time when lenders are increasingly concerned about a purchase mortgage resurgence that has failed to materialize.

Unexpected declines in new-home construction and building permits in April indicate the market is off to a weak start this quarter.

There were fewer new home purchase loan applications in April, as year-over-year activity declined for the first time in 2017.

Mike and Elaine Morgan never envisioned moving from Butler Tarkington to a home just outside Sheridan, but that's where today's fast-paced housing market took them.

The Ventura County, Calif., housing market is enjoying a strong start to the spring selling season, but a lack of midrange housing inventory remains an issue that is pushing prices higher.

A healthy economy and a shortage of housing inventory have helped drive single-family home sales for the month of March in Massachusetts to the highest it has been since before the recession a decade ago.

Home sales in Rhode Island fell by 1% in March, and the median price, $235,000, was up by 2%, but a 26% fallout in pending sales signals a further slowdown in the coming months.

President Trump intensified a trade dispute with Canada, slapping tariffs of up to 24% on imported softwood lumber in a move that drew swift criticism from the Canadian government, which vowed to sue if needed.

American Financial Network has agreed to pay $5,000 to an unnamed person of Hispanic origin to settle a Fair Housing Act claim.