Housing

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities appreciated at a faster pace in the year ended in December, a sign that a limited supply is forcing up property values.

Home prices fell slightly in December, keeping values down by more than 10% from the peak reached before the crisis, according to a monthly report from Black Knight Financial Services.

Financial services firm Radian Group has hired Clifford Rossi to be its chief economist and senior vice president.

You'll need to earn more in San Francisco than throughout the rest of the country to afford a median-priced home.

Sales of previously owned homes fell more than expected in January as a tight supply forced up prices, showing the residential real estate market faces an uneven recovery.

The number of new households being formed has finally recovered post-recession, according to a new study from the University of Southern California.

San Francisco's much-maligned Housing Authority is getting out of the management business.

California has delivered less than half of $2 billion in federal aid to help victims of the housing crash.

Prospects have improved for homebuyers who were frozen out of the American dream by investors who plunked down cash to buy houses in distressed markets.

California's existing home sales remained in a squeeze in January, with limited inventory and rising prices cutting affordability, the California Association of Realtors reported.

Bay Area home sales posted their slowest performance in seven years last month.

Mortgage rates for 30-year loans rose to a seven-week high, increasing borrowing costs from close to historic lows.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued more than $651 million in Indian Housing Block Grants in February.

Home sales in January were lower than a year earlier due to tight inventory and higher home prices, according to Re/Max.

As a deep freeze grips parts of America in a typically slow season for housing, first-time buyers are flocking to Redfin Corp.'s property tours and classes, signaling their renewed interest in the market.

The housing boom rolling across central Philadelphia showed no signs of weakening last year, but a population exodus could be on the near horizon if little is done to fix the city's schools and tax structure.

Rent prices continue to surge like a red tide in the Tampa Bay area — something few welcome.

Donald Klepper-Smith, chief economist and director of research for New Haven, Conn.-based DataCore Partners, cautioned against reading too much into the decline in home sales when comparing 2014 to 2013.

Builders broke ground on fewer residential construction projects in January as demand for single-family homes cooled from an almost seven-year high, signaling the rebound in housing remains uneven.

Chicago's Federal Home Loan Bank has given Forward Community Investments, a Wisconsin nonprofit, a loan to support the organization's community development endeavors.