Housing

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.

Approximately two-thirds of foreign homebuyers during 2014 paid cash for their property.

Zillow Inc. completed its acquisition of rival real estate website Trulia Inc. and announced 350 job cuts as the combined company works to integrate operations.

One of the culprits in the building and bursting of the nation's housing bubble, the low-down-payment mortgage, is back in favor and readily available at a lender near you.

The Metro Orlando housing market experienced its seasonal cooling-down period in January, with prices and sales down from the previous month.

Leading economic indicators are favorable for a continued improvement in both the economy as a whole and the housing industry, and many midtier lenders will find their companies operating at a disadvantage when compared to larger firms that are approved to sell their production directly to the industry's largest investors.

Confidence among homebuilders decreased in February to the lowest level in four months as winter weather prevented some prospective buyers from touring new developments.

For over a third of millennials, first comes home then comes marriage, according to a recent study.

Not as many pricey homes sold on Maui last month, which dinged the statistics for median prices in a report by the Realtors Association of Maui.

The number of new Orlando-area homes priced at $150,000 or less shrank to just 282 during the fourth quarter.

Mayor Mike Duggan said that he is working with major investors to create a home-lending program to make it easier for Detroit homeowners to get mortgage-type loans to buy houses.

As home sales posted another gain in January, several other housing indicators suggested Houston's real estate market is cooling, an anticipated event in light of low oil prices and a growing roster of energy companies announcing layoffs.

Mortgage rates jumped from a 20-month low as the job market gained momentum.