Housing

Home price gains across the country are reducing the positive benefits homeowners will feel from low rates, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

A healthy housing market is expected to buoy purchase mortgage volumes this year, while rising rates will put a damper on refinancing, according to a report from rating agency DBRS.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway expanded its bet on residential real estate as his company's Clayton unit acquired Goodall Homes.

The House passed a bill Thursday that would authorize state insurance commissioners to approve flood insurance policies for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other federally backed mortgages.

Arch Capital had a 77% increase in the mortgage insurance segment's operating income, and its U.S. unit saw its new insurance written increase by 34%.

The nation's housing markets may be finally getting over the foreclosure crisis, but for many Americans the anger hasn't subsided.

Mortgage rates hitched a ride with rising Treasury yields this week, according to Freddie Mac.

Indianapolis is the best market for first-time homebuyers right now, according to research released Tuesday by Zillow.

Though parts of the country are still struggling to return to benchmark levels, many of the housing markets across the U.S. showed signs of improvement in February, according to Freddie Mac.

NMI Holdings lost $2.5 million in the first quarter, an improvement over a first-quarter 2015 loss of $7.8 million, which is a sign the private mortgage insurer remains on track to become profitable later this year.