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Recent home buyers found it easier getting a mortgage compared with last year's purchasers, but first-timers are being held back by a lack of inventory and student debt, according to a National Association of Realtors survey.

Just 0.69% of residential properties in Colorado have no one living in them. That blows away the national rate of 1.58%.

Home-price gains in 20 U.S. cities accelerated in August amid tight inventories and steady economic growth.

Lennar Corp.'s record takeover of CalAtlantic Group Inc. is a bullish sign for homebuilding in the U.S. Trade groups, meanwhile, worry that lawmakers are about to kneecap the industry.

U.S. home prices hit another new peak in August after just reaching a new high the previous month, according to Black Knight.

As Bay Area sales dwindled, in a reflection of the region's shrinking home supply, buyers continued to bid up the region's notoriously high prices.

Officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have started to develop a plan to provide housing to some of Puerto Rico's displaced population.

A flurry of new townhouses and suburban starter homes is helping boost homebuilding in the Twin Cities metro.

Commercial and multifamily originations are projected to surpass the 2007 market peak this year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Fannie Mae is testing a conforming loan product that makes use of a New Hampshire law that lets manufactured housing in resident-owned communities get treated like units in a co-operative building.

The Canyon 2 wildfire has been contained for more than a week, but aftereffects from the 9,200-acre conflagration still are rippling throughout Orange County, Calif.

A major mortgage insurance company has lowered the threat level for Dallas-Fort Worth's housing market.

Southern California's house hunters must move 23% faster this year to find a residence to buy.

A gauge of contract signings to purchase previously owned homes was unchanged in September at the lowest level since the start of 2016 as Hurricane Irma depressed sales in the Southeast and a limited number of listings restrained activity elsewhere.

A tightening job market and relatively low interest rates along with the inventory shortage means there is a slight probability that home prices will decline in the next two years.

Purchases of new homes unexpectedly surged in September to the highest level in a decade as activity accelerated in the South after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Legalizing the recreational use of marijuana has created jobs in Colorado, bringing people into the state and putting stress on its residential purchase and rental markets.

Home sales in greater Hartford rose for the fifth consecutive month, but prices fell the most of any month so far this year on year-over-year basis.

The 63,398 homes sold in the first nine months of this year in Wisconsin set a new record, but low inventory continues to vex buyers.

Continued economic growth, a strong jobs market and higher wages will lead to a 7.3% increase in purchase origination volume next year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.