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Metro Atlanta housing got a healthy dose of same-old, same-old in two new reports.

While home prices have increased sharply in expensive coastal cities, plenty of urban centers are lagging behind.

Comerica Bank will invest up to $5 million in Detroit Home Mortgage, which provides second mortgages to buyers so they can get past the city's appraisal gap problem.

Louisiana landlords with rental houses walloped by 2005's Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were eventually promised state help to rebuild: If they could get loans to rehab their properties, the state government would later reimburse them.

Odd though it may seem, Los Angeles is too lucky for its own good.

The homeownership rate has been falling for over a decade, but there are now signs that the decline is decelerating and could end soon, according to researchers at Harvard University.

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

Granite Point Mortgage Trust is selling 10 million shares of common stock in an initial public offering to be priced between $20 and $21 per share.

The number of homes sold in Northeast Florida rose last month, and so did the price they sold for.

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.

LendingTree has added property valuation data to its My LendingTree site, showing consumers how much equity in their home they can tap.

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.

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10% this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions.

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

The gap between what homeowners believe their home is worth and what the actual value widened for the sixth consecutive month in May, according to Quicken Loans.

Home sales and prices in the Baltimore area continued to climb in May, as buyers vied for properties in a market with historically low inventory.

Following the lead of other California cities, Mayor Eric Garcetti two years ago proposed charging a fee on construction and using those funds to build affordable housing in Los Angeles.

Median prices for single-family houses and condominiums on Maui increased by double-digit percentages in May as low inventory prompted buyers to snap up properties at a rapid pace.

The parent of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services said it had acquired 1st Priority Mortgage Inc. and Nothnagle Home Securities, completing the last stage of its purchases of RealtyUSA and Nothnagle Realtors.