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Mortgage Bankers Association President David Stevens is confident that housing finance reform will move forward under the Trump administration, but criticized calls to simply let the government-sponsored enterprises recapitalize and be returned to shareholders without additional reforms.

As a major force in the home buying economy, millennials are changing the game and Realtors are charged with keeping up.

A healthy economy and a shortage of housing inventory have helped drive single-family home sales for the month of March in Massachusetts to the highest it has been since before the recession a decade ago.

The Bay Area's housing supply may be low, but fierce competition among spring-season buyers continued to drive up home prices, which reached record highs in March in Santa Clara and Alameda counties.

Market rate developers would have to make 18% of rental units affordable to low- and moderate-income households under an ordinance the San Francisco Planning Commission approved.

The Louisiana company also said that credit quality in its energy portfolio improved during the first quarter.

The Trump administration's initial tax plan may be short on details, but a bipartisan bill offers some very specific relief for the commercial real estate industry.

The Louisiana agency that helps fund affordable housing developments across the state has revised its annual spending plan amid accusations from New Orleans housing advocates, developers and, most recently, Mayor Mitch Landrieu that the agency prioritized rural parishes over urban ones.

Home sales in Rhode Island fell by 1% in March, and the median price, $235,000, was up by 2%, but a 26% fallout in pending sales signals a further slowdown in the coming months.

Growth in commercial real estate loans is a big reason the New Jersey bank had a strong quarter.

The Seattle area has notched its sixth-straight month as the hottest real-estate market in the country, as prices climb even faster heading into the peak buying season.

Sales of existing homes in Wisconsin posted their best first quarter in at least a dozen years, the Wisconsin Realtors Association said.

Purchases of new homes unexpectedly increased in March to an eight-month high, indicating housing demand remained strong at the start of the spring buying season.

Housing costs -- both rents and home prices -- in the Metro Orlando area rose faster than in most metropolitan areas within the state and the nation in March from a year earlier, two new reports show.

Chicago home sales and prices rebounded strongly in March from a surprisingly sluggish February, just in time for the all-important spring housing season.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities accelerated in the year through February for a fifth month, while nationwide property values also picked up.

A consumer's home purchase power only fell by 0.2% in February from January because wage growth has somewhat offset price increases.

Retailers are filing for bankruptcy at a record rate as they try to cope with the rapid acceleration of online shopping.

Home prices reached their highest level since the recovery started, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

After months in the doldrums, the Miami-Dade real estate market showed signs of renewed life in March. But observers warned it could be short-lived.