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The country's largest real estate investors have bought a record $3.85 billion in property this year in the New York city borough and spent more than any other foreign country in the last decade.

A development team that includes a real estate investment arm of JPMorgan Chase is offering the ultra-wealthy a rare opportunity to build mansions bigger than the White House on a hillside overlooking Los Angeles.

Home prices nationwide rose 0.4% from June to July, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

In this slowing economic recovery, the housing market is showing signs of resilience but still faces long-term challenges, according to a report from Stifel Nicolaus & Co.

Fifth Third's mortgage division has launched the Community Reinvestment Mortgage Special, a program designed to cover closing costs for mortgage customers buying or refinancing homes in low-income areas.

Contract signings to purchase previously owned homes unexpectedly declined in August for just the second time this year, signaling residential real estate might have difficulty building on recent momentum.

Roughly 60% of borrowers who used a mortgage to buy a home in Des Moines during the first half of 2015 were aged 25 to 34.

Fannie Mae will be facing more competition in the HFA market as Freddie Mac and the FHLBs become more active.

In the communities hardest hit by the housing crisis, some credit policy loosening will be needed to help the recovery, according to Pro Teck Valuation Services.

Get ready for a wave of takeovers of U.S. publicly traded landlords.

Title agents nationwide are optimistic about the potential for an increase in home prices, according to First American Financial.

Sales of single-family homes and condos are on pace to reach an eight-year high this year, according to RealtyTrac's U.S. Home Sales Report for August.

Officials signaled that Hudson City Savings Bank's nearly $33 million settlement over redlining charges is only the first in what is likely to be a string of other cases.

Inclusionary housing policies can help reduce economic discrimination in neighborhoods that are gentrifying rapidly, according to a think tank's report.

Appraisers and appraisal management companies do important, and different, work. Their fees should be listed separately and transparently in the TILA-RESPA integrated disclosures.

Federal officials on Thursday ordered Hudson City Savings Bank to pay more than $27 million to resolve redlining allegations, the largest order of its kind and one that is likely to put larger banks on notice that redlining cases will be aggressively pursued.

The U.S. housing market continues to slowly stabilize, according to Freddie Mac's latest Multi-Indicator Market Index.

Purchases of new homes jumped in August to a seven-year high as Americans took advantage of historically low mortgage rates.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's method for detecting disparate impact discrimination can overestimate potential bias, resulting in higher payments for lenders cited by the agency, according to internal CFPB documents.

Senior home equity rose by $117 billion in the second quarter, compared to the previous quarter, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association.