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Home prices rose 6.1% in October from a year earlier, representing 32 consecutive months of appreciation, according to CoreLogic.

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New homes sold at a slower pace than forecast in October as builders focused on meeting demand at the upper end of the market.

Contracts to purchase previously owned homes unexpectedly dropped in October as tighter credit and weak wage gains held back would-be buyers.

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More property owners are jumping on a drop in financing costs and loosening terms to pay off their mortgages.

According to Home Mortgage Disclosure and Mortgage Bankers Association data, independent, nonbank mortgage lenders originated 40% of the home purchase loans made in 2013.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities advanced at a slower pace in the 12 months through September as the housing market continued to make gradual progress.

Altisource Portfolio Solutions, a mortgage technology company in Luxembourg, has acquired Owners.com, an online property listings service in San Francisco, for $20 million.

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Giving roughly 5 million immigrants at least temporary relief from deportation could conceivably ease lenders' and borrowers' qualms about mortgages to undocumented workers who qualify with individual taxpayer identification numbers.

Bond investors are wresting higher yields from landlords in the fledgling business where rental homes are financed by credit markets.

The number of mortgages refinanced grew by four percentage points in October from September, according to an Ellie Mae report.

October housing sales figures in California remained tepid despite the lowest mortgage rates in 18 months, according to a new report from the California Association of Realtors.

Purchases of previously owned U.S. homes unexpectedly rose in October to a one-year high as low borrowing costs helped sustain the recovery in residential real estate.

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Groundbreaking for single-family homes climbed in October and permits for all future projects reached a six-year high to signal construction will add to economic growth in early 2015.

TD Bank's first Consumer Borrowing Index found that only about half of Home Equity Line of Credit borrowers are using their loan for home improvements.