Purchase

Mortgage applications increased 2.9% from one week earlier, rising for the first time in nearly a month with home-buying demand remaining unusually strong as summer ends, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Homebuyers are fleeing dense Bay Area neighborhoods for Wine Country environs, heating up a local real estate market rapidly recovering from a pandemic-induced slowdown.

As bidding wars raged on and mortgage rates remained near historic lows, housing market confidence grew in August, according to Fannie Mae.

More so than their colleagues nationwide, originators in the Southeast are concerned about how supply impacts their business.

Residential real estate has been a hot commodity in the Sioux City, Iowa, metro this summer, with prices and demand rising while interest rates and supply are low.

New Yorkers fleeing the city and cooped-up workers in cramped home offices are helping fuel a hot home sale market in Connecticut, with properties selling at a dizzying pace.

More than half of listings underwent bidding wars in August with some housing markets peaking above 65%, according to Redfin.

Broward had the most home sales in August compared to its neighboring South Florida counties.

Leslie DeLuca has been a real estate agent in Monterey County, Calif., for 20 years and thought she'd seen every fluctuation of the market.

Home purchase power increased by almost 7% annually in July as mortgage rates were at or near record lows.