Purchase

Home sales in the San Antonio area rose for the sixth straight month as prices continued increasing and the inventory of available houses kept tightening.

Applications for loans on newly built homes are still up considerably from a year ago, but they were down a little from October in the Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest survey.

The industry is now likely to top 2019's nearly $16 billion in premiums written.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has done nothing to quell the upward trajectory of home prices in Southern Nevada.

The likelihood of a purchase-focused market in 2021 means it’s time to make time to improve operations, LodeStar Software Solutions CEO Jim Paolino says.

Mortgage application activity decreased 1.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis last week, but refinance volume picked up as interest rates reached a new survey low, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Despite an unpredictable year, one degree of normalcy has returned to Seattle-area home sales: In a dip typical of the winter season, fewer homes were on the market in November and fewer new sellers were listing.

Employment worries and the pandemic's ongoing obstacles for home buying wore down consumer confidence in November, according to Fannie Mae.

Strong demand by buyers bidding above asking price helped push up the median resale price of single-family homes on Oahu to $872,500 in November, the second highest ever.

Set alight by the Fed’s low interest rates and bond purchases, the mortgage industry is on fire.

The money lenders are making on each home loan hit another survey-record high in the third quarter, but it may not be quite as high going forward.

The results are in the middle of the range provided before the company went public in October.

The head of the Federal Housing Administration said Congress should consider whether to continue allowing the loan floor and ceiling to remain tied to changes in the conforming mortgage limit.

Mortgage applications decreased 0.6% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier as the period was truncated by the Thanksgiving holiday, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

This fall's red-hot housing market in Duluth, Minn., has more than made up for time lost to the pandemic this spring.

October's annual appreciation rate was at its fastest since April 2014, CoreLogic said.

Tough competition for home listings makes consumers more likely to misrepresent themselves on loan applications.

Metro Denver's housing market seems unstoppable, setting record after record in the resale market and leading the country for the gain in pending new home sales.

A gauge of contract signings to purchase previously owned homes unexpectedly declined for a second month in October as higher prices and a limited number of listings impeded momentum in the housing market.

Oklahoma City area homebuilders are building more houses than they have in seven years, but the market keeps soaking them up, as well as previously owned homes — amid a pandemic and rolling business shutdowns.