Purchase

Millennials are unfazed by the short supply of starter homes in a competitive market based on the rising share of December's purchase mortgages, according to Ellie Mae.

King County's cooling housing market has turned downright chilly as prices have dropped to their lowest point in two years — with the median home now selling for $116,000 less than last spring.

Home sellers in metro Denver came out ready to play ball in a big way in January, but buyers didn't show up to meet them in equal numbers.

Consumers have higher household incomes and more faith in cooling home price and mortgage rate growth than they did a year ago, which could allude to a stabilized housing market in 2019, according to Fannie Mae.

Mortgage rates fell to their lowest level in 10 months, bringing good news for house hunters as spring's home buying season approaches, according to Freddie Mac.

The median sales price for existing single-family homes sold in Southern Nevada in January was $300,000, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

Two Alabama cities lead the nation in several categories according to a study charting the best cities in which to buy a home based on the buyer's occupation.

To bring millennials to the table, mortgage lenders must overcome misconceptions about the role technology plays in the way this generation buys homes.

Older Americans' growing propensity to stay in one place as they age may be keeping nearly 15% more homes off the market than in the past, according to Freddie Mac.

Fourth-quarter increases in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage origination volume helped Walker & Dunlop reach a new quarterly high in revenue of $215 million.

Mortgage applications decreased 2.5% from one week earlier, even as interest rates fell to their lowest levels in 10 months, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Inventory deficiency and affordability issues kept sales down and hampered home price growth, according to CoreLogic.

Nearly a quarter of Denver-area residents looking for a home on Redfin.com are conducting their searches outside the metro area, and Seattle continues to provoke the most yearning.

The number of homeowners participating in an expanding down payment assistance program offered by Wells Fargo and NeighborWorks could top 20,000 this year.

Better credit quality and the influx of refinancing during the low interest rates of the last few years pushed mortgage performance to the highest levels since the turn of the century, according to Black Knight.

After years of frenzied price increases, sales of new homes in Canada's biggest city sunk to the lowest in almost two decades in 2018 and the supply of unsold condos piled up.

In Baltimore, single women own about 24% of all owner-occupied homes in the city, outnumbering single male homeowners, who account for about 11%, according to a LendingTree report.

The seven-year fever driving up Bay Area home prices may finally be breaking.

Homebuilders are growing confident in 55+ communities, which could suggest more movement in the housing market at a time when homeowners continue aging in place.

Without the clashing fervor of potential homebuyers competing, fewer sellers are fetching above-listing prices on their houses, according to Zillow.