Purchase

Home prices rose to all-time high levels in each of the last two months in the Buffalo Niagara, N.Y., region.

Newly constructed home purchase mortgage applications were down by 12% compared with June, but the data indicates housing starts won't drop as much as expected.

Affordability concerns influenced a consumer's decision to search for a home in a different city, a Redfin study found.

Just as Toronto's housing market is beginning to slow down, Vancouver’s is roaring back to life.

Home sales and prices in the Baltimore region rose in July as housing inventory continued to dwindle, limiting buyers' choices.

FHA loans made to millennial home buyers have been steadily decreasing the past four months, indicating they may be able to afford more at the moment.

Real estate in Miami-Dade continues to boom, with the total sales volume in the second quarter of 2017 reaching $3.3 billion — a 3.1% jump from $3.2 billion mark a year ago.

Oahu's more affordable option for homeownership is climbing in cost as median sales prices for condominiums hit historic highs, as evidenced in July.

Mortgage application volume increased 3% from one week earlier as slightly lower interest rates resulted in more refinance activity, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Low-down-payment purchases are on the rise, but not necessarily with the same pre-crisis practices and risk factors.

Resolute Forest Products is confident that U.S. import duties on softwood lumber won’t impact its future earnings because the Canadian company expects to be reimbursed for the levies paid.

For the first time ever, the median King County, Wash., home price has grown more than $100,000 in just a year, a new grim milestone for buyers already dealing with the hottest housing market in the country.

The percentage of people who said July was a bad time to buy a home increased to a survey high because of rising prices, according to Fannie Mae.

In June 2007, the Orange County, Calif., median home selling price hit $645,000 — a high point near the end of that era's crazy, risky lending and home buying insanity. In less than two years, a violent downturn slashed the typical local home's value almost in half.

Essent Group reported second-quarter net income of $72.1 million, an improvement from the $52.3 million of the same period last year.

The nonbank mortgage sector had its largest one-month employment gain in a year, as independent mortgage bankers and brokers enjoyed stronger-than-expected originations during the second quarter.

Old pastures, tired citrus groves and vacant land are quickly transforming into metro Orlando neighborhoods, with about 4,000 new houses underway during the most recent quarter, a new study shows.

Home sales in Connecticut got a bit of a pop in June, rising to their highest level for the month since 2006 and prices inched up modestly.

Home prices in Canada’s largest city posted their biggest monthly drop in at least 17 years in July and sales plunged as government efforts to cool the market and the near-collapse of a mortgage lender made buyers leery.

Housing construction in the Twin Cities metro rose nearly 17 percent in July, but most of that gain was apartments.