Purchase

No one needs to tell Mike and Suzy Johnson that the Columbus, Ohio, housing market is hot.

Mortgage application activity increased 1.4% from one week earlier despite rising interest rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Dallas-area home prices were up 7.1% in May, according to a new report by CoreLogic.

Rising home prices threaten to chill one of metro Atlanta's most valuable selling points: the affordability of housing.

Want to buy an affordable house in the Sacramento area? Better get in line.

Homebuilders in the Twin Cities on Friday finished their best month in more than a decade.

President Trump's immigration policies are prompting more than half of Arabs, Asians and Latinos to reconsider their plans to buy or sell a home, according to a Redfin survey.

As competition drives home prices ever higher in the Bay Area, there is a whiff of good news for first-time homebuyers.

Here's a look at the 12 cities where the combination of prices and local wages offer homebuyers the best bang for the buck this house hunting season.

Defects and misrepresentations on mortgage applications rose 2.5% in May, reaching levels last seen in 2015, according to the First American Loan Defect Index

Mortgage application activity fell by 6.2% this week, driven by a 9% decrease in refinancings, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Seattle, Portland and Dallas are leading the country in home price gains since last spring with no slowdown in site.

All hair stylist Erin Bond wants is a decent two-bedroom condo in Orange County, preferably in Huntington Beach.

Prices of single-family homes in Santa Cruz County, Calif., soared to new records in May as the number of sales shrank.

Sustained increases for home prices in 20 U.S. cities in April indicate the housing industry is juggling stable demand with a shortage of inventory.

It's taken a decade, an oil spill and a national recession, but now could be the time for those who've waited until conditions improved to sell their home or land in South Mississippi.

Demand for single-family homes in the Inland Empire has fueled the strongest building activity in nearly a decade, though experts say the recent spike is nowhere near the intensity and volume of the mid-2000s.

Mortgage lender credit standards eased during the second quarter as purchase volume was lower than expected and competition increased, according to the Fannie Mae Lender Sentiment Survey.

Canadian officials are working to slow a rapid rise in home prices that's being attributed to tight inventory levels in the country's largest cities and is threatening to create a housing bubble.

Statewide home sales hit a record pace during May, edging up from April and besting the previous year's level.