Purchase

The median price of a single-family home in Marin County, Calif., hit a new high in May to $1.25 million.

Record prices for new homes amid a sales pickup indicate the supply of houses may be tight at the lower end of the market, pinching first-time buyers.

The housing market is looking a little top-heavy these days.

In summer 2007, the Los Angeles County median home price hit an all-time high of $550,000. It soon plunged as the housing bubble burst and the national economy crashed.

Homebuyers went on a shopping spree in Miami-Dade in May — and snapped up enough houses to set a new record.

The purchase mortgage share increased 15 percentage points in the first five months of 2017 to 68% of all closed loans in May, according to Ellie Mae.

A pickup in sales of previously owned homes signals the housing market is making progress despite inventory constraints that are sending prices to all-time highs.

Mortgage application activity increased slightly from one week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Traditional partnerships with lenders have been eroded by compliance strains and new incentives to control more of the homebuying transaction.

The market for existing-home sales underperformed its potential by 3.8% because of the inventory shortage, according to First American Financial Corp.

The young adult homeownership rate should increase by 1.5 percentage points over the next two decades as education attainment among racial and ethnic minorities continues to rise.

More homes went on the market last month than in any since 2008, a sign that the logjam that's characterized the Portland-area market in recent years could be breaking.

Metro Atlanta housing got a healthy dose of same-old, same-old in two new reports.

While home prices have increased sharply in expensive coastal cities, plenty of urban centers are lagging behind.

Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie has purchased the Cecil B. DeMille estate, a Los Feliz mansion once owned by the early filmmaker, for $24.5 million.

Comerica Bank will invest up to $5 million in Detroit Home Mortgage, which provides second mortgages to buyers so they can get past the city's appraisal gap problem.

The homeownership rate has been falling for over a decade, but there are now signs that the decline is decelerating and could end soon, according to researchers at Harvard University.

Three straight months of declines in new-home construction show homebuilding may weigh on second-quarter growth.

The number of homes sold in Northeast Florida rose last month, and so did the price they sold for.

Homebuilders might be starting to feel some pressures of scarce labor and rising prices as sentiment slipped to a four-month low in June.