Purchase

Only 3.5% of homeowners in Houston have taken out a second mortgage.

Skyrocketing home prices and fierce competition for jobs in the Golden State are prodding poor families to pack up and head to Texas.

There's no affordable homes left in Boulder County, according to a new affordability study.

The strongest pace of single-family homebuilding in nearly a decade drove residential housing starts to a four-month high in February.

Scant listings of houses for sale in the core Orlando market pushed up home prices by 2.6% during the one-month period of February.

Slim pickings put a lid on home sales in the Twin Cities metro last month, the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors said.

Confidence among homebuilders is the strongest since the mid-2000s housing boom as sales prospects improve despite rising mortgage rates.

Reflecting the post-election interest rate rise, closed purchase loans were 57% of February's total volume, according to Ellie Mae's Origination Insight report.

Prices for residential real estate on Maui were higher in February, but sale volume was mixed between single-family houses and condominiums.

Economic growth expectations remain the same despite the rate hike the Federal Reserve is expected to announce, Fannie Mae said Wednesday.

Mortgage applications increased 3.1% from one week earlier even as rates reached their highest level in three years, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Dramatic shifts in borrower expectations and a growing purchase market have elevated consumer-direct mortgages from a refi-driven channel to an alternative for staff-heavy lending to homebuyers.

Continuing a strong start to 2017, February mortgage applications for new home purchases grew 2.2% from a year ago.

New-home construction in Metro Orlando spiked 25% from a year earlier with the biggest boost in The Villages and communities near theme parks.

Home sales and prices in the San Antonio area continued to rise in February, but not at the quick pace that's marked the industry over the past year.

At a time when mortgage companies are adding both staff and automation to cater to borrowers' changing needs, one lender has developed a distinctive compensation plan that leverages servicing revenue to encourage retention and recruitment of top producing loan officers.

Although the Charlotte region's inventory of homes remains tight, February sales rose slightly over the same time last year as more sellers gained the confidence to put their properties on the market.

Hawaii tourism had another record year of arrivals in 2016, but statewide sales of homes typically bought by visitors barely budged.

North Texas home sales were 5% higher in February, with the most houses sold ever in the second month of any year.

Most millennials who don't own a home plan to buy one in the next five years, but many of those would-be buyers may not be saving enough for their purchase.