Purchase

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.

More consumers are looking to buy a home than ever before. And while new home sales are indeed picking up — data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed January's new home sales rate was 5.6% higher than a year earlier — new home construction still remains well below its pre-recession peak.

The median sales price for a single-family house on Oahu climbed in February to the second-highest level ever at $755,000.

The Houston-area housing market saw gains for the fifth consecutive month in February as buyers closed on 4,933 single-family homes.

Stewart Information Services Corp. is broadening its network of independent agencies.

Connecticut home sales in January were the highest in a decade for that month, but prices slipped compared with a year ago.

Application activity increased 3.3% from one week earlier, even though mortgage interest rates rose on speculation the Federal Open Market Committee could act in March.

While the inventory of new and existing homes is tight, competition for smaller homes is heating up as aging baby boomers are down-sizing and selling their residences.

Consumer attitudes toward the housing market turned decidedly rosier in February, according to Fannie Mae.

The steady pace of home price growth stretched into January, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic.

New Orleans metropolitan area home prices surged in the suburbs and slowed in the city center during the last half of 2016.