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.

The Dallas area is among the U.S. home markets that have seen the most recovery in prices since the recession.

Poor families seeking affordable housing are better off in any other metro area than Las Vegas.

In Portland, as in other parts of the country, the recovery from the depths of the Great Recession has been profoundly uneven.

Dayton, Ohio, had the highest homeowner vacancy rate among major U.S. metro areas last year, according to Census data, but some experts said the statistic contradicts other indicators showing positive housing trends.

Nonbanks are gaining on their bank competitors when it comes to the market share of purchase loan originations.

Mortgage interest rates fell after four consecutive weeks of holding steady, according to Freddie Mac.

Soaring home prices have created market volatility that's making it difficult for appraisers to accurately pinpoint home values and putting mortgage approvals and home sales in jeopardy.

Simultaneous spikes in home prices and mortgage rates have put an unusual squeeze on borrowers' purchasing power and require lenders to be proactive about protecting their loan pipelines.

Guaranteed Rate is planning to hire 280 new employees through its revamped Liftoff training program.

Mortgage application activity increased by 5.8% during the week of Feb. 24.