Real estate

Appraiser and homeowner opinions on home values continue to converge, with the gap between the two viewpoints narrowing for the fifth consecutive month.

A real estate agent allegedly duped two home buyers into thinking they had purchased a Boynton Beach, Fla., residence but instead pocketed their down payment and monthly payments, according to an arrest report.

Baltimore-area home sales and prices continued their upward climb in October, as inventory contracted for the 26th consecutive month.

Home prices have returned to the boom levels of 10 years ago, which originally signaled the bursting of the housing bubble and the onset of the Great Recession, but today's market is notably different, according to realtor.com.

As Congress debates tax reform and which deductions to remove, a majority of homeowners from both parties worried that rising property taxes could force them to sell.

After nearly five years of being the nation's least affordable housing market, San Francisco was surpassed by another California city as the national median home price increased, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index.

Two months after Hurricane Harvey, buyers in the Houston area are returning to the housing market in impressive numbers.

A new city program approved by the Chicago City Council will offer vacant lots to affordable housing developers for $1 each.

The supply-demand outlook in commercial real estate markets took a slight dip nationwide for the first time since early 2016 and financing for some CRE property types is getting more difficult to arrange.

With home values projected to rise in every major U.S. metro in 2018, a 20% down payment will cost thousands of dollars more, according to Zillow.