Real estate

An emerging group of local entrepreneurs is taking up arms against the sky-high cost of living in the Bay Area, hoping to end once and for all the housing crisis crippling the region.

As employment and home prices reach and surpass previous levels of normal economic and housing activity, building permits continued holding markets back from hitting historic norms during the third quarter, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

Central Texas new-home construction surged to an 11-year high in the third quarter, the latest numbers show.

From Secretary Carson easing lending concerns to Fannie Mae announcing its expansion of Day 1 Certainty, here's a look at seven things we learned at the 2017 MBA Annual.

Denver's housing market continued to struggle with a frighteningly low number of homes and condos available for sale in October, which helped push up prices and cut into the pace of sales.

Seattle is now a full year into its reign as the hottest housing market in the country, an unusually long surge that doesn't look likely to end anytime soon.

San Diego had the third highest annual home price increase in the nation in August, a distinction not reached since 2014.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma were responsible for an increase in loan application defects during September in Texas and Florida, according to First American Financial Corp.

Homes on Staten Island are reaching "unaffordable levels," at a time when there are less homes on the market than buyers who want to purchase them.

The majority of out-of-state U.S. home buyers are looking to move south, according to LendingTree.

Recent home buyers found it easier getting a mortgage compared with last year's purchasers, but first-timers are being held back by a lack of inventory and student debt, according to a National Association of Realtors survey.

Just 0.69% of residential properties in Colorado have no one living in them. That blows away the national rate of 1.58%.

Home-price gains in 20 U.S. cities accelerated in August amid tight inventories and steady economic growth.

Lennar Corp.'s record takeover of CalAtlantic Group Inc. is a bullish sign for homebuilding in the U.S. Trade groups, meanwhile, worry that lawmakers are about to kneecap the industry.

U.S. home prices hit another new peak in August after just reaching a new high the previous month, according to Black Knight.

As Bay Area sales dwindled, in a reflection of the region's shrinking home supply, buyers continued to bid up the region's notoriously high prices.

A flurry of new townhouses and suburban starter homes is helping boost homebuilding in the Twin Cities metro.

A major mortgage insurance company has lowered the threat level for Dallas-Fort Worth's housing market.

Southern California's house hunters must move 23% faster this year to find a residence to buy.

A gauge of contract signings to purchase previously owned homes was unchanged in September at the lowest level since the start of 2016 as Hurricane Irma depressed sales in the Southeast and a limited number of listings restrained activity elsewhere.