Real estate

A rebound in homebuilders' confidence to a five-month high indicates concern over fallout from major hurricanes has been alleviated, according to data from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo.

Rising home prices, wages that haven't kept pace with those increases and high levels of student debt are forcing first-time home buyers on Long Island, N.Y., to find creative ways to afford the biggest purchase of their lives.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma affected new-home sales in Texas and Florida, resulting in a 7.5% year-over-year decline in mortgage applications to purchase these properties in September.

California faces a different set of housing challenges from other U.S. areas that are reeling from recent natural disasters.

While the DFW home market is still good or even great compared to a lot of places around the nation, things have definitely cooled a bit from the last few years.

For buyers now house hunting in metro Toledo, Ohio, a word to the wise: Think very carefully about the offer you submit to a seller.

It's a renter's market in New York, and after a year of being bombarded with landlord offers of gift cards and free months, apartment seekers are getting bored with all the perks.

Houston-area home sales bounced back in September after a double-digit decline in storm-battered August, when Hurricane Harvey flooding forced real estate offices to close and open houses to cancel.

A group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch unveiled a television and digital campaign that argues "corporate welfare" threatens Republican efforts to dramatically alter the U.S. tax code.

Over 172,000 homes in Napa and Santa Rosa, Calif., are at some level of risk from wildfires, according to CoreLogic.