Real estate

The tight rental market in Santa Fe, N.M., has always been an issue with those looking to work in the city or relocate here.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's Duty to Serve program must increase manufactured housing lending in rural communities.

Seattle has been leading the country in home price increases for a while. Now, no other region is even close.

Consumer views on the economy and finances are not to blame for the retreat in existing-home sales in four of the past five months, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The Rockford housing market continues to outpace the rest of Illinois in sales gains and year-over-year price increases, the Rockford Area Realtors said.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities climbed more than forecast in July, reflecting solid demand against a backdrop of modest listings of properties, figures from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller showed.

A second straight decline in purchases of new homes, combined with downward revisions for prior months, show a tepid market as results begin to be clouded by the fallout from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

The rate of growth in year-over-year home price appreciation stabilized in July, after accelerating throughout every month this year, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Here's a look at the 12 cities where homeowners who bought low during the housing crisis profited the most when they sold in 2016.

Homeownership paid big dividends for Southern Californians who have owned their residences since the housing recovery began five years ago.

Statewide home sales rose during August, despite a nationwide pullback in purchases of previously owned properties.

Wall Street analysts are keeping Dallas-Fort Worth on their watch list of markets where housing prices are out of whack.

Homeowners gained an average of $12,987 in equity from last year, with Western states leading the increase.

A lackluster supply of available homes is slowing sales across South Florida — but the shortage of listings also keeps pushing prices higher as buyers have little choice but to pay more for what they want.

Maine's housing economy got a late-summer boost in August, with year-over-year increases in both home sales volume and median sale price.

The market for potential existing-home sales declined in August, while Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are also expected to impact the market for home sales in the short term.

Central Texas home sales edged up only slightly in August, while the median home-sale price rose 4% to $300,000, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

Sales of existing homes in Wisconsin rose slightly in August from the same month a year ago, capping off what real estate professionals say was a good summer selling season.

Sales of previously owned homes declined to a one-year low in August as affordability continued to hamper demand and Hurricane Harvey caused a slump in Houston-area purchases.

Technology isn't a magic bullet for success, and just doing mortgages digitally doesn't change how the business fundamentally works.