Real estate

Newly constructed home purchase mortgage applications were down by 12% compared with June, but the data indicates housing starts won't drop as much as expected.

Affordability concerns influenced a consumer's decision to search for a home in a different city, a Redfin study found.

Just as Toronto's housing market is beginning to slow down, Vancouver’s is roaring back to life.

Home sales and prices in the Baltimore region rose in July as housing inventory continued to dwindle, limiting buyers' choices.

The New York City Council voted to rezone about 78 blocks of east Midtown Manhattan, enabling an aging building stock to be replaced by newer, larger and taller office towers.

If there's one word that comes up more than any other in the Seattle-area housing market, it's probably "bubble."

Real estate in Miami-Dade continues to boom, with the total sales volume in the second quarter of 2017 reaching $3.3 billion — a 3.1% jump from $3.2 billion mark a year ago.

With condominium lending rising, CoreLogic is now offering lenders self-service access to its condominium project review data service.

Oahu's more affordable option for homeownership is climbing in cost as median sales prices for condominiums hit historic highs, as evidenced in July.

A Denver-based real estate company specializing in affordable multiunit family and senior housing has bought several low-income or senior housing units in central Maine for $21 million and expects to renovate the properties.

Homeowners continue to view their property value higher than appraisers do, while homeowners in areas experiencing rapid growth may be more likely to underestimate their home's worth.

People 55 and older own 53% of U.S. owner-occupied houses, the biggest share since the government started collecting data in 1900.

For the first time ever, the median King County, Wash., home price has grown more than $100,000 in just a year, a new grim milestone for buyers already dealing with the hottest housing market in the country.

Closed for nearly 30 years, the massive Michigan Central Station in Detroit is widely known for its ornate architecture and haunting emptiness and decay, but so far has missed out on the surge in redevelopment happening in the city.

The percentage of people who said July was a bad time to buy a home increased to a survey high because of rising prices, according to Fannie Mae.

In June 2007, the Orange County, Calif., median home selling price hit $645,000 — a high point near the end of that era's crazy, risky lending and home buying insanity. In less than two years, a violent downturn slashed the typical local home's value almost in half.

Old pastures, tired citrus groves and vacant land are quickly transforming into metro Orlando neighborhoods, with about 4,000 new houses underway during the most recent quarter, a new study shows.

Home sales in Connecticut got a bit of a pop in June, rising to their highest level for the month since 2006 and prices inched up modestly.

Home prices in Canada’s largest city posted their biggest monthly drop in at least 17 years in July and sales plunged as government efforts to cool the market and the near-collapse of a mortgage lender made buyers leery.

After launching construction lending support via Encompass in February, Ellie Mae sees shrinking construction loan closing times and increased volume.