Real estate

After five months of shopping for his first home, Greg Ridenour was tired of having his offers turned down.

Home sales in Connecticut were unexpectedly strong in May after the year got off to a slow start, a new report Thursday shows, but a key component of the state's housing recovery is still lagging: consistent overall price gains.

National home prices rose 6.6% in May over the prior year as sales activity was affected by low inventory, according to CoreLogic.

Halfway through 2017, home sales remain robust in the Santa Fe, N.M., market, with closed transactions up more than 9% through June and median prices in both the city and county up over last year's numbers.

No one needs to tell Mike and Suzy Johnson that the Columbus, Ohio, housing market is hot.

Dallas-area home prices were up 7.1% in May, according to a new report by CoreLogic.

Rising home prices threaten to chill one of metro Atlanta's most valuable selling points: the affordability of housing.

Want to buy an affordable house in the Sacramento area? Better get in line.

Homebuilders in the Twin Cities on Friday finished their best month in more than a decade.

President Trump's immigration policies are prompting more than half of Arabs, Asians and Latinos to reconsider their plans to buy or sell a home, according to a Redfin survey.

Workers across Washington and the Seattle area finally got a good pay hike last year, and yet it didn't amount to much compared with the state's soaring cost of housing, which led the nation last year.

A proposed ordinance in one California city would require developers planning residential projects costing $100,000 or more to pay an affordable housing impact fee.

As competition drives home prices ever higher in the Bay Area, there is a whiff of good news for first-time homebuyers.

Mortgage rates this week reached their lowest level so far in 2017, but are highly likely to increase over the next few days, according to Freddie Mac.

Here's a look at the 12 cities where the combination of prices and local wages offer homebuyers the best bang for the buck this house hunting season.

Seattle, Portland and Dallas are leading the country in home price gains since last spring with no slowdown in site.

All hair stylist Erin Bond wants is a decent two-bedroom condo in Orange County, preferably in Huntington Beach.

Guarantors may be the most glaring omission in the glitzy city lifestyle captured by popular sitcoms.

Prices of single-family homes in Santa Cruz County, Calif., soared to new records in May as the number of sales shrank.

Sustained increases for home prices in 20 U.S. cities in April indicate the housing industry is juggling stable demand with a shortage of inventory.