Real estate

It's taken a decade, an oil spill and a national recession, but now could be the time for those who've waited until conditions improved to sell their home or land in South Mississippi.

Demand for single-family homes in the Inland Empire has fueled the strongest building activity in nearly a decade, though experts say the recent spike is nowhere near the intensity and volume of the mid-2000s.

Mortgage lender credit standards eased during the second quarter as purchase volume was lower than expected and competition increased, according to the Fannie Mae Lender Sentiment Survey.

Canadian officials are working to slow a rapid rise in home prices that's being attributed to tight inventory levels in the country's largest cities and is threatening to create a housing bubble.

Statewide home sales hit a record pace during May, edging up from April and besting the previous year's level.

The median price of a single-family home in Marin County, Calif., hit a new high in May to $1.25 million.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to property-rights advocates, ruling against four siblings who said they were unconstitutionally barred from building on a Wisconsin riverfront lot.

Record prices for new homes amid a sales pickup indicate the supply of houses may be tight at the lower end of the market, pinching first-time buyers.

The housing market is looking a little top-heavy these days.

In summer 2007, the Los Angeles County median home price hit an all-time high of $550,000. It soon plunged as the housing bubble burst and the national economy crashed.

Homebuyers went on a shopping spree in Miami-Dade in May — and snapped up enough houses to set a new record.

The purchase mortgage share increased 15 percentage points in the first five months of 2017 to 68% of all closed loans in May, according to Ellie Mae.

Apartments in Albuquerque are in high demand as occupancy rates remain strong and rent continues to climb.

A pickup in sales of previously owned homes signals the housing market is making progress despite inventory constraints that are sending prices to all-time highs.

Traditional partnerships with lenders have been eroded by compliance strains and new incentives to control more of the homebuying transaction.

The market for existing-home sales underperformed its potential by 3.8% because of the inventory shortage, according to First American Financial Corp.

More homes went on the market last month than in any since 2008, a sign that the logjam that's characterized the Portland-area market in recent years could be breaking.

Metro Atlanta housing got a healthy dose of same-old, same-old in two new reports.

Comerica Bank will invest up to $5 million in Detroit Home Mortgage, which provides second mortgages to buyers so they can get past the city's appraisal gap problem.

The homeownership rate has been falling for over a decade, but there are now signs that the decline is decelerating and could end soon, according to researchers at Harvard University.