Real estate

The lack of available homes, which drives up sales prices in Southern Nevada, continues to have an effect on the local rental market as well.

Essent Group Ltd., the Hamilton, Bermuda-based parent of Essent Guaranty, reported first-quarter net income of $66.6 million.

Driving the streets of Mitchell, S.D., and seeing for-sale signs throughout the city, Jesse Stroud is confident he'll find his next home soon.

With double-digit price appreciation returning to some Bay Area markets, we're used to hearing that the region's homeowners are a lucky bunch, richer by the minute.

Seasonal factors contributed to an 89,000-unit increase in the number of seriously delinquent properties in the first quarter from the fourth quarter of 2016.

You can't blame a homeowner in Fresno, Calif., for viewing the thriving metropolis to its northwest with both envy and dismay.

Real estate finance advisory services and technology provider Situs has purchased The Collingwood Group, a Washington advisory group staffed largely by former government mortgage agency officials.

As Nationstar Mortgage Holdings finalizes plans to change its name to Mr. Cooper, the nonbank lender and servicer is exploring options to part ways with Xome, the settlement services and real estate business it rebranded less than two years ago.

A multimillion-dollar incentive program announced by the state Wednesday will offer financial assistance to recent college graduates looking to buy homes in Oneonta and seven other upstate New York cities.

Despite the run-up in home prices in recent years, the values of most South Florida properties haven't returned to the heady days of the housing bubble, a new report shows.

No surprise here — a new study says that the housing recession is in Dallas-Fort Worth's rear view mirror.

Floridians will see smaller tax cuts this year than earlier plans envisioned, but voters will have a chance to give some homeowners a property tax break by increasing the homestead exemption.

For Twin Cities real estate agents, the gravy train was easy to catch.

As a major force in the home buying economy, millennials are changing the game and Realtors are charged with keeping up.

A healthy economy and a shortage of housing inventory have helped drive single-family home sales for the month of March in Massachusetts to the highest it has been since before the recession a decade ago.

The Bay Area's housing supply may be low, but fierce competition among spring-season buyers continued to drive up home prices, which reached record highs in March in Santa Clara and Alameda counties.

Market rate developers would have to make 18% of rental units affordable to low- and moderate-income households under an ordinance the San Francisco Planning Commission approved.

The Louisiana agency that helps fund affordable housing developments across the state has revised its annual spending plan amid accusations from New Orleans housing advocates, developers and, most recently, Mayor Mitch Landrieu that the agency prioritized rural parishes over urban ones.

Home sales in Rhode Island fell by 1% in March, and the median price, $235,000, was up by 2%, but a 26% fallout in pending sales signals a further slowdown in the coming months.

The Seattle area has notched its sixth-straight month as the hottest real-estate market in the country, as prices climb even faster heading into the peak buying season.