Real estate

Banks are increasing their construction lending to builders but access to land acquisition and development loans remains tight.

A growing economy during the first quarter meant that the U.S. housing market as a whole moved toward buying a home versus renting, an indication of soundness, according to a quarterly report put together by professors at two Florida universities.

Cash sales are falling overall, but still represent the majority of sales involving homes in the lowest tier of property values, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Increased loan production during the spring home buying season has nonbank mortgage lenders stepping up their hiring.

Falling interest rates and a shortage of housing inventory are heating up the market for home flippers. Here's a look at the housing markets where the home flip share of property sales set new records during the first quarter.

MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, is increasing bets on real estate as the company scales back investments in hedge funds.

Step aside, spring. Summer is becoming the new hot season for home buying, according to a Florida Atlantic University economist.

Home prices nationwide in March were just 3.8% down from their June 2006 peak, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Homebuyers are growing more worried about competition from other buyers, but housing affordability remains their No. 1 concern, a survey by the real estate brokerage Redfin found.

Miami’s crop of new condo towers, built with big deposits from Latin American buyers and lots of marketing glitz, are opening with many owners heading for the exits.

Homes owned by single men are more valuable and appreciate faster than properties owned by single women, according to an analysis from RealtyTrac.

U.S. home prices rose 5.7% in the first quarter from a year earlier as buyers competed for a limited supply of listings.

Median investment home prices are rising thanks to all-cash sales, according to a report from the online real estate investment management firm HomeUnion.

Home values rose 5% from a year earlier to a median of $187,000 in April, Zillow said Tuesday. That’s well above the 2% increase in home values the Seattle data company had predicted.

Home prices rose 2.1% from a year earlier in March when taking into account consumers’ buying power, less than half as much as the raw number, First American Financial Corp. said.

Toll Brothers Inc., the biggest U.S. luxury-home builder, reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat expectations, signaling that the market for costly homes is holding up.

Purchases of new homes in the U.S. surged in April to the highest level since the start of 2008, pointing to a robust spring selling season for builders.

Here's a look at the 10 markets with a population of more than 500,000 that had the largest growth in home sales activity on a per capita basis during the first quarter, based on data from RealtyTrac.

Ares Capital, the publicly traded lender managed by alternative-investment firm Ares Management, will acquire American Capital Ltd. in a deal valued at $3.4 billion.

Home sales growth has been tepid nationwide thanks largely to a cooling down of the housing market in the West, according to an analysis from Summit Valuations.