Real estate

Don't believe what you see on the cable shows — home flipping is a tough business.

The three federal banking agencies moved to raise the threshold for residential transactions that require an appraisal from $250,000 to $400,000.

Most South Florida median home prices continued their inexorable march upward in August, while the number of sales in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties declined year over year.

Maine homes have sold at a near-record pace this year through the month of August.

The number of single-family homes sold in the Tampa Bay area during August rose 2.8% when compared with the same month last year, according to Florida Realtors.

From Manhattan to Denver, here's a look at 12 housing markets with the highest monthly rent, making home buying potentially more attractive to consumers.

The dollar volume of financing to buy fix-and-flip properties increased 31% annually to its highest level since the heights of last decade's real estate boom, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Any progress made with loosening housing inventory was lost as a high demand of buyers scooped up homes from the market, but sales still slipped from a year ago, according to Remax.

Existing-home sales exceeded their market potential again in August, and the improvement may continue for some time before there's a correction, according to First American.

It would cost nearly $30 billion to rebuild the tens of thousands of homes that are most vulnerable to wildfires in the Sacramento metropolitan area, a projection that ranks California's capital region fourth highest in the nation for wildfire risk, according to CoreLogic.

Canadian home prices recorded their biggest gain in more than two years, and sales advanced for a sixth straight month in another sign of health in the country's real estate market.

Property values recovered, and in some cases even surpassed housing bubble peaks, but the same can't be said for waning new construction activity, which won't return to historic norms for years, according to Zillow.

If warning signs of a possible U.S. recession are currently flashing, Valeria Kremser doesn't see them in the Philadelphia housing market.

Reverse mortgages are surging in Canada as more older people join the country's debt bandwagon.

For the third time this year, the monthly median sale price for single-family homes hit a new high for Maui County.

Offerpad claims its upcoming program can help homebuyers move into a house within 24 hours of finding it, while the industry average move-in and closing time sits at 43 days.

An indictment unsealed in a Brooklyn federal court alleged four New Yorkers and one Floridian misled mortgage companies, the government-sponsored enterprises and a government agency regarding short-sale property prices.

For the first half of 2019, the real estate market in Billings, Mont., is looking strong, with local organizations noting a few aspects of the industry to keep an eye on.

Borrowers recovering from foreclosure might not be in as much hot water as perceived, with many maintaining healthy credit scores within a year, according to LendingTree.

A Pinellas County, Fla., Realtor with a controversial past faces possible revocation of his real estate license.